22-02-2025, 01:56 AM
If you mean with the mirror effect of the continents behind the globe, then, No. it went straight from the mechanical model to the COW electronic version with just the globe..
In theory, I think you could, with a new sequence data set and new background images create an output something similar to the mirror globe.
The fact that everything was stored in Eprom should have made it future proof with graphic updates "just" a matter of swapping out roms (or cards thereof) however after only 6 years the COWs were replaced by the Lambie Nairn swirly globes generated on high end graphics systems and played out from Laservision discs.
I'm curious how much the whole COW project actually cost, the 6000 odd 27128 Eproms would have been a fair wedge in 1985
In theory, I think you could, with a new sequence data set and new background images create an output something similar to the mirror globe.
The fact that everything was stored in Eprom should have made it future proof with graphic updates "just" a matter of swapping out roms (or cards thereof) however after only 6 years the COWs were replaced by the Lambie Nairn swirly globes generated on high end graphics systems and played out from Laservision discs.
I'm curious how much the whole COW project actually cost, the 6000 odd 27128 Eproms would have been a fair wedge in 1985
