V 0.0.7u2

Fixed bug in botton detection

Hi all

It is time to close this blog. All the people still interested in discussions about the driver are kindly requested to redirect to home of the project :

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/smogdragon/ 

From there you will have all the infos under your hand and a new forum will let us interact. This blog willl still be here for important comunications such as new releases.

Hope to see you all on the new place.

Diego

Tonight I was going to test calibration wizard but my cab didn't want to work .. windows installation got messed up maybe for too much reboots. It will take a pair of days for me to fix it so I've decided to release a new version now. Since it is not fully tested I'll consider it a beta and will not increment version number. Feel free to jump this version if you are not curious or be sure to have the old driver and know how to put it back

so ...  in FULL MAME STYLE :D ... here comes 0.0.7u1 :D. Let's see what is in it:

Version 0.0.7u1 OUT !!! Codename : "MIND THE GAP"

   . New installation pack, joins together driver and  control panel (you can find a new icon in XP control panel now) <- I love this.
   . Added calibration wizard
   . Fixed a bug in the driver that prevented to use sensitivity values minor than 10
   . Minor bugfixes.
   . Changed handling of centering values (your old values won't work anymore)
   . Added a new assignment for buttons (simulates the "shoot off screen")  

As always : http://xoomer.virgilio.it/smogdragon/files/GunCon2MouseV0.0.7u1.zip

DETACH (OR PUT IN GCON45 MODE) THE GUN BEFORE INSTALLATION. IF IT IS THE FIRST TIME YOU INSTALL THIS DRIVER, WAIT FOR INSTALLATION TO END AND THEN PLUG THE GUN. LET WINDOWS SEARCH FOR THE BEST DRIVER WITHOUT SUGGESTING A PATH FOR THE INF FILE.

V 0.07 - "License to kill (with your GunCon2)"

   . Driver now saves Autocalibration results on unplugging (Obiouvsly if Autocalibration is enabled)

The most awaited feature is now here. No need to recalibrate at each driver start and the ability to see in the contorl panel the edges calculated by the autocalibration routine.

If Autocalibration is enabled, each time you unplug the gun the driver will save the new calculated edges. After that you can disable autocalibration and tweak the edge if needed.

A new control panel version is ready too, that includes some minor correction and a calibration wizard. Unfortunately I was not able to test it, so you must wait a few day still to put your hands on it.

Greetings

0.0.6 Out - CodeName : "To Shot or not to Shot (OffScreen)"

New features:

   . Enable/Disable Offscreen shot detection (*)
   . Fixed a control panel bug that prevent from assigning different values for different guns
   . Added possibility to Assign "Enable/Disable Offscreen shot detection" to gun's buttons so you can switch on the fly
   . some minor code debugging.

* I noticed this can greatly improve playability

Toooo many requests for it. I appreciate your job guys but I still want to keep all under control and under one roof. So I decided to start collecting info on a real site.

I will still post all info on my work on this blog and it can be used for keeping in contact with me.

the site is http://xoomer.virgilio.it/smogdragon

It's still under costruction but I will finish it soon.

Version 0.05 out - codename "Rolling (X) thunder"

Made some changes in the phisical to logical coordinates conversion routine. Maybe this help in solving the X roll ups ...

I made some fix that can help in solving the "rolling up X"  that I will post later.

But right now I am writing this post for announce you, that I've right now finished playing pointblank in tandem with  2 GUNCON!!!! And it's a BOMB!!!

I was testing some functiononality of the next advance mame version!!!! Big OLE' for Andrea...  Hasta la victoria ...

I am facing more problem than expected setting up a piece of code in the driver but  I feel I MUST release something even if it is not complete.

Just to quiet your hunger . The new release is not a major one but full of news indeed .... here we go :

Whatsnew v0.04
control panel executable included in driver .zip file, not yet as a real installation pack.

Added support for :
   . Custom Edge values
   . Enable/Disable selfcalibration
   . Button Remapping
   . Pointer sensitivity regulation

VIM (Very Important Missings) / Todo list :

  . Saving results of selfcalibration

  . Implement centering

  . Write manuals / help

  . HID interface selection

Hi all,

Sorry I won't come out whit a new version as I hoped. It's 4:30 AM and I will be working tomorrow in the morning so I cannot find this damn stupid bug that is driving me crazy in the new driver ...

The main features will be buttons remapping and manual adjusting of calibration values for people that had no luck with selfcalibration (it works quite nice to me however)... control panel is working and functional now (and it looks soooo nice :D ). I'll probably release a new version of Driver tomorrow in the late evening.

See ya