wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) (11/26/89)
------- About a year ago I bought the Atari light gun, both for playing the light gun XEGS carts, and for tinkering around with. While the Atari gun is basically functional, it's not too accurate or sensitive...you have to be close to the tv for it to work at all well. This problem was mentioned here last year and someone posted a modification to the (Nintendo? Sega?) light gun to make it compatible with the Atari machines, and it was supposedly much more accurate than the Atari gun. Anyway, on to my question. The past 2 months I've seen ads for an Atari compatible light gun from Best (see the December Analog San Jose Computer ad). Has anyone used this light gun? Is it more accurate and sensitive than the Atari? -Ray
c184-bd@holden.Berkeley.EDU (Dale Kim) (11/28/89)
In article <Nov.25.17.19.07.1989.7650@topaz.rutgers.edu> wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes: >all well. This problem was mentioned here last year and someone >posted a modification to the (Nintendo? Sega?) light gun to make >it compatible with the Atari machines, and it was supposedly >much more accurate than the Atari gun. > I was planning on buying a light gun for my computer, and since I'm not a big fan of Atari computer accessories, I decided that the Best light gun would be the better purchase. But I already have a Nintendo game system with a light gun, so I was wondering if anyone had the modification plans to make this gun compatible with my Atari 800. Also, any information on how the light gun is handled by the operating system would be appreciated (I know a good deal about the internals of the Atari computers, so any extremely technical information will not intimidate me too much). Thanks. -Dale