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MacGyver:
I'd want to hear what Andy from Ultimarc says about what it is that John Blund is planning, I dropped out of my EE courses decades ago, so I am in no position to judge its true feasibility. But it sounds like a tale I once heard about a man named Paul and his capacious cerulean bovine. :dunno Until then I'm not altering any of my plans.
DaOld Man:
Welcome to the forum Tophat! (And prepare to open thy wallet for this hobby.)
;D
lilshawn:
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It's funny. All of the amazing creative solutions that people have come up with, but this one seems to just be the one nobody can figure out. I understand that many people have LCD screens now, but the games that I want to play were originally designed for a crt screen with light guns, and that's how I want to play them again! You'd think if the ACT Labs guns could function even halfway decent, that someone could come up with an interface board that would actually work. Some of the people on this forum seem to be able to solder up their own personal nuclear reactor out of some bits of wire and a couple resistors, but yet here I am holding two HAPP guns with nothing to shoot them at...
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such is the problem.
It only a problem due to the way LCD's and other video technologies display information on the screen.
CRT's actually draw white on the screen (flash) for the gus to pick up...this takes time to do. You pull the trigger and the computer starts counting how long it takes to see the flash. it gauges a rough estimate of where the gun is pointed by how log it takes to see the light. the single flash you see is actually 10 or so quick flashes in quick succession. the computer takes an average of all of them.
LCD/plasma/projection TV's all update the screens one frame at a time. so you end up with one frame of picture-one of white-one of picture-one of white. There is no "drawing time" so the counting until the flash doesn't work.
Gray_Area:
Purple is good.
Hi, bennifer...I mean jennifer.
Wade007:
I know this isn't exactly what your looking for but I use this.set of AimTrak lightguns on my CRT screen. Arcade Guns are the closest thing to the real deal that Ive found. See full review here:
http://www.cheapskategamer.com/pc_game_stories_and_news/true-light-gun-support-for-pc-gaming-the-arcade-guns%e2%84%a2-product-review/