RetroVirtualCockpit
A downloadable app for Windows
The Retro Virtual Cockpit lets you control any game with too many key controls to remember (e.g. old flight sims) from a nice cockpit UI running on a touch-screen device connected to the same local network as your windows game computer.
This software is a server app that runs on the same Windows computer you are running your game on. There is a matching Retro Virtual Cockpit website that provides a touchscreen cockpit. The website sends key press commands to the server app, pressing the keys in the game for you.
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Install instructions
- Download application zip file
- Extract to a location of your choice
- Run RetroVirtualCockpit.Server.exe
- Windows will show security warnings. Click 'More info'.
- Click 'Run anyway'
- Windows Firewall will ask if you want to allow the app to receive calls from the RetroVirtualCockpit website - click 'Allow'
- Once running, locate & note the connection key
- Open http://xbattlestation.com/retrovirtualcockpit on a touchscreen device (recommend iPad), and type the connection key into the top left corner
- Follow instruction 4 onwards on that page
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Oh my lord this looks cool
Not even just old flight sims, you could probably use this on new flight sims too! If you make a way for people to make their own panels using your textures and assign them keybinds, it could really be used on anything! This is a really intuitive and can lower the price to enter flight simming significantly. Thank you for making this and good job :)
Thanks for the support 😊 Yes an editor is nearly at the top of my priorities for this.