From: yarri@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Douglas Yarrington) Subject: Re: Japan Report, Part 1: May 1991, Fujitsu, NTT, Kanagawa Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1991 15:23:07 GMT Message-ID: Organization: Ohio State University Electrical Engineering In article <1991Sep24.153611.7609@xanadu.com> randy@xanadu.com (Randy Farmer) writes: > The HABITAT Project is an enhancement of the first Habitat >designed for Commodore by Randy Farmer and purchased by Fujitsu, ^^^^^^^^^^^^ <- That's [him] >adapted to Japanese tastes, and now sold as a public telecommuni- >cations service. Habitat was developed by Lucasfilm Games for Quantum Computer Services & later Licensed to Fujitsu. Primary attribution should go to Chip Morningstar who was ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the Designer, Project Leader, and Lead Programmer. I was Lead Frontend Programmer, Co-Designer, and original World Operator. There were many other people who made major contributions to the original product. It just so happens that, of these people, I am the most extroverted about Habitat. *********** BTW, Fujitsu Habitat should ship on the PC9801 (most popular PC in Japan) any day now. It won't be 'experimental' much longer. Randy, call me ignorant but what's the big deal with Habitat? Being so extroverted about _it_, would you mind describing _it_, especially _it's_ current incarnation at the hands of those crazy kids at Fujitsu. And then, what can you tell us about the current VR plans of George Lucas and his kids? Have they done anything else since _it_? Thanks man. --Douglas