27 Aug
2007
27 Aug
'07
5:13 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
Ethan's CoSI anecdote reminds me of an Amiga-based
mech battle
multiplayer I tried in Chicago, but I don't think that was the
same Virtuality system.
Yes. The mech thing was at North Pier in the early 1990s and was
textured. I also remember it being incredibly slow (no more than about
5 frames per second). I remember that the mech thing was controlled by
one or more 286s running netware (I caught one of them booting up before
the game).
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