From: daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray)
Subject: Re: TECH: PGSI on the MAC !!!
Date: 4 Feb 1993 22:59:24 GMT
Organization: Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley


In article <1kq9e1INN9aa@shelley.u.washington.edu> jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Brain) writes:
>
>For a long time, I was going on the assumption that the powerglove
>would work with the Mac line of computers. Well, I need not assume any
>longer.  As of yesterday, someone has implemented a mouse replacement
>for the Mac in a program on the Mac.

What program?

>  It does not take over all mouse
>movements as of yet, but I have a feeling that is a trivial problem.
>So, for all those people who want 23-27 frames per second on the MAC,
>get a PGSI!

23-27 FPS, with what program? Publicly available? 
Or do I have to write my own program myself to get the 23-27 FPS?

The PGSI will do fast serial data, and simultaneously interface the
PowerGlove and 3D glasses. That's impressive. But there's a long way
to go before these features are useable on the Mac.

I could probably write a serial interface object for Opcode's MAX
to interface the PGSI, as soon as I have one to play around with.
But there's nothing like REND386 for the Mac, as far as I know, which
simultaneously uses the PowerGlove and 3D glasses. I already have
separate interfaces for each of these, and separate programs on the Mac
which use these devices and interfaces. (Juri Munkki's SEGA3D glasses
interface and program, and MAX's "glove" object and Glod Brick interface for
the PGlove.)

Until there's a use for the simultaneous PG and 3d interface in a Mac program,
it's hard to justify the expense. (I'm getting one anyway because I also
use an IBM which can run Rend386.)

We need to port rend386 or something like that before the PGSI will be useful
 on the Mac.

-Dave
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