Subject: Re: Where_to_get_a_PG_in_New_York_or_Boston

From: [email-masked] (Ethan Dicks)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 11:00:00 EDT

:Power glove: probably Toys'R'Us, or any big store that carries
:Nintendo stuff.
:
:Sega: no idea.  I bought an Amiga product called "Haitex X-Specs"
:from Haitex in Charleston, SC.  Here's the phone & fax #s:
:803-881-7518,-7522.  The latter may also be a BBS, hooked up
:with a fax/modem answer switchbox.  The Haitex needs no hacking
:to run: you hook it to a parallel port via three wires: 5V
:power, Gnd, and left/right control.  It used to list for $110.
:It's actually a Nintendo 3D specs packaged with the circuitry
:in a cigarette-pack sized box.  I haven't actually brought it
:up yet.
:
:Lance Norskog
:
As a user of the Amiga product "X-Specs 3D", I can recommend them.  The
interface box is about half the size of a cigarette box, with a DB9 Amiga
mouse connector on one end and two 1/8" Stereo jacks on the other (like for
a set of Walkman headphones).  Multiple sets of glasses can be plugged in,
either directly into the box or via Y-cables.  I do not know the maximum
number of glasses allowed.  The Sega glasses are not as nice as the ones
which Haitex sells, but are plug compatible.  The Haitex supplied goggles
have an elastic headstrap and ample room for large pairs of glasses.  The
Sega glasses look like a funky pair of sunglasses.

Haitex has not exactly been agressive with the marketing of the glasses,
but there is a bit of stuff for the Amiga.  The glasses come with sample
still pictures, a game called "Space Spuds" and an interactive 3D molecule
viewer from U of Cinti.  There are also additional pictures on archive
sites and I have heard of a developer package, but I have never seen it.

-ethan