> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:28 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Another reason why the wii could take over the universe > > God, I loved Dactyl Nightmare! Except for the one on the pier in San > Fran (I think it was) where I totally bonked my head on a support > ibeam while playing.
Dude - it says right in the set-up instructions: make sure to clear the area in 5' in every direction! ;^) > I still have the sourcecode laying around on a dat tape somewhere. > > I also loved the doom mod that let you play in the pods.Did you ever > play that? That wasn't available for the original pods (the "1000's) - they were Amiga-based. The second series (the 2000's, smaller than the first) were PC based and could play "Doom". I did play it for a very short time at another facility but only long enough to see, not to really play. > And did you ever get to play it in a 5 wall cave instead of the > eyepieces? No... we only had the pods. The whole thing was the brainchild of this eccentric guy who had this old storefront space near downtown crossing in Boston. He wanted to create a "technology playground" upstairs (VR, games, etc) and a very cheap Internet Access (perhaps $1 for 3 hours) downstairs (this was in '95 - access would have been primarily on 386-based computers). The whole mess would have been volunteer run and supported. Before we even opened "CyberSmith" opened in Harvard Square. It was the first truly impressive cybercafé in the area. They had the newer Cyber 2000 pods, ski-machines, and sitdown kiosks for all home games systems, PC LAN games and the like. Everything was flat rate at $6 an hour (paid via pre-paid card readers) and it was really impressive. At their height they had three locations and focused on large motorized arcade machines (skiing, shooting, driving, etc). Shortly after that we let the lease on the CyberPods go and focused on cheap/free Internet Access for the homeless... still very nice but we didn't get to play "Dactyl Nightmare" anymore. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249887 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
