Video Arcade Machines (And Assorted 1980s Computer Equipment)

Xenomorphine

I'd like to create some tribute art for 'The Last Starfighter', 'Wargames' and 'Tron'. Can we have an array of arcade video machines? Could be very cool to have emissive Iray screens, so that light can be shown shining out over a player's face in a darkened room.

At least one or two in the iconic 1980s style. I'm sure they look a lot more advanced now!

Would appreciate at least an option for no specific game title on them, so that they could stand in for anything we require. :)

Would also be very cool to have an array of 1980s-style PC equipment, of the sort which littered David's bedroom in 'Wargames', complete with a blank MS-DOS prompt on screen, so that it could look like the character is about to type in anything we need.

tj_1ca9500b

Here's a few options for you in the meantime, but yeah it'd be cool to have a few arcade machines in Daz/Poser format.

https://free3d.com/3d-models/arcade No login required to download the free stuff.

A couple of them are .obj's, but I'm sure you'd need to do a bit of work to make them nice looking in Daz.

the above site also has a bunch of other stuff that sounds like it might help you get you closer to your goal.

The Coders Haven product here on Daz could provide a good starting point.  Just swap out the LCD Monitors for CRT ones, etc. (perhaps you'll see someithing at the site above).  The wires and assorted stuff on the desk looks like it'd be right at home in the 1980s.  All the wires dropping down to the wall plugs helps sell that this is a home computer area.  With some creative repositioning in an already built room, you can lose the wall that's included with the Hacker's Haven product and align the rest of the props (all at once) to line up with the walls in a corner of a room.  I do have this product, and I did exactly that to squeeze the 'haven' into an attic level room (another product from this site).  I like the product as is though (the setting for my render is current day)

https://www.daz3d.com/coders-haven

But yeah, if some content designer here wants to design an '80's era version of coder's haven, and some vid game machines, that'd be awesome!

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Speaking of "WarGames,"  if you want the IMSAI computer David was using, there is an approximation of it over on PoserDirect called the Retro Super Computer.

http://www.poserdirect.com/free_supercomp.html

edit:  ...except, this one seems closer in style to the Altair 8080 than it is to the IMSAI.  Same era, though, at least.

WendyLuvsCatz

there is an  arcade in Ironman13's Bowling Alley

https://www.daz3d.com/i13-bowling-alley-environment-with-poses

 

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Interestingly, the computer David Lightman was using in "WarGames" wasn't really so much an 80s computer as it was a 70s computer.  Oddly enough, though, they're still making those IMSAI computers today.  http://imsai.net ; Same company, even.  In fact, you can get an IMSAI case reingineared to accept a more modern ATX motherboard, or put in both an ATX mobo AND the old, 70s era S100 bus boards.  There's apparenbtly still a lot of old embedded, industrial equipment that use these systems, and also lots of retro-computerists.  Crazy world we live in.  :D

(I have no connection with that company.  It's just one of those things you come across on the Net and say "Wait... what?!?" :D )

tj_1ca9500b

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

Interestingly, the computer David Lightman was using in "WarGames" wasn't really so much an 80s computer as it was a 70s computer.  Oddly enough, though, they're still making those IMSAI computers today.  http://imsai.net ; Same company, even.  In fact, you can get an IMSAI case reingineared to accept a more modern ATX motherboard, or put in both an ATX mobo AND the old, 70s era S100 bus boards.  There's apparenbtly still a lot of old embedded, industrial equipment that use these systems, and also lots of retro-computerists.  Crazy world we live in.  :D

(I have no connection with that company.  It's just one of those things you come across on the Net and say "Wait... what?!?" :D )

On that note, once upon a time I modified 2 Kaypro II cases to incorporate mid sized AT/ATX motherboards.  Essentially, I reversed the direction of the motherboard so that all of the slots were facing forward, appearing where the CRT monitor used to be.  It was nice having all of my ports facing forward!  I even had a tray to slide an LCD monitor (of sufficient thin-ness) into the case, with the monitor power supply brick positioned inside the case as well.  I swapped out the old Kaypro Keyboard for a new one, squeezing it into the same tray that accomodated the old one.  So essentially, it was still 100% mobile (slide the monitor in, clip on the keyboard to the front, then grab the carrying handle on the back and voila! Portable desktop!

The old 5 1/4' Floppy bays were about perfectly sized for a CD Rom drive, and I  used a 1U server power supply to squeeze power into the case.  Ahhh, the old days!

FirstBastion

There's a few of these on sharecg.  Here's a example by ghastly

http://www.sharecg.com/v/76367/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Ghastlys-Ghastly-Arcade-Machine.

 

Xenomorphine

I can hardly ever get stuff from third party sites to show up in DS and have to rely on the store on this site, but those shown in the bowling alley set look excellent - and are Iray compatible! Thank you!

Yeah, I should have really mentioned seventies or eighties, I suppose. Aesthetically, it was all much of a muchness, back then.

Feeling so nostalgic now...