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GunCon2 on PC-monitor
Silver:
--- Quote from: jelwell on August 17, 2005, 03:39:33 pm --- Personally, I'm holding out for the Namco style tracking guns anyways.
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Holding out? Is one being developed? I figured it would take either complete reverse engineering of the HOTD3 style infra red system (which I think you are referring) - but them you may as well develop your own from scratch (which Andy from Ultimarc started doing, but then scrapped when he had issues and the guncon hack came along.....
On the guncon-with-VGA front, I've (finally!) got a circuit built to convert the VGA H/V syncs to composite sync that the guncon can use (thanks to Mr. Warne and his J-pac sync converting chips...). I've also got a 9V power supply ready for the Scorpion guns I've borrowed to test (they apparantly don't work from USB power alone, probably due to there 'laser sighting' or different circuitry - just need to check which pins in the PS connector I need to power).
I'm just hacking up a VGA cable for testing now (man these modern moulded-plastic ends are ridiculous. Turns out to be 10x quicker to snip the end of f, test all the cables and then resolder to a new 15-way.) Have a quick question though - I'm going to want to take of the H and V syncs off the VGA, but still feed my VGA monitor with them for the picture (obviously). Can I just pull them without causing problems with the signal? I know R,G,B are all terminated to 75 Ohms in the monitor - not 100% sure about the syncs. Even if they are, will I upset the termination by running the syncs into another IC?
Or am I going to have to come up with some kind of distribution device (You can't just split all the VGA signals - you mess up the termination). There is probably an obvious way round this...
Smog:
--- Quote from: jelwell on August 17, 2005, 03:39:33 pm ---Is it fair to call this Vapourware? Or are people still optimistic? Personally, I'm holding out for the Namco style tracking guns anyways. But I do have a few guncons sitting around that I'd try out if this circuit ever materialized.
Joseph Elwell.
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I spent a lot of time to make a lightgun work on my mame-cab and I finally found a solution that I consider "epocal". Maybe Guncon2Mouse driver suite is far from perfection but it has proved it works. So the answer is : <No! Not it is not fair indeed.>
AceTKK:
I believe he was referring to making the Guncon work on a PC monitor. Nobody in their right mind would call your or Acorn's work vaporware.
Smog:
Ooops ... maybe you are right :P I always use that word for software, that's why I got confused. Sorry
jelwell:
--- Quote from: Silver on August 19, 2005, 05:55:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on August 17, 2005, 03:39:33 pm --- Personally, I'm holding out for the Namco style tracking guns anyways.
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Holding out? Is one being developed? I figured it would take either complete reverse engineering of the HOTD3 style infra red system (which I think you are referring) - but them you may as well develop your own from scratch (which Andy from Ultimarc started doing, but then scrapped when he had issues and the guncon hack came along.....
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I wasn't aware that Andy gave up on that. Too bad since it's superior technology to even the GunCon2 guns.
--- Quote from: Smog on August 26, 2005, 05:24:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on August 17, 2005, 03:39:33 pm ---Is it fair to call this Vapourware? Or are people still optimistic? Personally, I'm holding out for the Namco style tracking guns anyways. But I do have a few guncons sitting around that I'd try out if this circuit ever materialized.
Joseph Elwell.
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I spent a lot of time to make a lightgun work on my mame-cab and I finally found a solution that I consider "epocal". Maybe Guncon2Mouse driver suite is far from perfection but it has proved it works. So the answer is : <No! Not it is not fair indeed.>
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Indeed I was referring to the "GunCon2 on PC-Monitor", which is what the title of this thread is. - which Zeropoint seems to have falsely stated, "I am happy to announce that the GunCon2 compatible guns now work excellent on PC-monitors (CRT) even at high resolutions."
Thank you for you work Smog.
Joseph Elwell.
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