Posted by Howard Casto on 21, 2001 at 9:51 PM:
In Reply to: Andy's Crazy Concept.. posted by Andy Geez on 21, 2001 at 8:02 PM:
It's called the 3d zone master.... it's an infra-red "3d pointing/navigation device" for the pc... I have one and it used to work in mame pretty well, but unfortunately since i upgraded my mother board, i can't seem to get it to work....
it has a L shaped corner that you put on whatever monitor you wish to use... the corner has three infra-red sensors imbedded inside it, thus triangulation can be achieved...
it uses a serial connection btw and hasn't be in production in quite some time... i got mine at egghead i think
i think part of my prob is the absence of drivers... if anyone could get this to work in mame it would be totally sweet... expecially since they only cost about 5 bucks now
:)
: Now a very smart man, one smarter than me would have this done..
: I am heavly into Sega Naomi lately, hence my abscence from the BOYAC scene.
: Light gun games on Naomi use InfraRed, a number
: of little sensors placed around the monitor
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: \ * * * /
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: The stars and the \ / \ / are the sensors, they don't run on the vertical, just horizontal and on the corners.
: Meaning it doesn't matter what the monitor is (Digital/Analogue/LCD or non working!), infact it doesn't even need to be a monitor!! The guns have InfraRed Receivers which know if the gun is in the screen zone, or outside the screen zone (No need for White flashes), no need to push the trigger as they are always updating.
: The Guns and InfraRed monitor sensors, both connect to a Sensor board, the actual sensor board sends analog signals (X1, Y1 for Gun 1, and X2, Y2 for Gun 2), now if some software could be designed to read the results back then you'd be onto a winner.
: Now I personally think this option is the best solution for the following reasons:
: Could be used as a pointing device, doesn't require arcade monitor support, is the most accurate system on the market (You play HOD2, Confidental Mission, Lost World and you'll see what I mean), could be used with Analog gun games.
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: My machine also has USB IO boards.
: The first one (The main IO board) has the following spec:
: 24 Digital Inputs
: 8 Analog Channels
: 8bit output (for flashing lights)
: The second IO board is for Optical
: 4 Optical devices or 2 trackballs.
: Plugging these into the PC, make it flash up with unknown USB Device.. Now if Sega made a USB driver, because you could then use all sorts of arcade products.