This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Dietmar, "The Adaptec software did not even lowlevel a cartridge. Thus I went for CorelSCSI." Ah! So there you are! 🙂 Your software doesn't like your hardware, and then the thing is unreliable and all the other nice comments you have launch against it. I guess that it is matter…
What's that experience? ana /krazy images
You may also want to find commercial software in a mail order catalog. I remember a few boxes, but not the names, but I am sure that the people at Adobe and DTP forums can give a few hints. ana /krazy images
#Mac 2 IBM N Back
Message #159706
Argh! Sure that this message arrive late. I have spent the whole week in NYC and haven't got my Powerbook there. I have a pile of CIS mail waiting now in the in basket! 🙁 Anyway, yes, there are many ways of getting that TIF file on a Syquest. The…
"I plan to stay away from MAC's, but I'm open to the Alpha machines!" There are many Ways in the Force ana /krazy images
Robert already got the answers. 3DS for NT on Intel platform will be the first to arrive, but obviously, other platforms will arrive on demand. Although 3DS NT doesn't have any schedule yet, Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD will be available first for NT Intel, then NT Alpha. Most probably,…
Yeah, but 3DS runs on DOS. HiRes runs on DOS. TIE Fighter runs on DOS . Only when 3DS gets to NT, then and only then, I will trash DOS. I know it is a silly little tiny OS, but it has work for years and still works for me…
Hey Martin, I didn't know you were putting a system together. Please read my message about the new DEC multiprocessor systems (featuring the same Intel->Alpha path of current single processor XLs). Maybe that will help, ana /krazy images
3DS/DEC/Multiprocessing
Message #157460
This is not a commercial, people! Call it the Recommendation of the Month, from your e-friend Krazy Ana: Sounds like I have something going on with DEC, but I only own one of their systems. The thing is that I am a DEC fan. DEC XLs are incredible boxes for…
"-Paul 'tired of apologizing for living in a DOS world' Lempke" No need to, Paul. I still can see why people try to justify their software. As soon as you are getting cool results and your clients buy the thing for big dollars, why to apologize? 🙂 ana /kraz images
#Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds
Message #157408
Marc, Actually you got my SGI optimization issue in a strange really weird way. I was only establishing a parallelism between how SGI apps are bad and slow enough that they have to depend on superfast processors and arrays to be productive, even if they do wonders in the meantime.…
Ah! So it goes in the other way. Macs can read and work with PC disks, but PCs can't work with HFS volumes, even if the have been written according the ISO9660 and that's why you have to do mixed mode CDs in order to make both platform to read…
Sounds really interesting, Paul. I will have your name in mind if I ever need to publish a CD title (which is not going to be to far in the future 🙂 I am not sure, however, about what you tell me about the Macs. I can get a PC…
Paul, you are right, most modern macs can read PC CD-ROMs. BTW, have you read about the new Nomai MCD? I think that most people looking for external removable storage, except those searching for CD pre-mastering, should take a SERIOUS look to this under-$600 technology. IMHO, this is going to…
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#Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds
Message #157163
"when this wasn't really true was when we had Win30 running on 386s." Are you trying to say that Win 3.0 was so powerful that it needed a powerful processor to make it really shine? Sure, Win 3.0, the most buggiest and worst coded GUI ever, needed bigger machines and…
Ronald won't get confused if you ask him about Caligari. He decided to be an actor after seeing that movie and "Acorazado Potemkim" (don't know how you translated that into english: "Battleship Potemkim" or just "Potemkim" perhaps?). Of course I am kidding, but I am sure he took Dr.Caligari as…
The Playstation sounds and looks great. Did you get any of the Japanese versions there? ana /krazy images
Sorry, I forgot. BTW, I have heard that Nintendo is going to port D'Kong Country to the Alpha and NT? I think that this port will be a good proof about how solid is NT and that it is the right platform for 3DS. I am sure that the critics…
The thing is that we are NOT joking. Are we? 🙂 Interesting stuff about the Playstation. Have you heard about that 3DO card that could be plugged on a PC? Maybe Gus will write an IPAS for that
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#Original NT Message
Message #156513
What???? What are you writing? 3DS is going out for NT!!!??? What are you thinking about, guys!? What a stupid move! NT is a Microsoft product! I can't believe this! This is insane! What is going after this? Are you going to port it to the silly PowerMacs too!? On…
Right on, Jack 🙂 I specially love the makeup. IMHO, they should nominate the makeup team for a post-morten Oscar . ana /krazy images
"The Cask of Calagiri"? Maybe that is an Ed Wood version of "The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari", Sanford, but I have my doubts 🙂 (I think I have saw all the Ed Wood movies in MST3k, but maybe I missed that one )
yeah, but one thing is a lively discussion and the other is just getting into non sense arguments for just the pleasure of it (specially for the pleasure of specific individuals that seem to like watch the place in flames). I like to discuss (in the most classical bizantine sense),…
Caligari. ana /krazy images
To be honest, I don't have any topic interesting enough to talk about right now. I don't feel like public places are the correct ones anymore, either 🙂 Funny thing, how things change in only a couple of years. Maybe we can move to AOL and start all over again…
I don't even know how you can spend your time talking to deaf people. In this case, writing for blind people. In any case, nice to hear the story and nice to know that my premonitions were true from the beginning (I am from Spain, you know, so I am…
Ah… uhm?… oh I see, ET, phone, home… hmmmm… NO! 🙂 Oh, I guess that Jonas forgot to said that you are porting your Amazing Jokes Generator IPAS to NT
Hey Martin, Haven't our loooooong experience in the forum teached us some good lessons about this kind of guerrilla wars that came time to time to Asoft? 🙂 Oh boy, I remember a very very very old discussion with Paul about the excellences of Warner Bros. cartoons. That wasn't guerrilla…
"Anna, you never had any doubts, did ya?" You bet 🙂 ah! This just have came in the probervial last minute. ana /ki
It really amazes me that you have to hide your addiction to the 3D leading software in the animation industry. Is this some childhood problems you got there (maybe you didn't want to tell your friends that your parents have a Volkswagen instead of a Ferrari? ) Seriously James, I…
Glad to count you in the "Whatever you say, Frank" club. This platform wars are nonsense. I think everything can be reduced to a problem of lack of self-confidence: Most of the people who say this kind of things have not confidence in their own beliefs and/or purchases. You can…
Burning down the house!
Message #151399
Hello people! At last, I sold my DEC XL with all the accessories ($3,500, not bad! :-). I thought I sold the whole house on that one but amazingly enough, there are still a few things remaining here (yesssss, heeere we go again) Let's burn the house on this one.…
Dear Gary, Having a couple of PowerMacs and 3DS in a DEC XL machine, I can tell you that the headache that having to read all the mail those silly mac fans generate going against the PC on the MAUG forums, is only comparable in intensity to what those silly…
And here is my vote: to Autodesk — please release 3DS v.5 on Powermacintosh; hey! this is a democracy, right? But anyway, if the thing is going NT, I will be able to run in my next PowerMac in any case. Ah, the Alpha will be nice too. After all,…
yes! I thought that it was an errata, althought they don't have too many in that… newspaper? 🙂 ana /krazy images
yeah, ":-)"! But _YOU_ also know that Ms.Carol Bartz is one of the editors of the Examiner, under a false name, don't you? Amazingly enough, she uses a Macintosh. ana /krazy images
Hello Gary, Warp has been out for Intel for some months now. Other story is the PPC version. As you probably know, this one is based on the mach kernel from Carnegie bla,bla,bla… It was demonstrated at Comdex and all that stuff, but they were pretty fragil demos (don't touch!)…
Brian, Will Animator control devices like the Targa 2000 and PAR? What about Quicktime and Quicktime VR? ana /krazy images
Polka? mmmh, too rude for me Let's say anything but a waltz =) ana /krazy images
Did you say Tango? ana /krazy images
Hello John, JPEG files from 3DS can be readed from any Macintosh program I have, including Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator. Don't know about the Media suite, though. ana /krazy images
Gary, I don't think you can call Quicktime 2.0 an application. Quicktime is a computer video standard proposed by Apple that uses a group of codecs and can adapt the quality of the playback in order to mantain the speed. It is moreless like Video for Windows, except that Video…
At the risk of falling again in the classic debate, I think that Adesk could announce whatever they want and then trash it if they think they should send it to hell. I won't be tired of saying that this is a free market and if people are not happy…
What we are doing is getting 32bit TGA files to our PowerMac and getting all the files together with Painter 3.0 to make Quicktime movies. Not sure if that will work for you, but the Alpha channel is there. ana /krazy images
"Certainly there's lots of resentment against both companies, as well as people who think they're great." And certainly, I can't think of any good reason about how anybody could react so strongly to companies in both ways. Well, at least you think about the most basic instincts in consumer behavious,…
Dear Paul, Yes, I have started a new thread. You know, this is like dadaism. They argued with their work the innability of the human being to communicate but in the process they used language, the same language they wanted to destroy. If you have read Ionesco or see any…
John, Why are you asking that if you already know the answer? =) ana /krazy images
"Cyrix Corp," Right on, Rachel. This is, and not the PowerPC, the reason for the PR war (IMHO and in OHOs -other humble opinions =) You only have to check out the internal wars between the IBM PC division and the PPersonal systems, to see that there is little connection…
Enough SPLINES!!!
Message #142926
Gosh, I am so sick about this spline thing that I am about calling the forum police. OK, so you have been complaining, discussing, shouthing and asking Jonas for email since the release of R4 but– well, I don't want to sound insolent at all but I am pretty tired…
Thanks Greg. Indeed most of this have been done in my spare time ana /krazy images
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