Ralf shares the first 3D experience he had almost 20 years ago. Anyone remembers good old Amiga? Take a look at some impressive screenshots from that time period.
Did you ever think when this 3D thing may have started?
Back in those years I was working with mailboxes (not the one in
front of your door - stuff like fido, Magicnet, …)
In 1991/1992 we did finally develop the magicnet-fido-usenet
email gateway. Wich by then did mean, you could email the
uucp-agent and it would send you a file list or uuencoded files via
email. Sometimes it did even work.
For that to be possible, contacts between industry specialists
have been essential, so 1991 I joined a community that did
build the subnet e.v. - and (remeber slow modems) we needed to
share knowledge about software or copy shareware. At that time I
saw something wonderful on an Amiga (old computer, geeks
remember!).
They told me, that this was a real cylinder in a 3D engine (not
networked thingy like today). It was called "virtual world". I had
no clue of Amiga DOS, I was working with CP/M, Novel-DOS, NWLight
and Xenix/286 by that time. Did someone out there work with the
Amiga graphics engine?
Here are some impressive screenshots from a virtual world on an
Amiga, almost from 20 years ago!
I just found
http://www.landspurg.net/tomsoft/Demos/VirtualWorlds/index.html -
so if you want to dive deepter into that, have a look at that
webpage by Thomas Landspurg.
cheers,
Ralf