The Magnum Light Phaser 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.
Contents
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
- Bullseye
- Missile Ground Zero
- Operation Wolf
- Robot Attack
- Rookie
- Solar Invasion
Mastertronic released some more games with Magnum Light Phaser support, but they were mostly budget-type Spectrum ports.
- American Turbo-King
- Billy the Kid
- Bronx Street Cop
- F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Jungle Warfare
All five releases were also available on the Megaplay 2 compilation.
Disc
- Magnum Light Phaser
(FR) Disc - Side B
(FR) Disc - Side A
(UK) Disc - Side B
(UK) Disc - Side A
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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?)
