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- From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
- Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.084153.8230@canon.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 08:41:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>
- Reply-To: laukee@canon.co.uk
- Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
- Lines: 19
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- geac@uunet.UU.NET writes:
-
- [ ... on the Virtuality system ... ]
-
- > At first, I thought this might be SGI showing off. Not that I
- >don't like SGI, I just don't have any hope of affording one. Then I
- >noticed the keyboard on top of the box was a standard Amiga keyboard.
- >I was very intregued. Apparently, then whole thing is run on an Amiga
- >3000. In fact, since you are fighting against one other player, there
- >are two Amiga 3000's to each setup --- connected together in some
- >way... but I could not tell how as the cabling was obscured. My
- >interest was definately piqued here, though, as I can definately
- >afford a 3000.
-
- The Amiga is used for generating sound, hosting "the rest" of
- the system, and very little else. Buying a 3000 is not going to get you
- very close to a Virtuality system.
-
- David
-