Oh boy, is it 2016 already? What a great hibernation I had
Soooooo, I'm still alive and here to bring you justice, err I mean the latest news from my development lab of madness:
Donations
First of all a general shout-out to all the donors out there supporting the project; thank you very much
I chose to not respond to every single e-mail notification since I don't really know what to say individually so I decided to post it here where interested folks can check that I indeed received the loot
Thanks again!
Bugs
My main focus is hunting down and eliminating bugs reported on
Github since it's just the best issue tracker for a project of this magnitude. I completely stopped responding to bug reports posted in this thread since it's way too time-consuming to keep track on a bulletin board. If you haven't already check out the
Issue tracker.
Features
I shifted my focus from working on the new Profile Manager to re-designing the Driver Installer since a surprisingly amount of people are having troubles handling it correctly. Giving users the freedom to choose their mouse and keyboard as a DualShock controller wasn't the brightest idea I suppose, although, well, just no...
Next I will merge the Tray Notifications Tool and the Monitor in one new shiny control panel with some more features on controlling the service, listing controller and connection details and so on. I also recently joined forces with the developer of
vJoy which lead to a brainstorm on fixing some bugs in the ScpVBus (Xbox Controller Emulator Driver). Basically I'm working on a fix so you can use the ScpToolkit in a mixed-controller environment like one or more physical Microsoft Xbox 360 Controllers.
Updates
I bought a code signing certificate! Soon I hopefully will be able to ship signed drivers and executables to please the Windows Kernel and UAC. My personal documents have to travel from Europe through the NSA apparatus to COMODO, so that obviously takes a while. Plus the releases now include a small auto-updater which silently checks if the software is recent by
querying Github once a day. You also get a shortcut to check on updates at will. For all the privacy fanatics: yes, I will make it optional to install too if you don't want it
Other stuff
I created a chat-room! Sometimes it's just more convenient to use a chat instead of a forum or mailing; I don't really have plans for this one, just leaving it there as an experiment. In the meantime I also had a look on the doubled-input problem e.g. DS4Windows suffers from when a Game tries to access the DS4 in its own. I made a small
video demonstrating my fix (just for teh lulz),
the code is available in this repository. Binaries and how-to will follow. Btw. yes, I know DS4Windows has a "Hide DS4" option. Since some people seem to have troubles with this workaround not doing the job I decided to at least investigate into an alternative and I think mine is quite elegant
Phew, what a post. Oh, look at the clock, I've gotta go, later guys and gals
PS: I didn't forget about the PANHAIs but I'm only one guy with limited resources
I will certainly notify you once I mastered the art of turning into a robot, I promise!