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- From: grendel@bluefin.net (Knobody)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: It seems futile, but...
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:43:13 GMT
- Organization: Blue Fin Systems, Inc.
- Message-ID: <grendel.182.315EEE61@bluefin.net>
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- Well, like the subject says, this is probobly not going to do any good, but
- who knows, I figured I'd give it a shot anyways.
-
- I WANT YOUR AMIGA 1000s!
-
- Seriously. No joke.
-
- I'm working on a project for school/myself that evolves around the concept of
- garage virtual reality. My "garage VR" setup is based around nothing other
- than our aging friend, the Amiga 1000. Why? I needed something cheap, that I
- wasn't afraid to break, but I also needed something that I could work with and
- could still perform quite well despite it's age. An XT certainly wouldn't do,
- nor would an Atari ST or an older Apple computer. The Amiga was far and away
- my best choice. And besides, I already had one.
-
- I've rigged a Nintendo Powerglove up to it. Works quite well. I hacked a
- Victormaxx Stuntmaster game console HMD to it's video and audio ports, which
- also works alright (too bad the resolution is so poor). But now I find myself
- needing a couple more machines, add-ons, etc to help finish the project out.
-
- My ultimate goal is to be able to have three or four Amiga1000 workstations
- "networked" together and allow people to interact with each other in the
- relatively poor looking "garage VR" setup I have going so far. Sure, it
- doesn't sound like much, but it's something that I'd personally like to do.
- Unfortunetly, I've put a bit of money into this already and am almost totally
- devoid of cash fundage. So I can't pay a lot. (at this point, you sigh and
- realize that you were expecting this all along--a desperate plea for
- donations).
-
- If you DO have an Amiga1000 sitting on a shelf in a closet collecting dust
- that you're not using though, please consider this. I can pay the $10
- shipping price or however much it would cost you to send it to me if you'd be
- willing to part with it, perhaps a little bit extra depending on how much you
- want for it. I'm really quite desperate. If you have any external disk
- drives, old external modems, hard drive controllers, memory upgrades,
- keyboards, power gloves, whatever, that you were just considering trashing,
- please contact me. If it's broken and might be fixable, let me know. Like I
- said, I need anything I can get.
-
- Please no flames or anything of the sort. I'm just a student trying to find a
- means to learn a little something and do a little experimenting. I hope I can
- actually get something off the ground, if I can manage that, it would be
- great. On the other hand, mebbe nothing will come of it. Who knows? In any
- case, thnx for bothering to read my pathetic plea for used hardware <GRiN>.
- CatchyaL8r!
- _____________________________________
- So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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