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>> but the s3 928 drivers do not work with this card
DPS/PAR/RazorPro Update
Message #156045
This is only in reference to having two drives present in a master/slave situation. In my PAR manual (Release Version 1.2 Feb. 94) on page 88 it talks about "Using the Micropolis Drives with PAR". On the jumper block labeled J6 jumpers W1 and W2 need to be removed for…
James, I was looking over a printout of your autoexec.bat and noticed that you are loading the pardrv.exe twice. You need to remove the c:\par\pardrv from your autoexec.bat. I did a test (I tried PARDRV.EXE dated 5/17/94 and the new driver) to see if that would cause your problem, but…
James, Here is a basic set of files (config.sys & autoexec.bat) to start with. As I noted I do not know enough about the command switches in QEMM to give advice. But I would start here and see if this works with the PAR. This setup boots me to about…
Richard, I can't help you on this one, I know the jumpers on the Micropolis drives are the opposite of the manufacture's specifications. I would call DPS to get the proper settings unless someone else up here on the forum can help you on this question. Mike Morgan, CAD Forms…
James, If you have considered a editor such as Razor Pro or Premier, I know that Razor Pro has a nice scale feature and it works rendering fields also. Razor Pro will preform this task about as fast as a copy within the PAR software. If you do not want…
Richard, The master/slave drive support is a function of the PAR MCI drivers from DPS. There is a release comming soon which takes care of this problem, its fast and works great. Also there will be a upgrade for Razor Pro comming up in a few weeks which will have…
>>PMJI>> If you check the latest R3 v1.0.5 Vibrant Inline Drivers there is a selection for -S3 928-. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the VideoLogic 928 Movie uses the S3 chipset. If you have not already tried this driver set, I think the S3 928 selection…
Michael, The file was uploaded and it took a day or so to show up on the forum. It is called PAR150.exe and it is in LIB #6, at least last time I looked it was there. I missed the first part of your message on the over heating Micropolis…
James, I am using the latest version of Razor Pro and version 1.5 of the PAR software. The Parinit.exe is dated 8-11-94 and this version has not changed in the last couple versions and you should not have to change anything in your Razor Pro or the PAR directories. The…
>>PMJI Michael, I have encountered major problems formatting the PAR drives and have learned the hard way with the formatting of the second drive/slave. DPS suggested to use the PAR application to format the slave, but this crashed my master drive. I tried to format the slave from the DOS…
No problem, Glad to help. –Mike
>>PMJI Alec, I noticed your comment about the new 1.5 PAR software >>it reverts back to the "targa " mode
Byron, >>I now feel very comfortable that I have invested my money and trusted my business to an honest and capable company.
Jerry, I don't know if you received the complete message, but here is some information that I downloaded from the DPS BBS a few days ago. At this point this is all I have to offer you concerning the MCI drivers. MCI Driver software will be available for the PAR…
Jerry, This is some new features that I downloaded from the DPS BBS a few days ago: MCI Driver software will be available for the PAR card in the second week of February 1995. This feature allows you to interface to all MCI compliant sound cards. Cards that contain true…
Dave, >>How many copies of 3DS do you own? 1, 2, or 3?>By the way, your clock must be off. What gives with this 4:19 AM stuff?
David, My situation is similar to what you are describing so I thought I would throw my 2$$ worth. The network is Lantastic 5.0 used with a dedicated server which has a 486-66, 16 megs and two 1.4 gig SCSI hard drives and there are three workstations attached to it.…
Dennis, I am using my server in the DOS mode only and it has 8 megs of ram. Have you tried to do the copy from the C-Drive of the server yet. I have tried it both ways – to the PAR systems main directory from the servers D-Drive and…
John, Wrong, I met no harm with this statement, I did not know that you were so serious about your own radio station. Actually after our phone call and getting to know you a little bit I thought I could jump in on one of your threads for a little…
Don, There was no way that I could come up with a answer as detailed as yours and its not that I did not believe John, I just saw a opportunity and went for a little humor! As far as the RF noise, there has been many times where I…
PMJI>> Donald, I have found some of the same problems. Here are some of my conclusions with my system, I am using Lantastic 5.0 w/1-486 66mhz as the server 3-P90's as workstations with the PAR on one of them and all are using SCSI interface. I have found that with…
Wow!! I think you have finally set the record straight for the books. At one time or another there has always been that big question– Were all of your nuts and bolts properly tightened. This one puts the icing on the cake. Were you the one that started the rumor…
Jerry, The TBC card from DPS will grab directly to the PAR from there you could export sequential TARGA's or you could get a program called RazorPro form IN:SYNC. RazorPro will read directly from the PAR and convert to a number of different formats including *.AVI's. IN:SYNC also has a…
Hot! PAR
Message #148155
Mauricio, >> Do you know if it is possible to put an independent switch for the drive so it does not receive power when not in use?. I do not always need the PAR drive to be on when working on other things besides making animations.
Jerry, I was the one that gave the RazorPro demo at the December meeting, I think you were at that one also. The program was just off the press and it has come a long way. With a few new features added, a path generator which will give us some…
Mauricio, By some chance did you delete files in a project directory and then the project directory itself. This was a problem with versions of the software earlier than 1.34b. If not then keep an eye on the heat building up on the harddrive. The Micropolis drives are noted for…
PMJI, Mitch I have been working with Jamie for over a month now. Myself and a few others have been fighting the problems you have mentioned and many others. I will say that IN:SYNC has been very responsive on the bugs found in Razor Pro and has fixed many of…
PMJI>>Steve, Do you have Lantastic installed as a network on all these other systems your using to debug this problem. If so, then are you copying 3DS to the other systems through the network to test this problem? If this is the case you are probably moving the problem from…
>>Hope to see ya on the C-serve again.
>>I'm confused as to the "add key" in the Keyframer using the "Key Info" key.
PMJI- I have created a still image of the color bars which I stick in the front of the directory by naming it 1111.stl and it stays at the top of the list just in case of problems like you have described. This little trick has saved my A$$ a…
Greg, It looks like you are working on the same line of projects that I am. Currently I'm modeling golf grips for the company's '95 product line. With this project I was able to do all the modeling within 3DS using the shaper and Lofter' helix path. The IPAS skin…
Hansoo, I have been off the forum a few days. As far as the crash in Razor Pro, I had a few of those also with the first release, In:Sync has fixed all of the bugs I reported immediately. I have been very happy with the tech support from In:Sync.…
#What is iges???
Message #141512
Greg, I have been off the forum a few days and I am just getting around to all my mail. The IGES translator that is built into the AutoCAD program has been around before the days of DXF file format. This DFX file format has now become the standard and…
Hansoo, Glad to help out! As for the 32-bit file access I use SCSI and it is not supported, but if you are using some of the newer drives 10 millisecond access or less you probably won't notice much difference. The 32-bit file access creates a 32-bit cache on your…
Greg, You are in the ASOFT multimedia forum. IGES is a AutoCAD conversion utility it stands for Initial Graphics Exchange Specification. You need to GO ACAD to talk to the AutoCAD people. Mike Morgan, CAD Forms Inc.
Alec, About your freeway map, I used CorelDraw, you could use a paint program also, to create a symmetrical map that resembles about the same length of road that 3DS is using for the faces on the freeway (i.e. the number of dashes or dots per face) then I face…
PMJI, David I think I remember your first message on this problem, correct me if your wrong. You were working in 3DS and you quit the program then reset your system to load your Windows configuration. If this stands correct, you might have shut your system down without giving your…
Mitch, I should of done my research before I uploaded this last message. The major changes happened on VERSION 1.27 and version 1.09 was the last non-beta version before the PHAR LAP and DOS DIRECTORY area changes. Sorry about this mistake. At this point I think you are on your…
The most current version of the PAR is 1.34B. The only visible change from version 1.30B and 1.34B is the scrubb bar has much more control over the playback of your animation. There are two major differences between 1.27 and 1.30B/1.34B. The main difference is the added features in the…
It sounds like the problem you are having is related to the 32 bit file access that Windows for Workgroups supports. You need to turn the 32 bit file access off. This is a problem with the PAR drive and 32 bit access, the PAR drive bypasses the DOS file…
Robert, I had similar problems importing DXF files from Autocad a while back. If scale of the scene gets to large you will get a roundoff error, this will flatten curves or create jaggies as you described. 3D Studio works on a single-precision floating-point and will max out at around…
This is a quote from Jonas a while back, this should answer your question. "R3 had a bug that limited the length of an IFL. R4 has fixed this bug. Your only bet in R3 is to chop it up into 1000 entry IFL's ." It looks like you answered…
Rodger I am using the PAR with Lantastic 5.0 with 3 systems on the NET. One thing you have not mentioned is how you defined the PAR drive in the NET_MGR (under the Shared Resources Management menu). You need to set this option -Disk Drive Type: Other- this will enable…
Lost PAR files #2
Message #135742
Brick, I had a chance to clean up my PAR drive today. So I tried a few tests deleting files and directories. What I discovered might point out some of the problems deleting the PAR's PROJECT directories. >1.While in DOS change to the PAR's drive and then into a PROJECT…
Lost PAR files
Message #135735
Brick, I had a chance to clean up my PAR drive today. So I tried a few tests deleting files and directories. What I discovered might point out some of the problems deleting the PAR's PROJECT directories. >1.While in DOS change to the PAR's drive and then into a PROJECT…
Laurie, Sounds like a bad ram chip! Try using the two 70's only. If this works, then add the two 60's after the 70's and see what you come up with. You don't need to pair the up with the same speed, try to mix the up and you might…
If you are using Autocad, you might try to break up the DXF file by using the entity selection set. I tested this a while back and it was quicker to import multiple smaller DXF's than one large DXF. Probable because of the disk paging going on. There are a…
Steve, I saw this problem when it first came up, but it did not look like the same situation, now I'am sorry I did not bring this up before. Anyway I know how you feel now because it took me a couple weeks to discover my problem with the shakey…
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