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Understood
@runnerpackRegistered July 26, 2003Active 11 months, 4 weeks ago
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Hiya, lameboy!

Yeah, it’s things like that 3-letter abbreviation you just used that made me leave in the 1st place >:(

But, as for the glasses, I haven’t gotten them to work yet. (With this driver, anyway)

I installed the stereo driver and my computer started going crazy! It wouldn’t boot so I had to load a registry back-up. Then, I installed the latest driver, and it seems to have the stereo support built-in, and it might not support my glasses 🙁

This and a lack of both time and games to test it with are the major hurdles at this point.

BTW, where’d your website go? You should e-mail me and get me caught up on what’s been happening with you and the “scene” (although I have pretty much read the 3 posts-per-year that have racked up here 😛 ;-))

Well, later

Not that anyone cares, but I just ordered a “new” (for me, anyway) nVidia card which will allow my glasses to work with (nearly?) any game and make them truly 3-D!!! WOOT!

It would be extra schweet if it worked on N64/PSX emus…

Now, if someone could figure out how to modify the Voodoo3 3500 to allow the PC to go to standby, I could make a living-room/DVD/emulator/”TIVO” PC with it. I still might, but I’d really like standby…

While the SuperFX is tasty, none of the Donkey Kong Country games use it…

But an even better game did use a SuperFX2 chip:

SMW2: Yoshi’s Island

Which is easily the best SNES platformer.

(/me waits for the MegaMan X fanboy flames…)

Actually, it accepts an image pair (every 2nd frame, I think) and sends the images to the appropriate eyes. But, it’ll also show 2D images like a regular monitor.

If you have an Nvidia card, (almost?) any “3D” game becomes REALLY 3-D!

And, it has a head-tracker so you can look around w/out using a mouse/joystick.

You could try jamming things into your eyes until you can’t see colors anymore…

But seriously, no. It’s only putting out red light. You’d need a magic filter that makes green and blue light out of thin air.

Go read something about “additive color” and how the eye sees light.

P.S. Don’t jam things into your eyes. It was a joke. 😛

Each display has an array of 224 tiny LEDs all integrated onto one silicon chip with a bunch of fancy driving logic. They were originally made for LED printers.

They only come in red (or perhaps infrared :shrug:) and are hard to come by, besides.

My plan is to use custom circuitry and fiberoptics to make a pair of green/blue/white/full-color/whatever VB displays.

They would be ready by 2022 if I started right now 😛

While looking for x86 assemblers, I was reminded that there is one called “HLA.”

The developers have made an “assembler kit” for custom assemblers. I haven’t looked too closely, but it might be useful for making a VB assembler. (Brian Provinciano might have even used this for NESHLA…)

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/RollYourOwn/index.html

This “webster” site has a lot of other cool assembly stuff, too!

  • This reply was modified 15 years, 6 months ago by RunnerPack.

Umm… Why did you start talking about emulators? 😕

I was talking about this:
http://neshla.sourceforge.net/

If it can be used to make Grand Theft Auto on the NES, imagine what the same technology would enable on the VB!

Amos

  • This reply was modified 15 years, 6 months ago by RunnerPack.

This is a great idea!

What about mods? For example, converting the link-port to RJ-45.

You could also find a source for some phillips-head screws that will replace the security ones, and offer a set of them for a small, additional fee, or as a separate “repair-less” service for those that just want to be able to open and close their VB w/out making a screwdriver.

I hope it turns out well for you!

Later

(Again, sorry for the double-post…)

BTW, how/where did you get $500 of free PCBs?!

I’d be willing to take a shot at it. I already have some simple designs done (small, DIP, 256KB-ish carts)

Do your files work in the freeware version of Eagle?

Make sure you include any cusom components you used.

Later

BTW, shouldn’t this be in the Marketplace section?

(Sorry for the double post, KR155E, but I can’t edit posts, again…)

I don’t understand your sour grapes over a few (from what I’ve heard) non-fun games, but your site is copyright-infringalicious 😉 :thumbup:

Your products look quite interresting, and 17 “gold coins” per pad isn’t that bad, but I have a very limited budget and have to use the parallel port to connect my controllers. (Besides the fact that I don’t even have much time to play games…)

I wish you lots of success, though!

If a pencil fixes it, a more permanent (maybe dangerously so :P) solution would be those conductive ink markers they sell for PCB repair. Or, you could try to mix your own conductive ink/paint.

Just the change left over from my last $0.98 purchase…

Hey, that’s awesome!

They could have made it more… professional-looking, though…

I was thinking of developing something similar for either a DS (if cheap home dev’ing is/will be available) or two linked GBAs.

I was planning on going for head-mounted — with some sort of external controller.

I think it would be better to write a VB-specific codec and re-encode any video you want to display.

This would prevent the VB from having to decode things it can’t use (like color) and then throw them away.

It would also allow tricks like changing the BRT registers within a frame to simulate more shades.

Also, if converting stereo video (which is the point of using a VB in the first place, right?) you could use the similarities between the two images to almost halve the data size.

The only problem being finding out how to write a codec for your OS of choice… Anyone have any expertise in this area?

Even better would just be an A.I.-based retard filter…

I don’t know if you know about it, but here is binutils-2.10-v810patch1021.gz (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA007898/pcfxga/develop/binutils-2.10-v810patch1021.gz)

Can’t wait to get your floating point patches… 🙂

Can the Super Wildcard DX be converted to NTSC? (e.g. with a new BIOS) And, how much do you want for it?