Confused me as such too, but I think his "until it's possible" part meant that "it's not possible with the current version of AGS yet, but I'll do such a thing when this can be done in a future version". However, if this can be done in a future version, that means AGS ould support joysticks natively already, unless that said dll-less plugin (which should be called a script module instead) does management jobs like whether a button is held for a while or whether a QCF motion is detected.