Das Magazin für die Generation 8-Bit

Our friends from Return Magazine are spoiling us with an offer you don’t want to miss! A free issue to everyone interested in trying out. All they ask for is a little fee of about 2 Euros that covers postage, packaging and paypal (for the Europe area).

Since October 2009, Return is published quarterly and deals with all 8-bit computers and game consoles, its past and its present. We bring news and deliver backgrounds from A to Z for Atari to ZX Spectrum.

Why 8-bit? Because this generation of processors for two decades, from the first personal computer, the Commodore PET, up to Nintendo’s Game Boy Color, computer and game experience has influenced millions of people around the world. These systems have become part of our culture, are burned into the collective memory players and are therefore also today still supplied with new software and hardware. The support ranges from homebrew developers to medium-sized businesses makes it clear: the 8-bit scene is alive.

 

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Yes, that’s right. OK, so it’s not a « real » Power Glove, you know, the uncomfortable contraption that was brought for the Nintendo NES out in 1989. That’s precisely why the inventor of this « Wireless Motion-Sensing Gaming Glove for the Commodore 64 » wanted to create something better than his Japanese ancestor.

To do this, Leif decided to use a SoMo sensor from the Canadian company SonicWear. This sensor is basically used to translate body movements into real-time musical and visual compositions. The inventor completed the project by coding the data transmitted by the glove/gyroscopes/sensors so that they would be read by the C64 as simple joystick controls!
For those of you that are interested, the source code is available here.

If you’d like to know more, you can go to the project page. Incidentally, the creator has invited us to come and try out the glove on December 7 at the World of Commodore 2013 in Toronto… If we make it, we’ll be sure to give you some feedback

Source : retrogamer.ca > Hack a day