+Philsan Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 After Solid States, here's a topic dedicated to two other interesting 3D applications, 3-D Supergraphics (1980) and Atari World (1981) by United States of America. Images by ebayer videogames-orbit ("stolen" for historical purposes). I recorded two videos of applications demos. Applications were conceived to run on NTSC machines, therefore to see colors you have to use NTSC machines or enable artifacting on emulators. 3-D Supergraphics Atari World You can download the applications on @www.atarimania.com (3-D Supergraphics - Atari World). Unfortunately Atari World manual isn't available there. I found it on ebay but it costs 149.99 Euro. I hope someone interested would buy and scan it for the community. If you have more infos and memories please share them. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) Incredible, I've searched for 3D "CAD" programs for years for the Atari, only owning Super 3D Plotter and after years of searching the net eventually finding the mostly whole (minus a update or two) Chromacad 3D system. Never once did I come across any mention of these applications. Though I haven't looked for a while now. But they weren't on Atarimania when I was looking, unless they were mis-classified or something. They look to be more primitive than Super 3D Plotter II and definitely have nothing on the amazing ChromaCAD, but I want to "collect"* and try them all. Thank you very much. *at least .ATR and PDF's. The price for Atari World on feeBay is a bit too steep, especially when the software isn't the most advanced for the computer. I wonder if my complete, original Super 3D Plotter II is worth as much, I'm sure it's as rare? Edited March 24, 2020 by Gunstar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) derp, realized this was indeed SuperGraphics and not just the port of Atari World. It was the first implementation of a CIO device, outside of Atari, something I wish that Atari had fostered more (by providing e.g. a skeleton for relocatable driver code) -Thom Edited March 24, 2020 by tschak909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Simonson Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 FYI, there is a scan of the Atari World manual on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AtariWorld 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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