herrlybird: I am using a Macbook with OS X 10.7.5 and trying to play X-Wing Collectors edition (for Mac) using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick. The computer seems to recognize the joystick when I check the "USB bus". When I open the game the joystick does not work. Am I missing something? I sent an email to GOG support but only received an automated reply stating they got my email.

rampancy: This is the DOS version (e.g. the "native" Mac version which is the game within a DOSBox/Boxer wrapper), yes? If you go into a mission and press ESC you'll bring up the options menu which allows you to enable joysticks/tweak joystick options.

Also what you need to do is to go into the dosbox.conf file buried deep in the X-Wing .app file, and add the following options:

[joystick]
joysticktype=auto
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

Sadly, I don't have a Mac on hand at the moment, so I'll walk you through the process later in the day once I get home.

herrlybird: I don't think it is the DOS version. They just released the Mac version which I downloaded. I don;t have any files named dosbox associated with it.

rampancy: As I suspected, it is indeed the DOS version run in a Boxer-based wrapper. (The last time I played this game, I rolled my own Boxer wrapper after extracting the data files in the installer in Wineskin.)

Here's how you can get to the configuration file (for the purposes of this discussion, I'll assume you installed the .app in /Applications):

Control-click on the .app, and choose "Show Package Contents".

Navigate to: Contents/Resources/game

Within the "game" folder you should see another .app, named "Star Wars X-Wing SE". Control-click on *that* .app, and again, choose "Show Package Contents".

Navigate to: Contents/Resources

Within this folder is a file called "Star Wars™- X-Wing Special Edition.boxer". Control-click on this file, and again, choose "Show Package Contents".

What you will immediately see is four files; one of them is called "DOSBox Preferences.conf". This is the .conf file which has the DOSBox settings used by Boxer. Open it up in any text editor (my weapon of choice is Bare Bones Software's TextWrangler, which is free on the MAS).

Add the following entry (I like to put it after the [dos] entry, for neatness' sake:

[joystick]
joysticktype=auto
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

You may want to play around with the joystick parameter; there are more details here, on the DOSBOX online manual. In terms of configuring buttons, us Mac users are sadly SOL; Alun Bestor has sadly decided not to support DOSBox's built-in keyboard and controller mapper for implementation reasons.

One solution around this, as mentioned in the linked thread above, is to take the Windows DOS installer for X-Wing, and install that into your own DOSBox install with either DBGL or Dapplegrey as your DOSBox front end.