Interactive Laservision demo setup used for instruction technology at the UT TO department. It consists of a controllable Philips Laservision VLP player, an Apple microcomputer with Nubus slots, a Nubus Video overlay card MIC System II from UK company VideoLogic (1990), where training instructions can be interactively merged with the video output from the laservision player.
Specification
Philips VP410 Laservision disc drive
Apple Macintosh IIcx microcomputer with Motorola 68030 CPU.
Nubus video overlay card DVA-4000/Macintosh Digital Video Adapter with MIC System II software from VideoLogic used for controlling video, audio and mixing video and graphics.
The VideoLogic 8-bit graphics card (also Nubus) is used for graphics.
The MIC producer software is enabling programming in HyperCard, SuperCard, Macromedia Director 2.0 and Authorware Professional. Together with control of supported videodisk player.
Compact Disc Interactive player CDI602. Professional CDI player with 3.5" floppy disk.
First stand-alone CD-i player for professional applications. Identical to the CDI 601, but equipped with a floppy disk drive for additional storage capabilities.
The system could not be extended with a Digital Video cartridge.
This unit was used for software development and debugging
Specification
CPU: Motorola/Philips 68070
Video decoder: No MPEG1 option possible
Storage: 3.5" floppy disk
Video: PAL (625 lines) and NTSC (525 lines)