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- From: dream!Ray_Hines@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (Ray Hines)
- Subject: Re: TECH: Mac-based VR?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.095635.29210@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:30:24 GMT
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- In a message dated Sun 20 Dec 92 6:34, Diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it
- (dieg wrote:
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- > Much along this same line, I have an Amiga 3000/25 with the 68030
- > processor and 68882 math coprocessor and am struggling to create a
- > homebrew VR setup that will function with my computer. My computer
- > has the raw processing power (after all, an A3000 is at the heart of
- > 'Dactyl Nightmare')
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- D> ... you seem to forgot that the A3000 in the Virtuality system DOES
- D> NOT generate any image. There are TWO Texas Instruments (34020 if I
- don't
- D> miss) graphic processors and their co-processors to manage the real
- time
- D> rendering, one for each eye.
- D> An A3000 could never deliver the same graphic speed...
- D> Sorry to crash your dreams.
- D> Of course you can dream something less.
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- Yes, however, they are plugged into the Amigas. Very nice setup.
- Check out the new Amiga 4000s though. very impressive.
-
- I have a magazine article. It's about the Virtuality system. W
- Industries is saying that the "Amiga controls everything" and that it
- is indeed the heart of the system. :)
-
- I say, Dream On! To Marcus.
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