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#110180-
IPAS Programming Lnguage
Message #110374
Bill, Please contact me concerning your sale of Metaware, and PharLap. Please. Call collect if you prefer, or contact me at any of the following. Steve Stephen D. Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, Fl 813-977-8414 70732,2546 pidgeon@gate.net
Thank you Jonas…. You've heard us, and are looking at the issue. That's all I can ask. Your attention to this, as well as Gus, Christopher, and all is very appreciated. I will await Adesks decision with optimism. Steve Stephen D. Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL 813-977-8414 CIS: 70732,2546 pidgeon@gate.net
Gus, Your input is most valuable. Chris Allis has contacted me about the PR efforts Autodesk is mounting to encourage IPAS development. I'm very encouraged by his comments. I received an interesting but rather cryptic reply from the Watcom forum from Mike Tajmajar of Vibrant, I'd appreciate your comments on…
Jonas, Thank you. I've been talking with Metaware and they have a bundle for $995 which includes Metaware High C/C++ and PharLap SDK. One may request version 3.1 and they will provide the current version and the 3.1 version to the buyer. I continue to attempt to solve the debugging…
Gus, > Please explain. I thought the $1k for Metaware 3.1 and PharLap SDK bundle was going to be the extend of my non re-occurring cost of migration. I don't want to make any more decisions that haven't been properly researched. And thanks for your input. It's greatly appreciated! Stephen…
Gus, Yes, I agree. It appears that those who want debugging have found it easier to spend the money on Metaware, than try to persuade Autodesk/Watcom to collaborate on such an effort. Neither expresses any interest. Now, what do I do with 2 licensed Watcom C/C++ 9.5 compilers? 🙂 Thanks…
Oh. 🙂
Thanx again for your quick response. If possible I would like to leave a message posted to solicate input from others. I would prefer to find IPAS debugging tools for Watcom, before converting to Metaware. The costs of such a migration are significant. I noticed that all the forums became…
Watcom Debugger/IPAS3
Message #109864
I'm requesting information on the use of the Watcom C/C++ 9.5 debugger, Video, in the development of Autodesk 3D Studio IPAS external processes. Jonas informs me that tools need to be developed that generate traps similiar to the ADS debugging tools available for ACAD. Dan at Watcom informs me that…
Jonas, I've spoken with Watcom Technical Support. Dan issued incident #30034 with regards to my inquiry. He states that that previous ADS and ADI debugger tools may have been a collaboration, but are the ultimate repsonsibility of Autodesk. I understand via the grapevine that the majority of IPAS development is…
Yes, Jonas, we have posted on 'go watcom' and internet 'tech@watcom.on.ca' I thank you for your rapid response. I do hope that a watcom IPAS developer will note this posting and reply with some information. Thanks in Advance to any who may have an insight. Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa,…
#Watcom Debug/IPAS3 Dev.
Message #109821
I would like to use the Watcom debugger Video in the development of Autodesk IPAS3 external processes. The Watcom manual discusses use of the debugger with ADS and ADI, but not IPAS development. All suggestions are appreciated, and I thank you in advance. Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL voice:…
#Network Rendering Prob.
Message #96493
Network Rendering worked fine until…. I tried to Network ASAP a new .3DS file. The image rendered by the slave was not the same as the images rendered by the workstation. Both machines are using RDPADI with tmode 11 (512×486). I switched to NULL but the gremlin persists. Then I…
#3DS h/w platforms
Message #37204
I'm now looking for higher performance h/w platforms to run 3D Studio. Currently, I'm using 386/33's on Lantastic network, with 32 MB of RAM. Frequently, I find myself swapping during rendering….not good. To go to a 64MB board I only see EISA boards, and I hesitate going EISA. So, my…
QEMM I do have. But am using 386MAX currently. Will continue to experiment to get rid of the Abnormal Termination message when invoking ANI. Thank you. Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL
#21084-
Diaquest vs. Lantastic
Message #21460
We are running DiaQuest DQ422 and Lantastic AI. We talked with James at DiaQuest Tech Support. The things to watch are: BASEIO for DiaQuest is 2E0 – 2EF worst case 2E2 – 2EF better case (depending on version) DiaQuest uses no IRQ. DiaQuest uses INT 14 Some tips: SONY422 A…
IPAS Language
Message #21459
I'd like to tag a question on this thread about IPAS languages. We are very enthusiastic about Borland C++. The upgrade cards they keep sending us now make reference to protected mode programming, and they are offering something called Phar Lap Lite. Is there any glimmer of hope that someday…
Keith, The Truevision library has a ZIP called TPANIP.ZIP. In it you will find a file called TARGAPLS.DRV. Put this file in your ANI\RESOURCE directory. Voila! .FLCs on the targa! We just started doing this for taping low budget 3DS2 animations in real time. When before you enter ANI select…
#ANI abort incident
Message #21457
I have been having the following incident occur frequently, but not consistently. When I invoke ANI, I get the message: Abnormal Program Termination: Segment not Present CS:EPS 02B3h:00002B44h Once this happens, it continues to happen. If I cold boot it may or may not happen. The same message occurs if…
#Creating Graph Line
Message #20547
We are trying to animate a graph line, actually several graph lines. The difficulty we are having is that the data points continue to creep after the line has passed over them. Specifically, the previous data point (turning point) moves around, until the line reaches the next data point, then…
Thanks to all for your input… This forum is a tremendous asset to those of us supporting and using 3DS in a production environment, while we are still learning all the capabilities of the Autodesk products. Hopefully, as we learn we can contribute to others questions, as well as all…
#Record NTSC of FLI
Message #20448
We would like to record a FLI to NTSC composite in real time. We have the Targa+ 16/32, DiaQuest DQ-422, and Animator Pro. I've been told that there is a way. By creating a FLI in 3DS, importing it to Animator Pro, then doing something with the Targa+. But it…
PhilD, Thank you for your rapid response. Our first choice would be Lantastic for price reasons. I notice that some comments have been made about non-reproducible errors with one user of Lantastic. If we begin with the AE2 and Lantastic, I believe that that ethernet card can also be used…
#3DSR2 and LAN
Message #20369
I would like to use a LAN to move .3DS and .TGA files from the creation station to the rendering station. I'm currently considering Lantastic and Novell. Please advise as to any issues that impact this decision. I assume everyone is now at Siggraph, so I will patiently await your…
Yost Group, OK, will D/L makeifl.exe now. Thank you, Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL
#19638-
Disk to Tape Incident
Message #19696
PhilD, Thanks, for the work around. Sounds better than the work around we utilized. 🙂 Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL
Thank you for your response. I have removed the tablet driver (tablet /1 /c4) and moved to an el cheapo mouse (imouse driver from intracom). I was using a Mouse Systems optical (msmouse driver). Currently the gremlin persists. I cannot return to the original mouse (msmouse optical) since the reason…
#Memory up/Performance dn
Message #18388
The strangest thing! We went from 16 to 32 MB, added a SummaSketch II+ to 3DSR2, and upgraded to a Diamond Stealth vram, then performance went down. Specifically, when the cursor is in the active window of the 3D editor, the x,y update becomes very bogged down, and the cursor…
Steve, We spoke with James at DiaQuest today. He always amazes me with his intuition about sources of problems. He honed right in on our problem. It was capsten lock, he clued us in about the system menu disabling the capsten lock switch on the front panel. Voila! Thanks for…
Execellent information Seth! You advise is greatly appreciated. It also concurs with our findings doing a post mortem on our unacceptable disk to tape transfer. It's those little things you know…. 🙂 Here's what happened, we think. Though we had the front panel switch set for capsten lock 2FD (at…
Thank you, Ken. We tried 2/4 and 4 capstan lock, recommendation was 2/4. Things that we noticed: Sync is different between composite and RGB we had to keep alternating pins 6 & 7 depending which disk to tape method we were trying. Also we wonder how to use a scope…
Ahead 2000 VGA Driver
Message #10695
Need a driver for the Ahead 2000 VGA card. Would like to install for client who would like 256 color, and higher resolution than 200×300. Any/All input appreciated. Thank you. Steve Pidgeon Pulse Productions Tampa, FL
#Targa 16 rendering
Message #9548
Gentlemen! I love your product…and am looking forward to 2.0. Maybe at NCGA? Anyway… We have just installed a Targa 16 on a 486 33 and now render to it. Two questions arise. 1) Can we play an animation on the Targa, if so, how? 2) We will need to…
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