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Very interesting, i've just yesterday wrote about the successor of EVA, the TravelPilot IDS [1] which was commercially available. But I didn't knew that there w
by sllabres 2y ago
Very interesting, i've just yesterday wrote about the successor of EVA, the TravelPilot IDS [1] which was commercially available. But I didn't knew that there was another system 5 years ahead.
Both (Etak and TravelPilot IDS) seems to use kind of a vector display. Does someone know if this is for better resolution or better contrast, or both or if there is another reason?
https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/navigation-system-travelpilot-ids-1989-60605.html https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/navigation-sys...
- KingOfCoders 2y agoThere is no conventional resolution to vector displays (though monitors have limitations). Reminds me at one point in time I owned a Vectrex, which had much cleaner lines than any other console, even much better than my later, much more expensive Amiga or (early) PCs. "This Vectrex does things I never thought possible" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dv15YRAmzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dv15YRAmzM Only got that feeling back with Retina displays.
- bsenftner 2y agoI worked at the company that made the Vectrex, Jay Smith was a wonderful guy. Super brilliant too: the world of PSX Bowling games was his creation, he wrote the first bowling physics sim using Excel, and we hired some guy with a PhD in Statistics who wrote Jay's algorithm in assembly for the PSX, and the 3D bowling genre was launched.
- KingOfCoders 2y ago<3