Actionware Lightguns?

[TjLaZer]

Hey I am trying to get the Actionware games (POW, Capone, Prison) to work with a Atari XEGS Lightgun? I heard these are the same lightguns that Actionware used?  Anyone know?  I plugged it in and tried it and no go, tried the mouse port and joy port.  Bummer.

[save2600]

Was about to post a similar question and caught this unanswered post.
Six year old bump!   :lol:

Anyone know what's up with the Actionware light gun? Sounds like it's obviously not an Atari compatible thing which is strange and a shame. I've got this faux 8-bit Nintendo light gun with a DB9 end I should try on a game I just received recently: P.O.W.

It's also strange how the A1000 and the A500/A2000 usage of the gun apparently differs according to the manual.

[Christian Johansson]

Afaik there was two different companies making lightgun games for the amiga and the loghtguns differ too. But if you run the games with WHDLoad i think you can play them with any gun. The best lightgun is said to be the Mastersystem lightphazer with an adapter.

Check this thread on EAB for more info

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=21195

[Bamiga2002]

I have the light phaser but where can I get an adapter?

[Christian Johansson]

You'll have to make the adapter yourself. But it's very simple. Check the EAB thread above.

[Ral-Clan]

Could the problem the original poster is experiencing stem from using these guns with an LCD monitor rather than a CRT monitor (with horizontally scanning ray)?

I know that light pens will not work on LCD monitors because of this.

But I think light guns only care about seeing a "bright spot" on the screen (photosensor) rather than the location of the scanning gun, so my theory is probably off.

[tone007]

No, pretty sure the oldschool light guns don't work with LCDs, good point.