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|    Re: 3d / virtual reality BBS    |
|    10 May 13 20:57:42    |
      Am Montag, 31. Oktober 1994 13:20:26 UTC+1 schrieb Gregor Kwaczynski:       > tww2568@venus.tamu.edu (Tom-D-Tek 7Bu)) writes:       >        > > In article <36rg60$3gn@bs33n.staffs.ac.uk>, cm3hirjd@soc.staffs.ac.uk       (R.Dave       > > >Wouldn't it be better to have the comms software you use to dial up the        > > >3D bbs to have all those graphics files installed. Then the BBS software        > > >could send a code to the host software which activated certain features        > > >of the program. This saves downloading the entire graphics files but        > > >does mean the user has to call via your special software. Still if its        > > >something that specialised you want that shouldn't be too much of a        > > >problem to code. If you had a sample built into the comms program that        > > >shouted 'bad move' your bbs software could send a signal to the comms        > > >package telling it to play that sample that was in memory.       > > >        > > >I've been thinking of writing bbs software like this for ages but have        > > >never seen the demand... perhaps now it might be more realistic......       > > >        > > >        > > >RiCH DAVEY       > >        > >        > > Hey Rich... this kind of stuff HAS existed for qges... How do you think       PRO       > >        > > Check out Skypix (old attempt to standardize GUI BBS°.. The       > > latest attempt that I have seen is called RIP. Rip graphics are quite       nice,       > > but I do not know if it can handle bit maps... I know SkyPix even did       SOUND!       > >        > > Tom D Tek       > >        > >        > > __________________________________________________________       _______________       > > / Thomas W. Weeks | __ Commodore Amiga 500/030       40MHz \       > > | Authorized C= Technician | /// Hacked Into Black Tower       Case,        > > | Full Time EET Student | __ /// 5M RAM, SyQuest 44M, 160M       SCSI        > > | Texas A&M University | \\\/// IBM 286 Hardware       Emulator,        > > | tww2568@venus.tamu.edu OR | \XX/ Home Brew Audio A/D,       HP48GX        > > | thomas.weeks@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu "Only Amiga Makes It       Possible!"        > > \______________________________|___________________________       _______________/       > >        >        > tom, what do you think Roboboard, Roboboard/FX, Compuserve, etc. works like        > ? YES, it is a graphical interface, but no VR (=Virtual Reality, look at       > DOOM, or some other kind of these texture-mapped VR-Arcade-Games, and you'll       see       > what they think of when they use the phrase "3d/VR-BBS".       > see you somewhere...       > Neurokese       >        > --       > desertoe@ponton.hanse.de * Gregor Kwaczynski * Ponton European Media Art Lab              “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are       different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists       and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of       solitude, from the        age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! ”              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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