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CheffoJeffo:
Who would ever have thought that *I* would have to be the one to step in and defend Nanotech ???  :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:

Wait ... I need a couple more ...  :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:

It seems like just a year ago that I was being loud and proud on here calling David bad names (some of which saint had to edit) ... but *I* was calling him bad names for things that he had already done and how I think that he doesn't show respect for this community. A year later and I am ready to jump the fence.

OK, I *know* that you all want a plug and play optical gun interface for MAME and I *know* that you want it for under $100 and I *know* that Xiaou thinks that it is more economical to sell to consumers than to sell to the "dead" arcade market (who apparently have generated some demand beyond the 30 people here who are willing to spend a total of $100 each!)

In the absence of actual information, I'm going to choose to believe that this is a real product and that they have sold 4 batches of them and that there is a good reason why DavidRFoley has been quiet (e.g. the merger with Aldar Group, which apparently nobody else noticed).

For those who have bothered to keep track, the OEM docs for the SGS were updated last week. Maybe all of this isn't as dead as you think and maybe David does have things to do that are of more value than the $3000 Gross ( :w00t ) he is looking at from the 30 folks here at $100 a piece.

Here is my comittment -- if David has a single OptiGun interface that will interface with my standard Happ 45s and a standard PC and reports as a standard 16-button joystick, then I will buy it at retail prices and try it out. I expect that I may need to tweak some things along the way and don't expect the same "out of the box" functionality that everybody else here seems to. If David has any disclosure issues, then I will also adhere to those.

At that point, all of the delay issues can be directed at me until I get around to trying it out.

I've never been in a rush for that particular project, but I'd rather have folks rail at me than piss off a vendor that we have already pissed off, en masse.

How the hell did we get to the point where *I* am the reasonable one ?

 :dizzy:

1UP:
What are we supposed to think when he was on this very thread just a couple months back telling us that we could try it for 15 days, and that more were on the way, then disappears for, oh let's see it's been just about exactly 2 months?  Every other time that has happened, it usually means the product is dead, or the mfg lost interest in interacting with the admittedly small market we represent here.

I'm still interested in this product if there is a product to be had, but my budget for this particular item is now in danger of being spent on other things.  I'd like to hear something about either the optigun or sonic gun sometime this summer.  I for one am trying not to bash anybody, and the minute I get one of these--if it works--I will sing the praises of Nanotech all day and night.  I have been waiting on a professional grade gun solution for years, and would like to finally put this project to bed.

CheffoJeffo:
For the most part, I agree, hence my offer, which I have also made to David outside of this thread.

I really doubt that anybody has bashed David worse than I have (I don't recall what the profanity filter said, but I think it had something to do with sausage ...)

The OEM integration docs for the sonic gun have been updated within the past 7 days (I leave the link for the reader to find in case the public release was inadvertent).

There has also been a merger announced within the past 21 days, which will further complicate/slow things.

Could this be vapourware ? Yes, but it doesn't smell that way to me.



1UP:
If you scroll up the thread a bit, you'll see that I originally offered to do the same.  Unfortunately, stock of said item failed to materialize.  :(

EDIT:  FWIW, I revisited the earlier posts, and he did state that they would be back in stock in two weeks.  That was over 2 months ago.  Sigh.

Siris:
I don't even know what to say at this point.
From the start I have said I want one, I even said I would buy one with my *unsupported* guns if anyone was able to test and confirm the product with supported guns. Then after looking at my *unsupported* gun parts I even said I would buy one just to test it if the 15 day return policy was in place.
If I was wealthier than I am I would have just said F*it a long time ago placed an order on the Nanotech site (Which doesn't and never has said "Out of stock") just for the gamble!
There is nothing more I want then for the damned thing to be legit.

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