Do I need the ThrustMapper?

Do I need the ThrustMapper to play a game?

You may not need to use the ThrustMapper at all. Games run under Windows 95 should support at least a 4-button, 4-axis joystick as a default control. Connect the Millennium to your system, install the software and run the Activator software to tell Windows 95 that you will be using a Millennium. Then run the game. If the Millennium works in the game, you do not need to do anything else with the ThrustMapper if all you need is a joystick.

Please note: Acting as a "plain" 4-button, 4-axis joystick, the Millennium's POV hat, and buttons S4 and S5 are not seen in games (the trigger and buttons S1-S3 are the default joystick buttons). Using the Millennium with DOS games requires that the games be run in a DOS window under Windows 95.

To get the Millennium to act differently than a default joystick requires the ThrustMapper. The instructions for how the Millennium is to work with a particular game are kept in script files. You need to tell the ThrustMapper the game's name, and which script file to use with the game.

Show me how to set up a game and script file.