(these notes unchanged since June 1994 and refer to earlier that year)
This is a quick view of some of the machines (by video capture). These pictures and comments are from my old place.. my new place is much more organized and you can traverse the entire place without stepping on a single wire. That's no fun so I left my old comments here.....
The place is kind of a mess, so it's hard to give you a good look (not to mention all the classified things that I'd have to edit out), but I'm thinking about a DOOM-style game based in real video from our home.. you get to have the fun that I have every day doing things like trying to make it around the wires and from one side of the room to another. I might even put the 7-11 and the bowling alley in there. Of course, I need to get a T1 first, but I'll make something out of whatever I can get. Keep watching.
The Paranoia family consists of several 486-based machines. There are 430 MHz, 88 MB of RAM (plus another 10 MB on the video cards), and just about 4 GB of disk space. (that X calculator does come in handy sometimes) The machines are networked by 10-base-T, but I currently only interface by keyboard and mouse. (they have quite a speed advantage) We run both linux and Microsloth operating systems, but despite Microsloth's every attempt to stop it, everything goes pretty smoothly. I mainly need Windows for Workgroups in order to run PhotoShop (for scanning) and various video capturing and editing utilities.. as soon as I can do those things under linux, I will. *grin*
KevinTX (kevintx@paranoia.com)