Discord overrides the macOS text editing keyboard shortcut ⌘↑ (Command–Up Arrow) that universally means: move the insertion point to the beginning of the document. This drives me insane. I miss native apps that respect convention.
🤩 this looks like it can augment my text editor theme (Zenburn), giving me some much needed color variations.
Working with Core Foundation's CFPlugIn, a tech based on MS COM, is straight forward and relatively easy. Working with DirectX's equivalents, also based on MS COM, has probably taken a few years off my life.
The output of pnputil /enum-drivers shows the Virtual Controller driver installed on Windows.
The Virtual Controller driver for Windows can be installed. This is the output of pnputil /enum-drivers
Screenshot of BlueSky accessibility settings showing "require alt text before posting"
Earlier, I posted an image without alt text, my bad. I found an option under Settings → Accessibility that prevents posting without adding alt text. That option should probably be on by default. 🤷
#BlueSky #Accessibility #InclusiveContent
iPhone app is working as a game controller. It connects to the driver on the Mac and sends HID input reports as the button states change. Games are playable. 🎮🕹️👾🧑💻
This is so fun!
#IndieDev #RetroDev #GameDev #RetroGaming #MacGaming #iOSGaming #Apple #iOS #Mac #SoloDev #OpenSource #Emulation
Eddie's memoji waving hi
Hi, I’m Eddie 👋
I’m an indie developer 🧑💻
I’m building Virtual Controller, it’s open source and turns your iPhone into retro game controllers 🎮
I plan to share my progress here
#IndieDev #RetroDev #GameDev #RetroGaming #MacGaming #iOSGaming #Apple #iOS #Mac #SoloDev #OpenSource #Emulation #AboutMe
Sketch.app showing new assets
Updated assets for the driver's host app.
Different iPhones with layout/design variants of an emulated NES controller.
Experimenting with different layout/designs. I think I underestimated how much aspect ratios, bezels, and especially the notch would impact emulating retro game controllers.
Thought process from left to right: Paperboy? Police Quest? ...? Oh, Frogger!
There were a few on my list that I didn't own either. But I think a console I played every Sunday at my Oma's house counts.
My personal Top 10 Consoles, based on their impact on me:
1. DS Lite
2. NES
3. Sega Genesis
4. GameCube
5. Wii
6. SNES
7. ColecoVision
8. Atari 2600
9. GameGear
10. TurboGrafx-16
What's your favorite NES game?
Marble Madness
The driver works. The hard part is finished. Now I just need to make the iPhone app talk to the driver on the Mac.
I miss this era.
OpenEmu and ioreg recognizing my driver and virtual device
My driver can attach a virtual gamepad device. It is properly registered within the I/O Registry when inspected with `ioreg`. And it is recognized by OpenEmu! 🎮🕹️
Ever spend way too long trying to get a tool working that's sole purpose is to save time?
Don't try getting github.com/microsoft/hi... running on macOS. Don't say to yourself "C# is available on macOS, how hard can it be?"
My macOS DriverKit based project can install itself!
Starting a new video game adjacent project that requires writing a macOS driver with DriverKit. Apple doesn't make this easy.
C'est la vie.
