This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ouch. Have you tried opening it up and making sure everything is seated firmly? (Chips, boards, etc) and that all the connectors are tight? :)—Holly–
I like UUxT better myself for en/decoding files. Hope it helps! :)—Holly–
just did. pour.tif, should be merged in a few hours.
sure, you can all see…. don't expect *too* much; what impressed me may not impress you. I'll upload it soon as I can.
Not me, Betty, ma'am 🙂 I always spell "color" and "humor" as "colour" and "humour"… almost always.. I learned it from some point in my early programming days, when I (or my program, I forget which) confused "color" as "col or", and later "humor" as "hum or" (back then, I…
If I can get good results from it, anybody can 🙂 good luck. PS… btw, I think I figured out the custom gadget button things like you had in WinImages. 🙂
Joy… okay, I'll try out the ones I got, and if they're tileable, I'll post a message with their names.
Cool! How's the Imagine-ing coming, Bem? 🙂
Dear Mr. GreG, (sorry, in a silly mood, ST:Voyager does that to me) Somebody uploaded 28 jpg images to the DTVForum that they thought would be appropriate for tile images in 3d modellers. They're PD, and I even grabbed a few. The looks vary from sandstone, to granite to terrazo…
Your fingers are still acting up 🙂
Dear Joe, take a look a the chrome gears I uploaded a few days ago. What I did to achieve that effect (in 2.0) was simply use the clouds.tif image as a global reflection map. I also had the ambient lighting up around 90 or something like that (it seemed…
It does. My brain was in park. Thanks for refreshing it.
What's Twin Express?
#A3000 video/mem problems
Message #189767
Dear Everybody, I apologise in advance if this message is ill-formatted and/or difficult to follow… I'm having to type it into winCIM (bleah)… why, you immediately ask? Good question, I'll tell you. Because my A3000 won't. I was noticing some short horizontal lines appearing on a piece of software a…
Congrats, John, on the bambino! Which issue is your article supposed to be in so I know to go to SoftItch and mug the clerk for it?
>>Easier to write? Yeah, sometimes, perhaps even most of the time once you wrap your head around it.
I didn't say it was being done, I said it *could* be done 🙂
>>Folks trying to change lead into gold don't have much hope of success.
Sean… WHERE do you find them?
#Amazed
Message #187198
Hi Don! I just wanted to say I was glad that Amazing's still around, even tho I like calling it "Amazed". I thought it'd gone under long ago. Is A/C and AC/Tech still two separate magazines, and both still going?
Whattaya doin' LISTENING?? Ya should be READING!!
>> O.J. Simpson and the Royal Family.
Actually, I haven't read Decline and Fall, it's on my list, but I'm way behind on getting my historical literature read. When you say you put "love", "self sacrifice" and "fear" well before greed, in what terms do you mean? Desirable emotions? Respectible emotions? All I said was that greed…
Surprise surprise… I happened to catch a scene with that while I was rewinding the vcr.. then they cut to a shot of the Seaquest, and I shuddered and flipped channels. Btw, I got the demo and ran it briefly. Impressive GUI.
hear hear.
Nice paraphrase of Santayana. However, the Roman Republic (which is what it was before the decline and fall), was a rather nice place to live, for Romans. It wasn't greed that ruined Rome, but license. I've found it fascinating how the US has followed in Rome's path (not surprising, as…
Since when are colleges and universities responsible for teaching "to write and secondly how to write terse and concise English"? I had thought this to be the responsibility of grammar schools.
Will Rogers
Message #186782
>> I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers
John, can we maybe sometime have a 3D modelling Topic of the Week? This wouldn't have anything to do with my recent resurgence of interest in 3d modellers (oh, no… 😉
>>first to write and secondly how to write terse and concise English.
Yer welcome. Glad I could help.
I hope you'll hang out in DTV forum, at least somewhat. (otherwise, yeah, I'll pester you via email. 🙂 I can't believe the bee was as easy as you say. Actually, come to think of it, I can… I just finished an image in Imagine (my first in around 5…
>>most of the readership isn't apt to be designing multimedia presentations on their laptops (or anywhere, probably!)…
Waitaminit… you're *the* Alan Henry? The one who did the Bee Object described in "3D Modelling Lab"? Excellent work! The bad news is, now I'll probably be pestering you for advice…
Mike, thanks… I tried scaling everything down to 10 percent, and it didn't help. So I deleted everything, started from scratch, and now have a nice ray trace at 320 X 200 X 24. I dunno what I did right, but this time everything was much smaller. It didn't turn…
Closest I can think of is the DrawImage() call I mentioned. Other than that, I can't think of anything nearly as convenient.
8P~~~~ g'ahead, be insulting… at least I gave him example code on how to do it, once I understood his question. I used ClipBlit() in my example, cause he specified a window, and I figured he wanted it Intuition friendly, like. (grumbling… you just wait… I'll show you… )
Bzzzt.. right answer, wrong question, VSpriteR.. I knew it only worked with 8 X 8s.. I completely misread steve's message. I thought he wanted to do a patterned background fill like you can do from Prefs, only I thought he wanted to do it in Windows. The Prefs patterns are…
I'm positioned around 0,0, but everything is huge (the plane is something like 1500 units across, as I recall). I'll check into that. Thanks!! Could I scale everything down all at once?
Thanks, Bem.. this was what I was thinking, so I'm relieved to hear that I made the right decision (well, if not the right decision, at least the decision I thought I was making )
Sorry, I must have misread your original message… I'm assuming you can get the IFF into memory, and have established a bitmap structure for it… if you need help with that, say so and I'll go into that (usually I just use Jim Kent's Jiff.c to load IFFs for me,…
You mean in your program code, or in Windows? To my knowledge, you can't in Windows; you can only have a bitmap for the desktop background. In your own program you do something like: char szAppName[] = "MyWindow"; (this is in WinMain) HBITMAP hBitmap; HBRUSH hBrush; WNDCLASS wndclass; hBitmap =…
Thanks, Mike, I will. I'm sure it's something dumb I'm overlooking (or doing), but it has me stumped.
#Black Trace
Message #102352
Okay, I give up. I don't like asking for advice, but I can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I've got the 2.0 version of Imagine that comes with 3d Modelling Lab. I finally got some time to work with it (not exactly true; I *made* the time), and have…
>> Remember that it has to assume it's going to install Win32s as well…
20 Megs? I didn't even know it was *that* big . Hey, my harddrive ain't weenie.. it's just real real full. Now, if WinImages is so cool, I can dump some of the other software I've been piecemealing with. And, yeah, I know WinImages is one heckuva piece of software……
There's a WinImages Demo over in DTV forum you might want to try. I haven't had time to go get it yet, myself (besides, I have Imagemaster, which does watercolor effects 🙂
Ben, the WinImages Demo is *big*. I thought you should know that, Ben.
>> Nah, the "I LOVE ME" pattern already adorns Newt's walls at the senate office building. It must have hurt terribly to have him confiscate it from your office… btw, would his office be at the Senate office building, considering he's the Speaker of the House? >> I often wonder…
>> Next thing you know he's going to want to pawn off Yellowstone, sell the Smithsonian to Disney, and increase his staff by 50%. Gee, that'd be great. Then maybe we wouldn't have diseased bison wandering onto ranchlands, and the Smithsonian might have more accurate exhibits.
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