Just installed Wing Commander 1 and I cannot use my joystick buttons. Everytime I use a button it shuts the game down. I am able to move around with the joystick no problem. Just the firing of any button shuts dos box down. Running on Windows Vista with a Logitech extreme 3d pro. Thanks

Figured out that I cannot run dos box in a window and use the joystick. Unfortunately I cannot run the game in fullscreen dos, because the game is so choppy. The joystick works with the buttons, but the game is impossible to play. Tried the control f11 and f12. This does speed up the game and slow it down, but does not affect the constant pauses the game makes. Any help would be appreciated.

Try changing the render to openglnb.

Do I add that to the dosboxwc after frameskip, aspect, or scaler?

No scaler and set the full screen resolution as the same for the desktop, aspect set to true.
No frameskip.
Also set the joystick type to FCS and see if it works better with "timed" true or false, just in case.

fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1440 by 900
windowresolution=original
output=overlay
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.map
usescancodes=true

frameskip=no
aspect=true
scaler=openglnb

core=normal
cputype=auto
cycles=4000
cycleup=500
cycledown=500

nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=20

mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=5
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100

gus=false
gusrate=44100
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

pcspeaker=true
pcrate=44100
tandy=auto
tandyrate=44100
disney=true

joysticktype=FCS
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

This is what I have, but still nothing working correctly in dosbox. The game is extremely choppy, but is able to use the joystick or I put the dosbox in a window make it fullscreen and cannot use the buttons on the joystick or it shuts down dosbox.

This holds true for WC2 as well.

Output is still set to oeverlay, try openglnb

Thank you that fixed the problem.