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Other Atari
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In addition, a special exercise cycle version of Battlezone was created within Corporate Research Engineering by Tim McGuinness in 1982. |
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Another interesting product was this articulated robotic arm, connected via the 850 parallel interface. Driven by RC servo actuators, it was able to rotate at 5 points. Though is was not powerful enough to actually lift much mass, it was ideally suited for learning numerical control and robotics. It was one of the amazing projects to come out of Research Engineering's model shop. It was eventually manufactured for a brief period by a separate company in Arizona. | |||||||||
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| One of the most innovative projects was the creation of a LaserDisc based interactive point of purchase kiosk that was interfaced to an Atari 1200XL. At its heart was a monstrous Pioneer 1st generation VP1000 flat-bed top-loading LaserDisc player. At right are the two versions of the ERIC LaserDiscs from my collection. |
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A Design for a digital trackball for the
Atari Home Computers Designed and prototyped by Tim McGuinness 1982 |
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The work that was done on the ERIC concept was later ported to the creation of the FireFox (after the movie of the same name) LaserDisc based coin-op arcade game. | |||||||||
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Puffer Project Originally Conceived by Tim McGuinness while at Atari Corporate Research At right are the original project documents. Copyright © 2003 Tim McGuinness |
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Victoria Project Originally Conceived by Tim McGuinness while at Atari Corporate Research At right are the original project documents. Copyright © 2003 Tim McGuinness |
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