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i just saw on ACT LABS site that they will no longer be proucting light guns!
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RandyT:

--- Quote from: AlanS17 on July 05, 2005, 05:52:00 pm ---You must have little faith in your own product if you believe a hack is actually better.

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Well, my experience with light guns has shown that the GunCons are about as good as it gets, at least on the hardware side.  Once the software issues are squashed, I would suspect that some enterprising individual will come up with a way to make it plug and go.  Ie. not really a hack anymore (it is a USB device afterall), just an excellent gun that uses an adapter for PC use.

RandyT
Smog:

--- Quote ---My guess is that they have monitored the progress of the GunCon2 hack and figure it's only a matter of time before that's the route most of their potential market will be taking.

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Act-lab announced last stock of guns before I released the first version of the driver. For sure you can't blame the stop in production to GunCon2Mouse project. And before my project none did anything on GunCon2 hack AFAIK.


--- Quote ---I would suspect that some enterprising individual will come up with a way to make it plug and go
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In fact it is how it works right now .. plug, install the driver, and go .. you only have to use a videoboard with tv-out and compatible (Original seems to have rolling-x problem) guncon2.

An hack is needed if yuo plan to use the gun with a VGA forced to 15Khz and you will never get rid of this unless you change the hardware in the gun ... can't help in anyway.
AndyWarne:
I would not be at all surprised if there is not some hidden issue behind the Act-Labs decision. As people have mentioned, why go to the expense of developing a product, find a willing market and then withdraw it? I would suspect some patent issue maybe. There are a large number of patents covering light guns.
u_rebelscum:
If you haven't noticed, Act-Lab also stopped manufacturing ALL their products.  No more steering wheel, no more pedals, no more shifters, either. :(

All they've become is a reseller.
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