HTML5 Gamepad API - Githubissues

SpliFF commented 7 years ago

Changes to allow the use of physical game devices such as gamepads and joysticks on browsers that support the HTML5 Gamepad API.

To use a physical gamepad select "Joystick" for either port in Config->Ports. The existing emulated joystick can be selected by choosing "Emulated" from the same dropdown.

Tested on:

Firefox 54 and Chrome 59 on Windows 7
Microsoft Edge 25 on Windows 10
Firefox 54 on Linux Mint 15

Known Issues:

Firefox requires a button on the controller to be pressed before controllers are detected
Chrome only detects connection events when you switch to another tab and return (seriously??)
Firefox calls devices "xinput" rather than finding the controller proper model name

These are all browser bugs so not much can be done about them.

naTmeg commented 7 years ago

Hi SpliFF, sorry for the delay. This looks interesting, I'll check it...

naTmeg commented 7 years ago

...nice work! I've extended some things, fixed problems (no call to cancelAnimationFrame(), malformed Joystick.button[]) and did some syntax-cosmetics. Also renamed 'Port 1/2' back to 'Mouse/Game', because this is printed on Amigas. I've finally also added the pointerLock-API, so I do an own commit.

Thanks for your time and work!

naTmeg / ScriptedAmigaEmulator

HTML5 Gamepad API #18