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cjm
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Post subject: Re: Digital Research Incorporated Vidlink Posted: 30 Nov 2015, 03:40 |
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happycube wrote: I don't see why it wouldn't have come out. Since I couldn't find any more info about it I wasn't sure. Hard to tell if it was vaporware or just not well documented.
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museld
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Post subject: Re: Digital Research Incorporated Vidlink Posted: 02 Dec 2015, 03:03 |
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I don't believe it ever did.
There were other Laserdisc to computer units out there. I remember one for the Atari ST that allowed you to play Dragon's Lair, however, not as an action game. You used text commands like a text adventure, and then the action would play out on screen. Not "turn left", but actual sentences and stuff.
There was another unit in Europe that I believe was for the Amiga (and maybe ST), sold on eBay from time to time, with actual arcade lasersdiscs like Thayers Quest, Firefox, Dragons Lair, Space Ace, etc.
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Post subject: Re: Digital Research Incorporated Vidlink Posted: 02 Dec 2015, 10:32 |
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museld wrote: I don't believe it ever did.
There were other Laserdisc to computer units out there. I remember one for the Atari ST that allowed you to play Dragon's Lair, however, not as an action game. You used text commands like a text adventure, and then the action would play out on screen. Not "turn left", but actual sentences and stuff.
There was another unit in Europe that I believe was for the Amiga (and maybe ST), sold on eBay from time to time, with actual arcade lasersdiscs like Thayers Quest, Firefox, Dragons Lair, Space Ace, etc. I remember the interface, it was for ST and Amiga (maybe even other machines) and there was a big test spanning several pages in a german computer magazine which also included a flyer about LD players and available movies. The magazine was called "ASM" and would test games for all systems back at that time. Maybe 1990/1991ish. Later I met someone who owned that system and had bought it together with a Pioneer player (a PAL only player). He still had the floppy disks for Thayer's Quest and Dragon's Lair, but the interface was no longer to be found.
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Post subject: Re: Digital Research Incorporated Vidlink Posted: 04 Dec 2015, 06:08 |
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museld wrote: There were other Laserdisc to computer units out there. I remember one for the Atari ST that allowed you to play Dragon's Lair, however, not as an action game. You used text commands like a text adventure, and then the action would play out on screen. Not "turn left", but actual sentences and stuff. That sounds a great deal like the abortive RDI Halcyon.
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