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    Thinkpad Accelerometer Fun

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mziol, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. mziol

    mziol Notebook Consultant

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    Thinkpads have accelerometers (what detects the shake or movement and parks the hdd heads) that can be used for more than just protection.

    Does anybody know of any programs that can take advantage of it?
    Something like smackpad but for windows. I know linux has a few out there but there really isn't much for windows.

    I've found this at least:
    http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/sdl.html
     
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    Neverball and TuxRacer are decent :p
     
    Surfer666, Jun 18, 2008
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    does anyone know if there's a program that can access g force readings from it?
     
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    lol the classic google map flying
     
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  5. mziol

    mziol Notebook Consultant

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    Well over here: http://www.stanford.edu/~bsuter/thinkpad-accelerometer/

    They've worked on some simple code. I'm guessing that might help a little. I was just hoping somebody would have more info regarding programs that use the accelerometer or somebody that would know how to code well enough to add to that ^ program to create one that could emulate neat effects in windows.
     
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    i can't get neverball to work - i double click the neverball.exe and nothing happens, but i see the process in the task manager.
    and i couldn't control tuxracer with my laptop.
    any suggestions? i followed what the IBM site said

    edit-i got tuxracer working. but not neverball
    2nd edit - i got neverball to work, but not with the modified sdl.dll :?
     
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  7. fafan111

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    How did you get it to work? I have the same problem
     
    fafan111, Jun 24, 2008
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    could you get the games to run at all? where are you running into problems?
     
    supra97RX7, Jun 24, 2008
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    it's exactly as you described. I run it, and nothing happens. But i see neverball.exe in my task manager. I checked to see if i have msrvr71.dll and i do. So i'm not sure

    I just dled neverball, extracted it, and replaced some files with the thinkpad accelerometer thing I think
     
    fafan111, Jun 24, 2008
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