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From: MORRIS@KSUVM.BITNET (Vince Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: 3D ON THE 8-BITS
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Date: 23 Aug 88 01:00:00 GMT
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After hearing so much on how to do 3D on the Atari 8-bits, and being
thoroughly convinced that it (3D) can be done on such an awesome (for it's
day) computer, I went to my nearest Kay-Bee toy store and checked out the
Sega LCD glasses.  Has anyone else dared to look at the hardware?!?
I was a little shocked to find that the glasses terminated in what everyone
knows as a headphone plug.  Humm...where's the 9 pin female connector?
Well luckily, also included in the box, there was a gadget that plugs into the
Sega ROM card slot (the ones the size of credit cards or so) and into the
gadget plugs the glasses.  It seems that not only do we have to write
3D code (of course we would have had to do that anyway...), but we must also
have to build a hardware hack to use the (cheap?) Sega LCD glasses.  We'd
probably be better off if the people who make the ST's 3D glasses lowered
their prices or came out with an 8-bit version; at least we know they would
be semi-compatable to compatible w/o a hardware hack.  I'm in the process
of trying to obtain specifications on the glasses.  Whether or not Sega
just hands that stuff out to interested parties is yet to be known (that's
why I'm 'in the process').  If I hear from them I'll post a summary of
what they say.

Sincerely

Vince Morris

MORRIS at KSUVM.BITNET