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Trojan Light Pen
Trojan Light Pen - Tested and working - Was £23, then £18, then £16, then £13 now £11 + p&p for the ultimate its gotta go price :)
This comes with the original box and driver disk, but no manual.
This pen only works with CRT displays. I would also expect that it would not work in systems that use any kind of flicker fixer.
It plugs into the standard joystick socket.
Rough guide to Postage:
UK should be no more than £2.50
Europe should be no more than £3.50
Outside Europe should be no more than £6
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PM sent expressing interest and asking postage to Sweden and some info about the device.
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PM Received. Photon is first in line.
I have left this item in my office, and I will not be back there until later in the week. I will confirm the predicted postage costs on Friday, but my expectation is that it will not be more than £5 by standard airmail to Sweden.
To answer the questions in your PM (I think I am required to do this in the thread).
1, The pen works by moving it close to the screen. The screen effectively becomes the canvas for the pen. But note that it only works with CRT monitors, and it will most likely not work in any system that modifies the way the screen scans (such as is found with flicker fixers). It has only been tested in standard 15khz screen modes.
2, There is a driver application which provides support for the device. I have tested the supplied driver with Workbench 3.0. It should work on 1.3+. The driver should allow the pen to be used with any application which uses the OS in the standard way. It will not work in games or applications that switch off or bypass the OS. Most applications that have been programmed in AMOS Basic for instance will not work. Most everyday applications like Deluxe Paint, Wordsworth and Pagestream, etc, should work fine.
Having said that, I have not tested it with OS 3.5 or 3.9, or accelerators beyond 68030.
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OK, thx for info. This is a nice gadget, but as my SCSI interface died I'm getting cold feet :| since I can do without this but not without a SCSI interface. I guess others will want to know postage anyway, so I guess weighing it is a good idea anyway. But I'll probably not buy it now :oops: so I don't want to stop anyone else.
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No probs Photon.
As Photon has withdrawn interest, the door is open to everybody else again.
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Just a note to say that I can provide the driver executable for this device on request, just PM. Of course you can not tell if the driver functions with your device this way, but you can at least tell if it will crash your system.
The following is clipped from the readme that accompanies the driver disk:
"In most properly written applications the lightpen will be useable instead of the mouse, this is obviously useful
for drawing programs (e.g. DPaintIII/IV).
The lightpen can only operate on lighter coloured backgrounds, so it will not function on dark (e.g. black) parts of the screen. For this reason it is suggested that drawing takes place on a white background with
light colours. The palette can always be changed at a later date. An example pen palette is included on this disc called LPen.IFF...
...Technical Notes
If you wish to utilise the lightpen driver in your own software read the following notes:
- The pen moves the mouse cursor as though the mouse moved, no special lightpen routines have to be included.
- The pen driver exists in the VBL list, the input.device handler list and as a concurrent task so disabling multi-tasking will render the pen useless.
- The driver uses a POINTERPOS call to report pointer position, so
reading the mouse directly will render the pen useless.
- The driver leaves a small (3K) memory resident portion at all times, so correct memory management must be used."
I hope this further information helps out anybody considering this nice item.
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Added guide postage costs.
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