Posted by Howard Casto on 22, 2001 at 12:56 PM:
does anyone know of any drivers for the 3dzone master that work on 2000? Or does anyone know of a vb or c++ prog that interfaces with it?
or better still is anyone good enough with vb com port connections to help me?
my next side project will be to get the darn thing to work in 2000/xp and most importantly, mame...
if i can just gain access to the analog readings the device sends back, i should be able to write a stand alone prog that forces cursor pos based on those values....
i know there are linux drivers out there for it, because i found them, so someone must know how to do it
if i can get this to work then it will be the ultimate gun solution....
....it's infra red so no modding to the mame code and it will work on any monitor
....it's cheap... the comapany who makes them no longer sells them, so you can pick them up on ebay or at speciality stores for a little bit of nothing
....it's easy to hack and has several buttons (5) and a hat switch to play with
oh and it actually looks like a gun :)
(a star trek phaser mind you, but that's a gun i guess)
....it's easy to get to work
i would have it to emulate the mouse and it's three buttons while the rest of the buttons would be definable as keyboard keys, so it would run on anything "right out of the box"
if someone with any of this knowledge out there would be willing to help me, i think i can put together a prog for it in a matter of a few weeks...... probably much less than that