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| Voodooray:
As a newby could anybody explain how a light gun actually works please. Feel free to say absulutely no way man, get out of here, what are you trying to pull, why i aught to......etc,etc. Ta. Voodoo Ray. 88 Acid Revival, Safe! |
| ErikRuud:
How a Video Game Light Gun works |
| RayB:
I made a light-pen for my Commodore 64 when I was a teen. It used a Radio Shack photosensor and software that I had to type in from a magazine. It was not a very good light-pen. |
| ErikRuud:
A lot of those old 8-bit computers had ligt pen inputs on their joystick ports. It was fairly easy to implement, because they generally only had one video mode to deal with. I think that we need something along the lines of this ligt pen interface, but much cheaper. It would be cool if it had inputs for standard arcade light guns and/or Guncon guns. |
| Flinkly:
not to sound stupid, but what is a lightpen? is it like a light gun, but not gun shaped? sorry, i guess i'm just too young, or out of the tech loop on this one. i'd like to have my own lightgun, even if we had to do it byoac style, but i think by the time we finished such a product, there would already be another out on the market that would fit our nitch better. like that one that uses infrared diodes around the screen instead of whiting the screen out. just my two cents...again. |
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