From: frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst)
Subject: Re: Nintendo Power Glove
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 91 02:53:42 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ


In article <1991Sep5.223013.3540@milton.u.washington.edu> kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (David M Kreindler) writes:
>
>In article <1991Aug14.160833.14627@acs.ucalgary.ca> jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Josh
>ua Bell) writes:
>
>>Would it be possible to use the Nintendo PowerGlove as a poor-man's
>>dataglove? Obviously the sensitivity isn't there, but it would allow some
>>degree of interaction.
>>
>>And (long shot here) does anyone have the ability to jurry-rig a NPG
>>to an NEC Ultralight's RS-232C port and write a mouse driver? (I know, long
>>shot.)
>
>Long shot?!?  C'mon, this is the USENET, 'the wonder product with a million
>household uses!'
>
>There was an article on exactly that topic in BYTE magazine about a year ago,
>including pin-outs, how to wire it up to an RS-232, and with a prototype 
>driver (-in C, as I recall-). I'd love to give you a precise reference, but
>I just disposed of my BYTE back-issues. . . . 8-(

Not exactly that, but close... I recall July '90 as the exact issue of BYTE.
It didn't mention a mouse driver though.

Here's what we've developed, based on that article: A mouse emulator which
uses the power glove connected to the printer port. The code is based on
MS MOUSE.COM v5.03. We cut out the bit which actually read the mouse, and
replaced it with calls to our glove routines. I'm not sure of the legality
of distributing this.

Its operation was disappointing -- the ultrasonic position sensing is too
slow to be able to position very accurately on the screen. Maybe you'd
improve with practice.

Frank.
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