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- From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
- Subject: Re: POWERGLOVE
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.135111.2774@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Summary: CONNECTING THE PWRGLOVE
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- Date: 28 JUL 92 08:43:38
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- In article <rda732m.711786178@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au>, rda732m@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au (J.P. Baker) writes...
- >I have just connected a Mattel Powerglove to my A500, and tried the
- >amigahires.lzh programs for those that know what I am on about.
- >
- >However, No values feed back to the glove, has anyone out there
- >tried this hack and had success, is there some special mode or
- >something that the glove has to be set into.???????
-
- I have a powerglove connected to my A500, and it works fine.
-
- The glove is very power-hungry, and you must make a small modification
- to your Amiga before it will work.
-
- There is a small resistor between the +5 VDC line of your amiga and
- the +5VDC pin of the printer port.
-
- You must find this resistor, and solder a piece of wire across it
- in order to provide enough current to drive the glove.
-
- The only drawback to this is that the +5VDC obtained through the
- parallel port is no longer current-limited, so your power supply
- could get damaged if there was a short or excessive current demand.
-
- In my own case, it is irrelevant, because I'm using a power supply
- from an old IBM AT, and it has short protection (it shuts down if
- the +5 VDC line is shorted to ground.
-
- The physical location of the resister (on all A500 motherboards)
- is directly behind and on the left side of the parallel port connector.
-
- This is as you are looking down at the connecter with the A500
- oriented so that the keyboard (or where it would be were it not
- disconnected) is in it's normal typing position.
-
- The AmigaHires software works, but it is a little "noisy" (
- occasional incorrect values are displayed on the screeen).
-
- I believe the "noise" is due to close-but-not-exact timing of
- the software sending it's clock signal to the glove.
-
- BTW: You can talk about the glove in a more comfortable environment
- if you switch to newsgroup sci.virtual-reality (or something like that).
-
- You'll get lots of help from that group. The glove as well as the
- SEGA 3d glasses are hot topics there.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Good luck,
- Jim
-
- -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
- Neither do they speak for me.
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