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Maybe that one was "Skycopter I"? http://www.weirdstuffantiques.com/sitebuilder/images/red-white-blue_SkyCopter-198x232.jpg And that's how the Jaguar was used in the Skycopter II cabinet: http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/uploads/images/mgc/goatstore/carousel_jag2.JPG (Didn't embed the image, beca...

Is the 3DO capable to do chip generated music? If I got the data sheet right, it's only sound dedicated chip is the custom made CISC DSP chip, which is "only" able to manipulate and decompress sampled sound data. So, no synthesizer, no midi, no wavetable but only audiotracks and sampled audio data f...

Hmm, dont know - couldn't find any clues about that.

I guess there has been a "Skycopter" kids ride before, which
didn't utilize the Atari hardware.

So the Atari Jaguar game was the second Skycopter ride, though
the first Skycopter on the Jaguar.

Alright. Sorry for talking off-topic that much! Tried to find out something more about Skycopter and only very little can be found: In a really interesting twist to the CoJag legacy, Scott also reveals that unmodified Jaguars were used as the main controller for two "kiddie rides". The Jaguar was us...

Opinion shared.

I am not quite sure if I get your point. Hellraiser III uncut, after all I've told you, is censored here as well. No regular shops, open for people of all age, are even allowed to show the cases in their shelves. Okay, you can buy it, but you could also buy "Golden Axe". Usually TV is here more rest...

Hellraiser III Red Edition. Okay! But... :wink: 1. This movie is not a German production - the Red Edition is just a "Directors Cut". 2. The DVD is forbidden to be sold to people under the age of 18. 3. This movie, if broadcasted on TV, would be heavily cut. Lets say about 10 minutes shorter, I gue...

Copy & Paste.

...has anyone ever seen the end credits shown when you win the game? Obviously those guys still had some kilobytes left on the cartridge. ;) --- ALL DONE! congratulations!! you've completed l e m m i n g s everyone here at dma design salutes you as a master lemmings player not many people will compl...

Nice!

I never could understand your censorship... you have some of the most gory gut-wrenching films, the hardest of the hardcore porn and yet a cartoony video game gets censored. All true, except for the most gory gut-wrenching movies. ;) Honestly, can you name one? As far as I know, the US TV is much m...

Hehe, by the way: You guys may have heard of the strict censorship here in Germany. This is why "blood" in video games was often recolored to green e.g., to make the enemies aliens instead of humans. Or in Mortal Kombat 1 it was grey, so the blood wasn't blood anymore but sweat. Yeah, pretty ridicul...

sneth wrote:it was a kids ride game. I don't think they care about graphics.

Are you serious?
The only reason why I loved "Bubble Bobble" as a 5-years old was
because of it's -for that time- photorealistic graphics!

Alright, I've just seen it on YouTube.

Gee............ Looks more promising in a slideshow
somehow than in motion.

First time I hear about that game!

Wasn't very popular, I guess...?

http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_page ... SCREENSHOT

Did the CD add-on provide any more hardware capabilities to the Jaguar like the Sega Mega CD did? (more RAM, ...etc)

Skyhammer

Native (unreleased)

Because 7 8 9.

Come on guys, cheer up! It's true, there's a lot of bad people *everywhere* in the world and from time to time you can't keep them from crossing your way. If you let them spoil your mood, you let them win. I wouldn't like to grant that victory those people! This is really one of the best 3DO resourc...

Wasn't Bioshock 2 also released for that console that could only play Pong?

Hehe, this advertising would have totally convinced me back then. :lol: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1627&image=2 In this scanned cabinet manual you can also find the detailed PCB's schematics, in case of anyone's interest: http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames...

Looks pretty good!

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=778

I remember reading about the Amiga's popularity in Germany, it was always an intriguing and I suppose exotic thing to us Brits. Yes, I guess Germany was the country where the Amiga computers celebrated their major success. Much because they've proven to be quite versatile and superior to Atari and ...

3. New Users are encourage to properly introduce themselves. Allright then, let's have some lines about myself - I guess after being a member for almost a year now, one could call it overdue regarding the forum rules. :) I am 28 years old, living in Berlin and I studied Cello and Philosophy. I grew...

I write some perfomance test samples and found that the real rate of pixel processing is about 9.2 million pixels per second. So, if I use 530 polys in scene (32 pix in width and 32 pix in height, 6bpp, distorted) then framerate is about 16-17 frames per second. So realistic numbers are (if I do th...

It looks great! :) So it uses full hardware 3D acceleration with texture mapping and lighting effects at 300 polygons, right? Did you write that program in assembler code? What would you say how many polygons at the same time are possible on the 3DO? Oh, and is there a download link for that demo (e...

(A bit off topic)

I've seen your 3DO 3d-engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxp64LA ... re=related

Does it use any 3d acceleration from the CLIO/MADAM custom chips,
or is it purely software based rendering using only the ARM cpu?

I think why Goldstar used copy protection in its console - it's because they were the manufacturer of 3DO software. In this way Goldstar protect their business. It is difficult to say what type of protection used in the console. The patent describes the use of a microcontroller, which decides the l...

The games are surely a matter of opinion, but I do believe that the SNES was a very nice and versatile piece of hardware! The N64 reminded me of a VW Beetle with a Porsche Engine - generally much horsepower but heavily limited due to cartridges and only 4kb of texture RAM. No idea about the Gamecube...