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- From: nicolai@sssab.se (Nicolai Wadstrom)
- Subject: Re: Sega glasses & Nintendo Powerglowe
- Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15 1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:20:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.152009.5593W@saruman.sssab.se>
- References: <1992Jul21.122526.21956W@saruman.sssab.se> <BrrtD3.L9t@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <BrrtD3.L9t@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, dstamp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng) writes:
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- >1992Jul21.122526.21956W@saruman.sssab.se> nicolai@sssab.se writes:
- >>Virtual Reality has interseted me since I got my hands on a raytrace that
- >>would run on my 386 a few years ago. Lately I've read about the Sega
- >>3D glasses (goggles) and a Nintendo Powerglowe, and that sounds real
- >>interesting, can anyone please inform me on were I would be able to
- >>order these and in what price range they are?
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- >It's unfortunate that both these thing have been discontinued. Sega
- >of America is supposed to be selling some reconditioned glasses,
- >though. The gloves are harder to find, although some "glove-hunters"
- >have posted on sci.virtual-worlds offering to seel hoarded gloves at
- >100% markup (about $100).
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- Ok, do you know how could get in touch with Sega in America, here in
- Europe (Sweden actually) I don't know where to turn, these things never
- came to the swedish market.
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- >Since you have a 386, I'd suggest getting REND386 from sunee.uwaterloo.ca
- >which supports both, and has a high-speed 3D renderer built in. THe next
- >release should be out in a few weeks, and includes a complete world (well,
- >set of rooms with furnishings). Source code is available, but you need
- >Turbo C++ or Borland C++ to compile it.
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- I'll get and have a look at it!
- But I have an older version, that version, although impressing fast 3D
- rendering, didn't offer much. And it wasn't that fast on my old 20Mhz 386DX,
- but I'll be getting a 33 or 50 Mhz 486 soon, which will really speed
- up things!
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