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Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by rbanffy on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:47AM (#8400675)
Playing Asteroids on a building would be kind of neat. Has anybody tried that?
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Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by joezydeco on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:57AM (#8400725)
Yup. There were some laser enthusiasts that connected their projection systems to MAME and created Laser MAME.

Laser galvo speed is a big factor in making it work effectively but there have been some great demos, like John Knoll (from ILM) playing Atari Star Wars on a theatre screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4REBVgm4Nc

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