This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Jeff, Good luck with the toaster, many use it and love it. The question I might ask is this. How much of the quality of the rendering is the software and how much is the toaster display? I trust that you had a 24 bit board before so that this…
Tony, Address the same send it to Me Mike Halvorson THanx Mike
Jeff, I hope you enjoy the toaster, indeed you have made your choice. Albeit it might have been made in the dark. Software is a tool, you are the ingredient that makes the software valuable not the other way around. For some reason people seem to forget this very important…
It is difficult to stand out in a field of unfullfilled promises. I think people are smarter than you give them credit. People dont just part with the money they earn because they see a pretty picture. We will be posting images that will impress and hopefully will casue people…
Steve, Thanks, Idid not know that. Now I just gotta figure out how to get everyone to buy one of these things. How much is the software drivers to use the CDROM. Mike
Great, glad to hear it, the world turns and it never asks me what I think nor does progress evolve because of what I do or dont know. As for the pics I will upload one this weekend right here. Mike 24 Bit ILBM Pick Name LATTICE
Yep I am aware of that, however the problem is that there are no vendors offering products that people can buy at a resonable price. Or I should say that in my limited scope of the market I have not seen anything that I would consider as low cost as…
Down deep in the skunkworks where no one ever goes, except the programmers and some times me. We are working on just such products that will allow you to have real time input for use in your work. The problem is that we want to make it very inexpensive so…
Tony, I like everyone. You included. Mike
Anthony, I would suggest that Imagine is not hard to use, 2.0 or 3.0 it just takes hard work. There is no such thing as an easy 3D product. I think that the over riding reason for people not to participate is not Imagine it is the work involved and…
Richard, Indeed eaiser, To get a copy of 3.0 for the Amiga Cost $100.00 To go all the way from zero to Imagine 3.0 for the PC is $200.00 This gets you PC Imagine at $500.00 lower than the Retail Price Call the office and place your order toll free…
To Peter, David, Jeff and anyone else that would like to reply. Contests intimate that the work you are doing is going to be JUDGED by someone or some group of people and then are going to be given a rating of some better than others. Worse even yet is…
You spend too much time in the retail store. People in stores sell what they like and what they have. Of course we have missed some sales, however when the user gets home, can he indeed make that picture that he or she saw at the demo. We have never…
#Imagine 3
Message #66411
Tony De' Trace, Actions do speak louder than words, so look for a few pics and maybe even a anim this week. Mike
Thanks, for your help, I am sure that we could as you suggest be served by adopting your process. We have over the years been able to catch most of the Bugs before they reach the user and consumer. If we suffer from some problem it would have to be…
Troy. I think that our testing is less formal that what you use. We have several users who beat the software to death and then we fix it. This process slows down delivery time but it seems to work in gerenal. What I think we need to imporve upon is…
Thanks for all of your suggestions.
Imagine has not been delayed, we just did not get done as soon as we would like to have. I think that it is still best to let you do the talking and we will do the making. THis is your software, show us what you can do. Soon it…
Vernon, Surely you jest, Mike
And everyone who cares. We are in constant testing, no longer do we use the phrase BETA, that is an old phrase that really does not apply that much to what is really going on with our development team. Also there is no way with a program like Imagine that…
Once again you state, IF WE ARE GOING TO RELEASE IT, of course we are. It nice that you like Real 3D we have no plans of copying the product of other companies, We might have something that you will appreciate as much as real 3d. We dont upload much…
I am sorry that you had a bad call, if I could I would take it back. I make no excuses for the lack of help, it was our fault and I accept all of the blame. We like you are only human and from time to time people have…
Joe, You bet, call the office and ask for the FC 24 kit and we will be glad to send it to you Mike
Derek, When I speak or write about Imagine, I do so with out the stress of any particluar platfrom. When develope software with the user in mind, not the computer that they have. We now have two platforms to work with, however to us they seem somewhat the same. With…
The new box is a complete computer. It runs MS DOS and WINDOWS apps, sorry it is not an AMiga but they just arent set up for vendors like Impulse to buy them and then OEM that product. This is not a dead end product, but more on that later.
I see no reason why we would not support the Opal Vision. The programmers are not real fond of the board and from time to time make snyde comments about it. However programmers tend to like what the designed (firecracker 24) and not the competition. I am sure that you…
suggestion
Message #65573
David, This feature is in the new version, it is actually an old function found in SIlver. We call it set zone. Mike
Mike Both versions release on the same day. Mike
Don, What is it that you are looking for from the Customer Service Line, If you have a complaint please let me know, out goal is to be as informative as possible. We pride ourselves in doing a good job for the user. I must admit that some users do…
David, Yelling loudly, It is a complete stand alone work station, it needs no other computer. ZXooooooweee Mike
Jeff. Yes there will be a set zone feature Merge works but not for what you want to use it for. Merge re-orients faces, edges and points so that all the normals are doing the same or right thing. When you have two halves you will have to join them…
David, The distributor will most like not have upgrades, get yours through us direct. Send in 100.00 usd plus 10.oo usd for shipping. This is the fastest and maybe the only way. OK Mike
David, Yes there are plans, too soon to tell you too much but it might be fair to say that we can scream louder, much louder and for much less money. Or maybe that was talk softly and carry a very large CPU,, I dont remember. Mike
Jeff, If you are speaking of the board from US Cybernetics, we are looking at the board, well not actually, we have yet to see the board, but as soon as we do we will let you know what is going to happen, more plans that
David The upgrade things works a bit differently than the way you purchased your 2.0, you must upgrade through Impulse in the US, send $110.00 us and we will ship you the software as soon as we can. Also make sure that you send in your warranty card if you…
Sze C, Neat name,. At this point we Imagine will not do the image back rotoscope we are working on it, the problems comes into bit planes and the like, with the FC 24 I do that all the time because I genlock the amiga over the fc24 Working in…
I look forward to it. Impulse, Inc 8416 Xerxes Ave North Minneapolis, MN 55444 Can't wait Mike
imagine texture maps
Message #65329
Don YEP Mike
#DOS-shell for PC version
Message #65328
The problem is that windows is 16 bit, and Imagnie is 32 bit, windows also runs in DPMI which our DOS handler does not like, SO until windows gets beefier we will not work in that environment. There are a few out there who are rrunning under NT and they…
#imagine texture maps
Message #65327
Peter, Yes 3.0 will ship on October 28th, this version will be for present users and will not have the manual, it seems that we have added too much to expect the manual author to write about things he does not know about. Once the manual is done we will…
Peter, We got your tape today, and have watched it. There is lots of promssing work there. It does seem that the tape was done with, DCTV, which is fine for basic work but at large I hope that you get your hands on some single frame gear and a…
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DOS-shell for PC version
Message #65184
David, Yep we feel the same way, we are at the end of dev, but it does seem worth taking the time to put,. So we are goona do it. Mike
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#imagine texture maps
Message #65183
Don, SURE Mike
David, Yep we will do it Mike
JP If you follow the specs for eps and postscript, that is just what it means Mike
Blag, Gosh do you believe everything you read, we thought of a better way thats all. Mike
Vance, LEAF he is a reeal good frend of Mine , Ya… SHURE and ah you get the statue about 1 foot high and I will digitize it. Mike
Peter, Very well. No real date for delivery but we edge closer each hour that passes Mik
Vance, There will be new objects but I suggest that you buy the CDROM form syndesis, it has bunches of great objects and maps. THere will be alot of new effects as well as tons of new textures, like hamburger and others too numerous to mention mike
Bruce, Call anyone we are all there to help, you are welcome to call me Mike Halvorson, if I am not there I am sure that anyone will help. Mike
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