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Article #16749Re: Sort of a Joke - sad though...
From: Michael T Ford
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:54
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:54
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In article <C0IEow.326@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> mce5921@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Martin Emde) writes: >In article <1if757INNjlf@transfer.stratus.com> det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland) writes: >>In article <1if650INNt9a@hp-col.col.hp.com> cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best) writes: >>[someone else writes, no attribution given]: >>By the way, the gun (which reads the "flying spot" of the video trace >>from the screen), should work adequately with projection TV, so that is >>*not* the problem. >> >Can anyone out there be more specific as to how those games work >that sense screen position? How does it compensate for different >sized images and varying distances from the TV? When you pull the trigger on the "gun", notice that the screen briefly goes completely black except for a white spot. Then in the gun there is a lense and a photodetector. The photodetector gets the white spot (assuming you aimed correctly) and then the screen goes back to the normal. Then the duck, or whatever, falls out of the sky. Mike
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!wupost!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!cthomas From: cthomas@athena.mit.edu (Michael T Ford) Subject: Re: Sort of a Joke - sad though... Message-ID: <1993Jan9.055411.3916@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: marinara.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1if650INNt9a@hp-col.col.hp.com> <1if757INNjlf@transfer.stratus.com> <C0IEow.326@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> Distribution: na Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:54:11 GMT Lines: 23