Alton Towers Rita Ride

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 08:21:22 AM

Hmmm the Rita ride @ alton towers is controlled by a ..........wait for it..........WINDOWS PC................arghhhhh suddenly it ffeels so unsafe lol

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Fieldy · October 30, 2007, 08:23:30 AM

'Crash....'

Titsy · October 30, 2007, 08:31:11 AM

only a toop speed of 60mph, but a peak acceleration of 3G...

55starchief · October 30, 2007, 09:20:19 AM

Im guessing that the system only controls the launch so a BSD wouldnt matter after the launch.

Would have thought it would have been an embedded aplication myself rather than relying on 3rd party software or at minimum a unix based OS

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 09:24:01 AM

Quoting: Titsy

toop speed of 60mph, but a peak acceleration of 3G...

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 09:24:12 AM

Quoting: 55starchief

Im guessing that the system only controls the launch so a BSD wouldnt matter after the launch.

correct

Roadkill · October 30, 2007, 10:03:13 AM

Good ride t'is Rita. Ooo-er.

Oblivion is still the only one which always makes me a little apprehensive, though.

Cunning Plan · October 30, 2007, 10:09:58 AM

Quoting: Roadkill

Oblivion

We went there for the last year at uni, Oblivion is a goooood ride, theres a take away pizza opposite where we filled up on pizza then had a few goes on Oblivion as there was no que...