If your Mac has an Internet connection and has an AirPort Card installed and an Ethernet port, you can share the Mac’s Internet connection with your Xbox 360 console. This article describes how to use your Mac instead of a router to connect your Xbox 360 console to Xbox Live.
I have created a USB driver which allows you to use wired XBox 360 Controllers via USB, and wireless XBox 360 Controllers via the Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, on your OSX machine, including support for the Apple Force Feedback library. The driver is licenced under the GPL. READ ALSO: Snow Leopard I’ve released a version which will hopefully install and work fine on 32-bit Snow Leopard. It also contains 64-bit binaries, however I’ve been unable to test them because Apple have disabled my MacBook from booting into 64-bit mode. I have however been informed that 64-bit and 32-bit builds are both working. ChatPad I have got the Microsoft ChatPad working with my wired controller.
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The latest release of the driver includes support, and I’ll be updating the USB information section of this website shortly. I’ve not yet checked the wireless receiver for compatibility. Other info Sadly, my PowerMac has died, which as my primary development machine has slowed progress.
I have added a version of the driver without support for the Guitar Hero controller, to allow the Guitar Hero for Mac game to work (it attempts to access hardware directly, which doesn’t work if a real driver has claimed the device). Help If you find the driver does not work for you, please attempt and find out as much as you can about the device, preferably using the Apple “USB Prober” application provided with the developer tools, but the output of System Profiler for the device may be enough. E-mail it back and I’ll try and work with you to get it working. Force feedback-enabled games Games I’ve currently tested for force feedback support (only games that support basic rumble will probably function currently, as I’ve only implemented triangle, square and sine wave-type effects. I also lack any other force feedback device for comparison ? ): Jammin’ Racer – seems to work fine What’s New in XBox 360 Controller Driver.
By. 6:00 am, October 29, 2012. After we reported on coming to the Mac, we got a reader question that I figured it’d be good to write a tip on. Playing games on your Mac is great fun of course, and all of them use the keyboard and/or mouse to control the games being played. However, with AirPlay mirroring, HDMI cable support, and a bunch of new games showing up for the Mac platform along their Windows brethren, there are times when a console style controller is a better alternative. Being able to sit on the couch and play our favorite Mac games has a lot to recommend it, and using an Xbox controller is fairly easy to set up. First of all, you’ll need an Xbox controller, wired or wireless with the Microsoft wireless adapter.
I used a wired controller, but you should be able to get a wireless controller (with the wireless receiver you can get on ) to work just as well. Secondly, head over to TattieBogle, and there. This driver will let your Mac talk to the Xbox 360 controller, and vice versa. Once downloaded, mount the disk image with a double click on the.dmg file and then double click on the.pkg file that’s on it. Follow the prompts, just like any other OS X installer, to install the driver software.
You won’t need to restart. Now, plug in the Xbox 360 wired controller. The green lights around the middle Xbox button will light up, but then will go dark. Unlike when connected to an actual Xbox 360, the controller will not light up when connected to your Mac.
Now, pull up System Preferences, either from the Apple Menu or from within your Applications folder. There should be an Xbox 360 Controllers preference icon in the lower right, now. Click on that, and you’ll see a control panel like the screenshot above.
Pressing the buttons will darken them on the control panel, so you can see that the controller is working. Now, launch Steam, or other controller-enabled game, on your Mac, and get to gaming! You can send your Mac screen to your Apple TV or use an HDMI cable to get it up on your HDTV.
I recommend the cable, as Airplay can have a little bit of lag between a button press and the effect, depending on your router’s wi-fi signal.