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BONUS VIDEO: Tinkering With a Weird Touch Screen iMac G3!

🕑 Added 2023-08-04 17:00:26 +0000 UTC

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Minki the Avali

I remember a friend of mine playing quake 3 arena with a wacom tablet instead of a mouse and he almost always got a headshot with it. How he learned to do this? idk.

Stuart Castle

We used to have an ELO touch screen where I used to work. IT was just a Philips VGA monitor with the ELO touch hardware. One day, I installed quake and the ELO drivers on a spare relatively powerful PC. The touch wasn't really useful for moving, so I used WASD for that, but it was amazing for killing enemies. Point at enemies and they died.

CobaltRetroTech

I feel the comments on the fragile plastics of the G3. Mine is falling apart too. It's gotten to the point where I am afraid to take it apart before I can source a new frame

Wally Hackenslacker

Maybe Warcraft 2 or Diablo might be a bit more playable with the touch screen? 🤔 Anyway, this is something I would have never expected to see!

MATTHEW DROPCO

So were these things. used for business kyosks? or in museum that had interactive kyosks? (Which you just mentioned after I typed it) Maybe it was used in a school for some sort of special needs? I mean we take for granted how many different times out in the world over the years that including a computer to help sell or explain something to a customer or visitor. I'm sure it would work okay for a basic art program or childrens educational interactive stuff. I wonder if you could play chess and it would let you pick up pieces as if it was virtual? It might work better than FPC games. That's for sure.