Add OSX 360 gamepad driver.

[benvanik]

Haven't looked into this too much, but it should be possible to do.
http://www.lastrayofhope.com/2009/06/12/athena-xbox-360-pad-and-mac-os-x/
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2187/_index.html

[wtfaremyinitials]

I don't know much C++, but I'll give it a shot after I'm done with finals.

[benvanik]

Things don't even compile under OSX right now, so it may not be possible to
do anything beyond research. Research would be interesting, though, as
there doesn't seem to be clear ways to get access to gamepads on OSX
(though it seems like 10.9 may have added some APIs), and it'd be nice to
know what and how to support different controllers when the time comes.

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[3van]

Unfortunately the 360 gamepad (and the wireless receiver) don't represent themselves as HID-compliant device classes so IOHIDManager and ForceFeedback won't do anything with them out of the box.

The driver alluded to in your first link implements the protocol as an IOHIDDevice. The author hasn't updated it in a while, though, and a lot broke with Mavericks (and Yosemite). A lot of these have been fixed in a fork of the driver.

So essentially, nothing special really needs to be done on the dev side to support the 360 controller itself. The user just needs to install this driver and then it acts just like any other HID gamepad.

I haven't looked much at the Xenia code yet, but if there are already interfaces for implementing gamepad support on other platform(s), I'd be happy to work on an implementation for OS X.

[benvanik]

FYI: OSX probably won't be supported for awhile - at least until Apple moves beyond OpenGL 4.1. The new GL driver needs a lot of 4.3-4.5 features. Probably not worth doing much more there.