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Light guns and LCD screens
Dave_K.:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on April 28, 2003, 12:12:24 pm ---Hmm... that reminds me... they could easily make a lightgun like that, but there is not a large enough market.
Note: Do you recall the NES Powerglove? I still have mine and it has an attachment to the tv of this sort.
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I still have a powerglove (hacked it back in the early 90's to my PC for some early Virtual Reality stuff). Its works off an ultrasonic array. If you've ever seen Confidential Mission in the arcades, you will notice it has a similar array setup, but I believe its infared detectors and not utlrasonics. Once calibrated at the beginning of the game, they are very accurate. I agree there probably isn't a large home market for this. Unless the next generation of home video game consoles decides to take the challenge.
As for the question on LCD refresh rates, you're really dealing with the pixel clock and not a traditional "refresh rate". Although I think most documentation still refers to it as refresh rate. So if you think you are seeing skip city, its all in your mind. The only skipping that may occur is during fast motion animation (and its really bluring/ghosting, not skipping/blinking).
shmokes:
The NES powerglove is the most retarded thing ever made. Please don't mention it again.
anthony691:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 28, 2003, 01:19:08 pm ---The NES powerglove is the most retarded thing ever made. Please don't mention it again.
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What do you have against it? I think it was a galant effort at virtual reality; given I never got mine to work quite right...
In any case it is NOT the worst NES controller, that prize would have to go to the UForce! That thing never ever worked!
Sorry OT