Here is some news wich might interest you: A friend of mine, Gianni Zamperini (he was the exclusive distributor of the SAM Coupe for Italy when Samco was still alive, he is still a Sam user) has developed three new imput devices for the SAM Coupe and most other computers with digital joystick IF. They are all somewhat similar but none the less they are created for different uses. The first is the flightstick, a little rectangular box which must be held in the hand and rotated sideways and/or to the back/to the front to simulate joystick movement. This one is very good for games like flightsimulators instead of a joystick. The second one is called SamGlove and is a real VR Glove for the SAM. It uses both joystickports and gives software full control over movements of each finger and of the whole hand. The third one is called G-Lite and is a single joystickport version of the SamGlove. It dedects only the movement of the hand and of one finger (working as fire switch in joystick emulation) but is much cheaper to produce. I have seen them all with some Speccy games and some simple dedicated demo software and they work all very smooth, there are nearly no false movement dedections, and although they were still prototypes they looked quite professional especially the SamGlove which looks very similar to the expensive professional ones. For more info you can contact Gianni directly via Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or with a messagge in this area as he reads it too, since yesterday.
He is also planning to restart a free SAM/Sinclair mag he published in Italy during the SamCo period. This time he intends to release it at least once a month as a ZXsnap file for easier distribution. Most likely it will be published both in english and in italian and could reach quite large distribution as snap files can be read on a speccy with +D or disciple, on the SAM and on the PC-Speccy emulators and as it will be free it can be distributed via modem on bullettin boards, on the speccy and SAM related Internet sites and on disk. For any contributions (articles, reviews, news ecc) contact him on the adress mentioned above or me. Bye, Arne +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Arne Di Russo Internet..: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (up to 14. Jan. 1995) | | Rome, Italy Fidonet...: 2:335/311.55 and 2:335/21.55 | | Voice.....: ++39/6/56338158 after 9pm CET | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
