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Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: eyal8r on December 16, 2004, 02:39:58 pm ---so wait- I thought I could still buy an Act-Labs gun for TV on their website- are they not continued anymore?
Thanks
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AFAIK, the PC monitor gun is discontinued, the TV one is new and still available.
ErikRuud:
According to an email I received from Act Labs:
--- Quote ---- The PC USB Light Gun has been retired and we have no more stock.
There is a chance the product will come back. You can subscribe to a Wish
List on our home page for an update if the product comes back.
- The TV USB Light Gun is in stock and shipping although we are running
low on stock.
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fredster:
--- Quote ---I'm wondering, why hasn't anyone hacked a better looking gun, like a Saturn gun?
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Howard C explained it to me, It's not that simple. There has to be a white pulse and some device to measure the time. The lightgun just picks up the white pulse. The PC gun was more than just a mouse hack to a light gun, it had it's own electronics to pick up the pulse and then translate the position as a mouse click. Mame treats the lightgun like a mouse.
Just hooking a lightgun up to a PC won't cut it. It needs that mouse ability and the device to pick the pulse.
When the button is pressed, the PC gun sent a signal to the box in the back and sent a white (all monitor guns on) to the screen. The lighgun optics picked up the white (because a monitor scans from left to right, up to down scanline) and knew the time and hertz of the monitor, then it moved the mouse cursor to that point. So it was kinda complex, like hacking an optical mouse.
That's why it's hard. Now if somebody can come up with a mouse PCB hack and the chips that ACT LABS used and fused them together to make such a system, yeah, you could take about any lightgun and hack it.
ChadTower:
What I was trying to say, really, was why not take the guts from one of the crappy looking but functional PC light guns and put them into a better gun... it should be doable, hell we can do just about anything else around here. :) All you'd have is the good gun guts in a more macho casing.
ErikRuud:
Here are two more interesting possibilities that I am trying to get more info on:
http://erealgames.com/ecommerce/os/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=28&osCsid=556eb25cf0b770f4a8ed5b30ddf8ad1b
the bottom line reads: "It is not currently compatible with PC games", hopefully the use of the word "currently" means that it will someday soon.
http://www.eopstech.com/eops/index.html
I think this is probably works simular to the Gyration Mouse.
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