A Report on the presentation by W.Industries.

© Chris Hand, 1991

DEMONSTRATION

For the last 50 minutes of the evening Chris Yewdall supervised use of the "stand-up" games unit they had brought along. The rush to "have a go" was overwhelming to say the least, and with the length of each game being 3 minutes (this is hard-wired into the code!), progress seemed slow. While waiting, the eager crowd had chance to chat further with Mr Yewdall. WI apparently have a non-disclosure agreement with "a chip-set manufacturer" regarding some new graphics chips to be used in the future. Yewdall said that WI were the first to put a TMS34020 in "a product" and as such "ended up doing a lot of debugging" for TMS. Mr Yewdall also said that WI are working closely with Matsushita who supply the LCD screens: better resolution displays could be easily substituted since the whole visor is a modular design, with the edge connectors allowing quick replacement of devices.