

With the new PPJoy Virtual Joystick installed we can start using it! You will the see PPJoy to Virtual Mouse window. I recommend it pinning to the Start Menu. When you want to use your virtual joystick, find and click on PPJoy mouse. In the PPJoy Configuration Utility you will see a Virtual Joystick has been successfully created. Click Parallel Port, and from the drop down menu, select Virtual joysticks. You will see the PPJoy Configuration Utility, click the add button. PPJoy Basic Installation Once you have downloaded and installed, open Control Panel then locate and double click the Parallel Port Joysticks icon. PPJoy has a host of different ways it can be used, which I have not touched on here, but the documentation which accompanies the application is comprehensive and well worth close scrutiny. The developer is no longer working on PPJoy, but a Google search will find numerous sites from which you can download the software. Software Magic! Having used this myself for some time, I will use it to illustrate the steer by mouse concept. It’s ideal for steering by mouse as it allows you to remap your mouse movement into the x/y-axis movements of an average joystick. Use Your Mouse To Steer With PPJoy PPJoy is a joystick emulation program that allows you to remap the inputs from a number of different devices, as virtual joysticks within Windows. For example Glovepie has a host of features allowing control of MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, even virtual reality gloves! The possibilities that applications like these offer can be as exciting to explore as gameplay itself! In this article, however, I will focus primarily on using your mouse to steer with the program PPJoy.

Of course you also splashed out to get that latest steering wheel didn’t you? What, you didn’t?

You just parted with your life savings to purchase a top of the line gaming rig and acquired a number of the latest racing titles. Any one using the gamepad + mouse combo? I love game pad but graphics suck on console and PC players.
