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TNT was a "DOS extender" that allows core windows NT functions (drivers) to work on MS-DOS. Shame I've tossed all my ancient pentium PCs or I might try recovering the MAME drive image to a hard drive and giving it a go.ĮDIT: I understand that I'm just a dumb end user googling crap, but I find it interesting. However it does not sound like something you could get running inside windows short of emulating the hardware then installing it as the OS. If this is the correct thing, it sounds like something that could be used on an arcade setup. If things go smoothly I might do the other unemulated or hard to emulate games in the pack.ĮDIT: This is probably wrong, it's more likely the ETS kernel from Phar Lap who made the TNT extender So anyway the task at hand is to find out how big the data width is for the steering on the unmolested arcade game (probably a single byte), find where they are pumping a fake value (again, probably 0 for left and 255 for right) and instead send the joystick value. I can confirm that there is a call to HID_setOutputReportData, which is how you do rumble the hard way in some cases. I also found a single byte address which seems to be broken force-feedback at first glance. Analog triggers are also converted to digital buttons. I found the digitally converted inputs straight away and confirmed that, yes they are being converted to a simple 1, 0 and 2 for left, center and right respectively.
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First off no force-feedback (lame!) and secondly all controls are converted to digital. not that it renders anything higher, but it might be useful for oddball setups. Also of note is the fact that Dxwnd will allow you to change the fullscreen resolution.
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I managed to get the game to run in windowed mode via Dxwnd. The port isn't a super great one, but it's all we have atm aside from the dreamcast version. No this isn't going to be an endlessly long project like Outrun Fxt.īadmouth wanted me to take a look at the Midway Arcade Treasures port of Hydro thunder.