Talk:Digitizer System

The Digitizer seen at minute 4:20 in that German documentary is a KD4600 Digitizer manufactured by Graphtec (it looks like this is the name for the tablets, "Digitizer")... i'll leave 2 pictures here for reference... http://www.eurozahler.de/data/bilder/130888/Graphtec_Digitizer_KD4600__130888_0.JPG , http://www.eurozahler.de/data/bilder/130888/Graphtec_Digitizer_KD4600__130888_10.JPG ... --Asagoth (talk) 16:05, 2 January 2018 (CST)

Edit: OK Guys ... i guess i discovered the secret behind the SEGA Digitizer System... AutoCad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD ... here you can see the graphical user interfaces, of revision 12 to revision 2000 of the AutoCad software http://hyperpics.blogs.com/photos/autocad_past_present_and_/r12_interface.html... the Graphtec KD4600 runs all this versions under different operating systems as shown in this table https://web.archive.org/web/20010713081545/http://www.graphteccorp.com/support/software/digitizers.htm ... in this youtube video we can see AutoCad Revision 2.18 running (an older version of the Autocad from around 1986/87) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=070Y8V3Mck4 ... and in the German documentary we can see at minute 4:19 during brief seconds what looks to be AutoCad, running on the computer at right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hoGyKI5J7k&t=260s ... So what do you guys think about that? ... I'm just asking your opinion... --Asagoth (talk) 21:07, 2 January 2018 (CST)

Edit: This a passage from the book "Playing at the Next Level: A History of American Sega Games" by Ken Horowitz of Sega-16 fame, a testimony of Scott L. Statton one of the programmers for the Master System version of Monopoly: "The Sega Graphic Tool, used for drawing game visuals, worked with two monitors. One used a pixel-by-pixel view, an the other presented the image in regular size. The artist had to draw the graphics on the first monitor using a light pen, but the other monitor did not compensate for the propagation delay so images had to be draw a half-inch to the left of were they supposed to appear. Additionaly, most of the code had to be assembled in one massive file because linking it took long (hence the Hard Disk Drive?)".... Digitizer System 1? ... it looks to be ... this and having to hold a pen for long hours and adding to the fact that these type of graphics couldn't be erased partially (in case of an error the graphics had to be erased completely, can you imagine how it might have been, to work under this conditions? This could have led to a shift, concerning the tools used)... You decide ... i'm just trying to unveil this mystery...--Asagoth (talk) 05:11, 3 January 2018 (CST)