Re: Best Apple II emulator & joystick calibration

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

stano2000@yahoo.com (Stanley) wrote in message news:<df105ff2.0210280717.2b58d55f@posting.google.com>...
> Hi folks,
> 
> what I'm looking for is a good Apple II emulator for Windows
> environment. I prefer freeware emulator, with run-in-window option.
> 
> To this moment I tried at least 2 different Apple II emulators (Oasis
> & AppleWin), but I'm confused because weird joystick functionality.
> Everytime I'm going to play the test game Bruce Lee on any Apple II
> emulator, I can't define keys for playing the game.
> 
> Do you have any recommendations how can I redefine keys in emulator to
> simulate Apple joystick correctly? This complicated process with
> calibrating the joystick and defining keys as alternatives for
> joystick movement just doesn't work for me :-(
> 
> Alternatively I can use Gravis Xterminator joypad. Do you have any
> idea how can I successfuly remap Apple emulated joystick to PC Gravis
> Xterminator?

If the Gravis is like my Interact Pro Pad, you can use it as a
standard joystick in ApplePC 2.52�.  (But ApplePC is a DOS program and
might not run so well in a window, although it does run in a window
even under Windows 3.1x.  YMMV)

-uso.
(Still trying to figure out why the F I can't get the joystick to work
in Dapple.)