From: gs@teetot.acusd.edu (Greg Simon)
Subject: TECH: PowerGlove questions...
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:26:38 -0700



I am currently hacking the glove to my Amiga and I have a few
questions.

(1) The code/hack example I found has the glove wired to the parallel
port.  From the info I can gather about the glove's operation, it
sounds serial in nature; so wouldn't it be better to hack it to the
serial port instead?  Or does it matter?

(2) I have heard of "LoRes Mode" "Hires Mode" and "3D Mode."  The 3D
mode is initialized by sending: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0xc1 0x08
0x00 0x02 0xff 0x01 .  How about the other two modes? Are there any
other modes?  How does the 12-byte data packet differ between modes?

(3) Is the Motorola HC-11 hack the _best_ way to connect it to get the
best data output?  It seems like over-kill to me; but then I'm only a
second-year Elec.Engineer :-).

Thanks for all who respond!

-- Greg 

Greg Simon
gs@teetot.acusd.edu
Electrical Engineering
University of San Diego