chymes@uri.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) (06/14/91)
I HAVE NEVER USED OR PROGRAMMED A SET OF X-SPECS that said, here is some of what I know about them and Hiatex, the manufactuer. Hiatex has moved to South Carolina. Thier address is Hiatex Resources PO box 20609 Charleston SC 29413-0609 But they are really in Mount Pleasant South Carolina Thier phone is Voice: 1-803-881-7518 Fax:BBS 1-803-881-7522 (I have not called this number) I talked to Shaun Glisson, and he said: Hiatex is still making X-Xpecs for Amiga with a interface box software,and devo kit, Nintendo bare and OEM for several companies. X-specs will work on a A3000, but not in any non-interlace mode. The X-Specs software are not 2.0 compatable, but they might work anyway. You can buy a set from them for $125 or (an old version) from Creative Computers for 94.95; The Devo Kit is $50 and is back orderd, it allows you to control the specs and do memory management, but the mathematical software for the generation of steroscopic images is not available (but will be... sure). They also send some goodies like a tech report from a sigraph, and references to other articles. Finally, several people, including myself, are working on X-Specs projects, if you are too, or did in the past, or are considering it for the future, email me, and we all can compare notes and share info. Charles Hymes
hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) (06/15/91)
Any idea what happened to an X-Specs accessory package called "Mondo Video"? I picked up a demonstration disk of it at Lion Kuntz' San francisco Amiga Festival show thing back in July '89 (held at same time as SF Devcon) and the A-Squared folks were going to market it. In the following months I tried to contact A-Squared numerous times by phone but always got met by an answering machine and was never called back despite leaving my number a half dozen times. I'm still trying to find out if this software was ever released.. I've never seen it advertised anywhere and have given up trying to contact A-Squared. The demo disk had some fascinating stuff on it for X-Specs owners. Thanks for any/all info.