From: Robin Hollands <R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: HOME-BREW: Problems with the Powerglove on a Pentium
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 16:42:12 +0100
Message-ID: <325924D4.7033@shef.ac.uk>
Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield 


st962e5c wrote:
>         Has anybody out there done the parallel powerglove hack and
> tried to use the glove on a pentium (120) ? I have and it doesn't work
> at all.  

The whole basis of the BYTE/parallel port Powerglove hack is to try
and fake the signals and timing which would have come from the game
system.  Faking timing is incredibly difficult since even
time-specific functions vary from machine to machine. Most Powerglove
code used rather dodgy timing routines which, while they worked well
on a slow 386, just goes too fast on a Pentium. Even if you got into
the code to slow it down, you'd end up with so many delays, you might
as well run it on your 386 anyway! If you still want to get it working
on your Pentium, try using a Menelli interface (see Chris Hand's Web
pages for more details http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/ ), which I seem
to remember is platform speed independant.

Cheers,

Robin

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