26 Aug
2007
26 Aug
'07
6:47 p.m.
No idea whether he is truely serious or not, but those interested should contact him (see
below).
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
lamanchaoslo <lamanchaoslo at hotmail.com> wrote: To: Commodore_Amiga_Retro at
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From: "lamanchaoslo" <lamanchaoslo at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:30:16 -0000
Subject: [Commodore_Amiga_Retro] CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
I'm considering selling a 1000CS VR System. At the moment I have two machines that we
are
about to combine into one working machine.
More on the machine here: http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/virtuality.html
Please contact me for more info on the condition of the machines, offers etc.
26 Aug
26 Aug
9:05 p.m.
New subject: CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
On 8/26/07, Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
No idea whether he is truely serious or not, but those interested should contact him (see
below).
lamanchaoslo <lamanchaoslo at hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm considering selling a 1000CS VR System. At the moment I have two machines that
we are
about to combine into one working machine.
More on the machine here: http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/virtuality.html
Wow... I remember playing on a pair of those at COSI, the Center of
Science and Industry, in Columbus at their Virtual Reality exhibit
12-ish years ago.
My recollection was that they came with Amiga 3000s, but I wonder if
the app would be any smoother or faster responding running on an
A4000. I presume the TMS34010-based video card would migrate over,
but I don't recall if they did anything funny with the A3000 itself,
like custom boot ROMs or any shortcuts that would prevent dropping in
a 68040 or faster.
I think one of these made an appearance in "Hackers" (1995).
-ethan
9:42 p.m.
New subject: CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
Interesting, I wasn't aware the earlier systems ran on Amiga's, all of
the later systems ran on stock PC's with special ISA bus cards
installed. I have a full SU2000 system (less the stand) here in the
office which I plan to put up onto Ebay shortly.
The Company who built them was called Virtuality and they were
contracted by Atari to produce the JagVR System. I have a working
prototype of one of the systems. Virtuality made Missile Command 3D
for both their Virtuality systems and for the Jaguar 64 (it will worth
with and without the JagVR helmet & tracker.
Curt
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 8/26/07, Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
No idea whether he is truely serious or not, but
those interested should contact him (see below).
lamanchaoslo <lamanchaoslo at hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm considering selling a 1000CS VR System. At the moment I have two machines that
we are
about to combine into one working machine.
More on the machine here: http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/virtuality.html
Wow... I remember playing on a pair of those at COSI, the Center of
Science and Industry, in Columbus at their Virtual Reality exhibit
12-ish years ago.
My recollection was that they came with Amiga 3000s, but I wonder if
the app would be any smoother or faster responding running on an
A4000. I presume the TMS34010-based video card would migrate over,
but I don't recall if they did anything funny with the A3000 itself,
like custom boot ROMs or any shortcuts that would prevent dropping in
a 68040 or faster.
I think one of these made an appearance in "Hackers" (1995).
-ethan
27 Aug
27 Aug
6:15 a.m.
New subject: CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
At 11:42 PM 8/26/2007, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Interesting, I wasn't aware the earlier systems ran
on Amiga's, all of the later systems ran on stock PC's with special ISA bus cards
installed.
Typical Atari historical revisionist blinders. :-)
I remember playing the pterodactyl game in Commodore's booth at a show.
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.
- John
7:39 a.m.
New subject: CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
Revisionist??? I am not changing history, I'm merely stating I wasn't
aware that the earlier versions of the Virtuality systems (which you are
correct - they were under a different firm before becoming Virtuality)
were on Amiga's...
:-p
;-)
Curt
John Foust wrote:
At 11:42 PM 8/26/2007, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Interesting, I wasn't aware the earlier
systems ran on Amiga's, all of the later systems ran on stock PC's with special
ISA bus cards installed.
Typical Atari historical revisionist blinders. :-)
I remember playing the pterodactyl game in Commodore's booth at a show.
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.
- John
5:13 p.m.
New subject: CS1000 Virtual Reality system for sale!
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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