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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Light Pens vs Modern Screens |
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 03:15 | |
spinal
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never used a light pen  ...I wonder if those modern 100+mhz tv’s are able to emulate an electron beam in order to get light pen/guns to work?.....
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 03:15 | |
steve_ancell
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Not sure about that but I suppose it may be possible to do it with software; quickly fill the screen with pixels, in a raster-style, every other frame. It would probably flicker like fuck though. 
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 03:59 | |
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spinal
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would only need to be done when the trigger was pressed though. |edit| jay, you should probably merge this with the other lightpen thread, I didn't see it |edit|
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 04:01 | |
Jayenkai
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LOL, as if I coded a working Merge method!!!
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 05:07 | |
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spinal
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My nintendoscope didnt even work on my newest crt tv, i assume the refresh rate was too high for the flash to register.
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 05:20 | |
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spinal
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ooooohhhhh...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06cd5y5l1Ns#! it appears that if you can set your TV to its native mode and remove any of the upscaling and other crap that they do these days, a NES zapper will still work. - NES games just changes an area of the screen to white for a frame or two, so the gun only checked for a color change without any timing. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
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| Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 10:14 | |
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steve_ancell
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Well that's my idea blown out the window, the thing I had in mind is really donkey slow. |
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