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- From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.205322.3114@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 20:53:22 -0600
- References: <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>
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- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>, geac@uunet.UU.NET writes:
-
- [deletia...]
- >
- > In terms of the simulation, it's what you'd expect. Polygon-style
- > graphics updated fairly frequently. The game is a "war" game... you
- > try to blast away the other opponent, without getting blasted. There
- > are computer generated things too... including teridactyl-like birds
- > that carry you off. It seems to use most of the bandwidth and power
- > of the 3000, though.
- >
- > Now some questions:
- >
- > How many of these have been seen? This can't be local to
- > Toronto...
- >
-
- It was probably a prototype of Dactyl Nightmare, designed by W Industries
- of Leicester, England, based on a system called Virtuality, written by
- Spectrum Holobyte, and distributed by Horizon entertainment in the US.
-
-
- > I see there is a delay between head movement and computer
- > response. It's not too bad, but it would break the spell for me. Is
- > there a way to (possibly) avoid some of this? How much is normal for
- > more sky-high priced systems?
-
- The rotation delay is standard for most VR systems, and researchers are
- trying to come up with an acceptable solution.
-
- >
- > I was told that the system was about $80,000. Now the 3000 is
- > about $5000-$10,000 depending on what's required. Is this type of
- > hardware normally that expensive (visor, joypad, etc...) ?
-
- Well, its a modified a3000, w/a 25mhz '030 * 68882 driving two
- parallel-pipeline TI 34020 graphics processors w/two 40MFlop TI 34082
- RISC coprocessors. The software is stored on a 550MB CD-ROM and a 100MB
- hard disk.
-
- List price? ~$65,000 u.s.
-
- They can be found at:
- The Quarters, Kirkland, WA, Timeout, Springfield, VA,
- Forest Fair Mall, Cincinatti, OH, Adventure, Crestwood, MO,
- SmithHaven Mall, Long Island, NY, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
-
- Call 1-800-ILLUSION for updates...
-
- (BTW, this was extracted from MONDO 2000, Ish #6, pp 120-121).
-
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