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From: schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: REAL Dragon's Lair..
Message-ID: <15973@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 90 14:50:28 GMT
References: <49913@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <49913@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>     We are all familiar with the version of Dragon's Lair that was 
>released by Readysoft.  Myself, I was very disappointed in small size 
>of the game released by Readysoft.  Part of the fun in Dragon's Lair 
>was it's multitude of rooms and its randomness: things which no Amiga 
>version yet has.  I had an idea of making a true version of 
>Dragon's Lair with the help of Amigavision.  This version would use 
>the actual laserdisks that the arcade version used.  Since AmigaVision 
>allows for easy control of a laserdisk along with the ability for user 
>interaction, a real verison of Dragon's Lair might be possible. 
>     There is one pressing problem however: Where would I be able to 
>get the laserdisks that were used in the original arcade machine?  I 
>remember reading about a company a year or so ago that was selling the 
>laserdisks to owners of Atari ST computers for a similar project.  
>Does anyone know where I could come across these disks or disks from 
>any other similar laserdisk game (Dragon's Lair II, Space Ace, etc..)?
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.  E-Mail if you like..
>

Interestingly enough this has already been done. There was a demo of
Amigavision at this year's AmiExpo in Anaheim and the guy who demoed
it had done this. It was a fully implemented version of the game
using the original laserdisc and Amigavision. It seemed to work as
well as the arcade game. The only difference was that instead of
joystick control you had to click on one of four "direction arrows"
on the screen with the mouse.

I don't remember the guy's name who demoed it, but I believe he is
the editor of Amiga World. I do remember however that he said
it took him a LOOOOOONG time to track down and get a hold of the
original laserdisk.

Good Luck.


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