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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
- References: <1992Aug29.183644.1855@disk.uucp>
- Message-ID: <jbono.030t@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:10:51 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 25
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- >I'm a proud Amiga owner but if we are ever to catch up its going to take more
- >than an 80,000$ package called Virtuality. I think this system could be
- >purchased for ALOT less than 80,000$ and it is programmable so you can make
- >your own areas and games. I remember asking how much it would cost to own a
- >system like that and I remember getting a figure of around 15,000$. I might
- >be wrong, but it wasn't totally unreasonable like 80,000$ It sounds like those
- >people are really trying to rip off arcade owners.
- >
- >Byron
- >
- >
- >--
- >Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\
- >specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\
- >uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\
- >"Great programs aren't written, they're fathered." \\\/ // \\ m i g a
-
- Well, for one thing, Virtuality has some *serious* horsepower under the hood in
- terms of graphics speed. It has two 34020s one for each eye. If you compared
- the speed of the Virtuality graphics with that of *any* other platform(even
- machines like RS/6Ks and Silicon Graphics systems) it would hold up extremely
- well. A 486 would look like a tinkertoy in comparison. Having seen VR up
- close, it is really something to see.
-
- John
-