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- From: asklingl@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andreas Klingler
- Subject: Re: TECH: SEGA light guns
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.060407.22429@u.washington.edu>
- Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
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- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:46:32 GMT
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- rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
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- >Could you post some pin-outs?
-
- Ok. Here we go:
-
- An Amiga Joystickport looks like this (for a lightpen):
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- Pin 3 left button
- 4 right button
- 5 pen pressed to screen (not used here)
- 6 capture beam position
- 7 +5V (125 mA)
- 8 GND
-
- One might use Pin 5 for the trigger of the gun, however it's easier to
- read Pin 3 or 4 in software, so I used Pin 3.
-
- Beware that only one Port has the input for the beam. As far as I know
- this is Port 1 (the right one) on all new Amigas. Only on the A1000 it
- is Port 0 (the front one).
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- This is how the Nintendo connector looks:
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- ------
- / 1 |
- | 5 2 |
- | 6 3 |
- | 7 4 |
- -------
-
- Gun Amiga (joystick port)
- --------- --------------------
- pin 1 GND pin 8
- pin 5 +5V pin 7
- pin 6 Beam pin 6
- pin 7 Trigger pin 3
-
- (5 and 7 might by exchanged . You'd better check this. I can't
- anymore, since I cut of the connector.)
-
- To enable reading of the beam to have to set some flag in the
- hardware.
-
- I have put up a software which lets you control the mouse pointer with
- the gun on karazm.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.1) in Incoming/VR as
- AmigaGun.lha. (Makes fun shooting at those Workbench drawers.
-
- I just sould add some sound effects. :) )
-
- The program should also appear at ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- (131.188.1.43) in amiga/misc soon.
-
-
- Andreas Klingler
- asklingl@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- I'd love to help you out... Which way did you come in?
-