System afterlife

[Demon Cleaner]

Does it actually look like you are watching something displayed in front of you? or more like you are actually watching something projected directly into your eyes?

That's difficult to say, as your eyes have to acclimate, the first time it's quite exceptional, it seems that you are looking at a very big screen or a canvas. But after some time, your eyes will hurt, as you don't have the habit. And I would also say that watching it for more than 2 hours is impossible. It's more like a toy for us big kiddies, that was also the reason I bought it

I got mine for 300$ at eBay, did not buy it new of course. My model was priced at 2000$ when it came out, there are different models existing of the EyeTrek.

[Harrison]

$300 is still quite expensive. Especially for something you probably hardly use. Although for collecting it's quite a cool piece of hardware.

[v85rawdeal]

I would still have loved to get my hands on a full Konix system (with chair)

Now that looked like a cool piece of kit, with a whopping 25 channels of sound(!) and a flippy dosk as well.

And it was, if I remember correctly, Welsh!!!

[Harrison]

The Welsh haven't been too successful over the years regarding computer hardware have there. Remember the Sam Coupe?

[AlexJ]

The Dragon 32 Computer was another commercial failure from Wales.

[J T]

Over on the WoS boards boards, I've seen quite a bit of love for the Vectrex. Anyone here ever seen one, or even better tried one?

[Harrison]

Over on the WoS boards boards, I've seen quite a bit of love for the Vectrex. Anyone here ever seen one, or even better tried one?

I've only ever seen a Vectrex in books and magazines. A vector based console would be really cool.

[Harrison]

The Dragon 32 Computer was another commercial failure from Wales.

I remember the Dragon. A friend of mine had one and it wasn't a bad computer, just not supported by any well known software developers, so it had next to no software. If I remember rightly it has a more advanced CPU than any other 8-bit system at the time and even have some 16-bit abilities. And it was compatible with a lot of TRS-80 software.