ACT
Labs Gun System review
Posted by Julio
Franco on December 22, 1999
Company: ACT
Labs Product: Gun
System
 From
my past experience with products coming from ACT Labs I had
very high expectations for this one, the first serious offer
of a Gun System for the PC.
The
concept of a Gun System reminds me of all the fun I had
playing Duck Hunt in the old Nintendo with the light gun
that came bundled with the first shipments of the console,
since then, light guns have been in constant evolution with
every good console that has arrived to the market.
However
we never saw any serious attempt from a company to introduce
a Gun System or something similar for the PC, well… one of
the biggest reasons was that compatibility was a huge
problem with any non-standard hardware peripheral in either
DOS or older builds of DirectX and we would have needed an
add-on card for using them.
Not
to mention that a few years ago PC gaming wasn’t taken all
that seriously and if you consider that the ACT Labs Gun
System was in development for about a year and a half there
is nothing we can complain about.
Here
are some specs of the GS:
| DESIGN
FEATURES
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- Innovative
system includes 2 guns and a handheld controller
- Convenient
holster-style base
- Contoured
rubber gun handle
- Rubber
textured buttons
- Elastomer
soft rubber holster pockets
- Each
gun unit has 2 buttons (one trigger, one side
mounted)
- Handheld
controller has a total of 3 buttons
-
Upgradeable
for future weapons and accessories
|
| TECHNICAL
FEATURES
|
- Uses
ACT LABS own patent-pending technology
- 3D
accelerator support
(all major chipsets)
- Compatible
with VGA video cards and CRT monitors
- Compatible
with extra large monitors (21" and above)
- Game
port and video computer connection
- Pixel
accuracy in
resolutions up to 1600 x 1200
- System
functions as DirectInput controller
- External
power supply included
- Handheld
mouse emulation option
- 6-feet
cable lengths
- No
expansion card required
-
1-year
full warranty and 30 day money-back guarantee
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