joncampbell123 / dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
GNU General Public License v2.0
2.78k stars 381 forks source link

Add patch to play Gun-Stick light gun games with mouse #5122

Open MX9000 opened 3 months ago

MX9000 commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Opera Soft and Dinamic released some games that worked with a light gun connected to the parallel port called Gun-stick: https://computeremuzone.com/pc/subgen/gunstick&l=en

What you want

Years ago a patch was made that added Gun-stick support to DOSBox 0.74: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/patches/255/ Torinde attached a patched DOSBox to this thread: PG-5 PcGun by A4 Tech Support? #3651

Describe alternatives you've considered

DOSBox author ripsaw8080 wrote some .COM files for games Solo and Guillermo Tell to play them even on standard DOSBox:

Additional information

No response

Have you checked that no similar feature request(s) exist?

Code of Conduct & Contributing Guidelines

Torinde commented 3 months ago

In some of the links is discussed that the patch can be enhanced to use the joystick as second gun. ManyMouse may allow using a second mouse as well.