Pci board access

Questions & Answers
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Hello all,
I’m new to Unity and I’m studying if this is the right platform for a video game we want to make in our company.

One of the things we need is being able to acces our custom I/O PCI board to trigger external devices (lights and motors) from within the game.

Is this possible at all?

The only thing that I’ve found that comes close is some forum threads related to the serial port, but nothing else.

I wonder if anyone has setup a scheme as I describe. Any information will be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

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If it’s PC or Mac based and you can write a C-style DLL to access your hardware, you’re golden. But get the Pro version. Not that some folks haven’t found a way to access, say, the Kinect, from Indie, but that’s beyond me.

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Thank you guys,

I see, it’s part of the plugin scheme. Excellent.

This will probably be running on Windows 8 embedded or something like that.
I can now go ahead and build a simple proof of concept game for my company.

Thanks again!!