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Subject: Re:  [Glasser Alan:  hardware for "Dragon's Lair"]
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Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 02:20:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 02:20:50 1983
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From:  Mark A. Rosenstein <mar@mit-borax>

Dragon's Lair uses a videodisc player with pre-recorded animated sequences
for its display.  It pauses whenever the player has to make a choice because
the laserdisc must seek a different track depending on your choice.  This
technique has been used at ARCMAC here at MIT for some time.  They have a
system which uses two identical videodiscs so that while one is playing the
other can seek ahead to the next sequence, eliminated must of the pauses in
the animation.
                                        -Mark