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- From: 70233.1552@CompuServe.COM (Mark T. Pflaging)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: Improved PC C++ Glove Driver!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.051631.25551@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:55:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov21.051631.25551
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
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- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
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-
- Hail and well met!
- As you may or may not know, o2glove is a C++ Power Glove
- driver/demo for any PC (via parallel port) that I wrote (with a lot of
- cooperation/code borrowing from other people).
- This is to let everybody know that there is a maintenance release
- available for o2glove, called o21glove.zip. That is because it's Revision
- 2.1. It is available via anonymous FTP from sunee.uwaterloo.ca in the
- pub/glove directory. The differences between V2.0 and V2.1 are relatively
- minor. Here is a list of the chnages:
-
- 1) Erroneous PGPINS.GIF no longer here.
- 2) Now compiles under Borland C++ 3.1.
- 3) If there is no glove attached, any key will get you out.
- 4) The last "piece" of the thumb is now present.
- 5) Timings are printed even if glove is not found.
- 6) Glove's arrow keys now change the color of the moving cursor.
- 7) Smoothing functions can be turned off from glove.ini.
- 8) 'makefiles' now work.
-
- Most importantly, the driver compiles for Windows!! The full demo
- is not in place for Windows yet, but there is a simplified demo that works
- under Windows & DOS.
-
- If my gut feeling is correct, there are a lot of you out there who
- would love to use the power glove with MS Windows. Now the real
- development work can begin, because the difficult part - making the glove
- driver work under Windows - has been accomplished. Don't expect to see
- much with this release; all it does is print all the data received from
- the glove to a text window. Also, though it appeared to work fine on my
- computer (486/33, Windows 3.1), there is no guarantee that this version
- of the Windows glove driver will work on every computer (I'm keeping my
- fingers crossed.) I'll post any problems I encounter here.
- (The worst part was that I couldn't detect under Windows whether
- the "glove interrupt vector address", [which I changed to 250 from 128],
- is actually unused or not. I override it anyway, and there could be
- unforseen consequences of this.)
- Yes, I'm working on getting two gloves hooked up also.
- If anyone copies this code to other anonymous FTP locations, plase
- tell us about it. Also, can somebody put it on karazam? Can somebody
- also make it available via list server?
-
- -Mark T. Pflaging
-