2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
9:28 a.m.
On 02/10/2008 17:03, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Let me see if I can remember this correctly..
The Domesday system was a Master Turbo with a SCSI card, wired up to a A
Philips VP412 Laserdisc player that had been modified to add a SCSI
interface and a chroma-keyed genlock. The Master could boot off the LD,
load the software, then play back a video clip, still image or what have
you.
Then there were a few arcade games that used Laserdiscs for cutscenes
and such, but I suspect those are off-topic for cc{talk,tech}.
Yes, and various CAL systems using laserdiscs. For example, in the
early-to-mid 1980s Jaguar Cars issued every authorised dealer/service
agent with a training system consisting of an IBM AT with a genlocked
video card, a Pioneer laservision player, a high-res Sony monitor, and a
bunch of laserdiscs that explained all the service and maintenance
procedures.
The police used a training system involving laserdiscs playing various
scenarios for training firearms officers with live ammunition (I got to
play with one once, at Saville's, outside York, around 1987). The video
images were projected onto a screen which consisted of two layers of
paper on huge rolls, and the player stopped when the microphones picked
up the sound of the shot(s). A detector then located the bullet hole in
the screen, and after assessment, the two rolls were wound a fraction of
an inch in opposite directions to obscure the hole and prepare for the
next scenario. Now that's interactive video :-)
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