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== Supported Games == | == Supported Games == | ||
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* [[Bullseye]] | * [[Bullseye]] | ||
* [[Missile Ground Zero]] | * [[Missile Ground Zero]] | ||
| + | * [[Operation Wolf]] | ||
| + | * [[Robot Attack]] | ||
* [[Rookie]] | * [[Rookie]] | ||
* [[Solar Invasion]] | * [[Solar Invasion]] | ||
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Mastertronic released some more games with Magnum phaser support, but they were mostly budget type Spectrum ports. (... which games???) | Mastertronic released some more games with Magnum phaser support, but they were mostly budget type Spectrum ports. (... which games???) | ||
| + | * [[Billy the Kid]] | ||
| + | * [[Bronx Street Cop]] | ||
* [[F-16 Fighting Falcon]] | * [[F-16 Fighting Falcon]] | ||
Revision as of 20:24, 24 October 2011
The Magnum Phazer was released later on in the Amstrads' life, and retailed for £24.99 in the UK. It came supplied with a cassette and a disk, both containing six games.
The main reason to buy this gun was for the excellent Amstrad conversion of Operation Wolf. Playing this with a light gun on your Arnold was the arcade experience people relished but rarely got back in the 80's. The other supplied games were fun for a while, but by far the high point was Operation Wolf.
Technical
Connects to expansion port 50pin edge connector. Reportedly it uses only 4 pins: VCC, GND, LPEN, D7. Uh, that is, without decoding any address lines or /IORQ lines?
Trigger Button ---> Request via output to Port FBFEh, then check CRTC input Light Sensor ---> CRTC Light Pen Input
To read the Trigger button (to be done during vblank):
Port[BCxxh]=11h ;select CRTC register 11h old=Port[BFxxh] ;-get old value Port[FBFEh]=7Fh ;\force an edge on the lpen input Port[FBFEh]=80h ;/(depending on whether button is pressed or not) new=Port[BFxxh] ;-get new value if old=new then ... else ...
Supported Games
Mastertronic released some more games with Magnum phaser support, but they were mostly budget type Spectrum ports. (... which games???)
Pictures
- Magnum Light Phaser
Light Phaser
Light Phaser
Drawing
Package
Inside of Interface/Gun showing the Trigger Button logic and Expansion Port pins (are there REALLY only 4 pins connected?)
