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3D Job opening…
Message #75971
To all: NY-based Educational Publishing company, currently developing curricular material for schools, is looking for 3D modelers/modeling group. I'm the Director of Technology and need good 3D'ers. This is a two tier offer. 1) Current needs are for good modelers that can match the style of 3D we're looking for…
#3D Job Opening…
Message #39359
To all: NY-based Educational Publishing company, currently developing curricular material for schools, is looking for 3D modelers/modeling group. I'm the Director of Technology and need good 3D'ers. This is a two tier offer. 1) Current needs are for good modelers that can match the style of 3D we're looking for…
#IFF Description? Where?
Message #38236
Can somebody help me out? Where can I find a nice, definitive description/explanation/samples of the currently popular/accepted IFF graphic formats? I know the RKM manuals are probably the first place people would tell me to go, but I also hear that they are known for their typos and general errors.…
I had the same problem LONG time ago. I talked to the creator and he told me there was a slight difference in the joystick ports between the 1000 and the (back then) newer Amigas. He said I needed to solder some resistors somewhere. Never got around to doing it.…
I've been kinda off the Amiga forums lately… If you have mentioned this already, excuse my request for old news: What is VistaWarp and GeoForge? I'm very curious 'cause they sound neat and your stuff has always been exceptional.
I have a Mass Microsystems 128MB MO drive, with a Sony Mechanism as well, and no complaints here. It's speed is somewhere between a CD-ROM and Syquest, leaning more towards the syquest. It is slower writing than reading, since writing takes 3 passes, I believe. I've never had a problem…
Could somebody expand on this Chunky Mode? (Dale?) I remember when the AGA chipset was first announced that there was a mode that alot of people were hoping the Amiga would implement to make it easier to port over IBM gfx applications, or something to that effect. Is this Chunky…
Unfortunately not, those machines, specifically the SE and classic weren't 32 bit capable, hence no 32-bit QD no matter what. Other machines, like the II, IIx, SE/30, etc., didn't have 32-bit quickdraw burned into their ROM but since they were 32-bit wide, the INIT worked for them. Apple was trying…
Ah, the SE/30 was one of the early Macs that actually had 32-bit quickdraw. Apple removed it from some of the later compact macs and, realizing their error, have now made it a standard on all new macs. Another clarification… Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
I wonder when we'll start seeing all the X-rated CD interactive stuff that the IBM/Mac world already has. Never mind that, howzabout the Nazi stuff that once reared its ugly head a few years back in the Amiga/Atari/C64 world? Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
PMFJI, but a Classic can't do Quicktime yet. QT only real stipulation is 32 bit Color QuickDraw. A Classic can't do it. Color Classic and above can do it. Just a clarification… Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Your suspicion is correct: All the new macs have 32 bit bus except for the Classic line and the IIvx. The Centris 610 & 650 are both 32 bit. (BTW, A centris 610 with 8MB RAM, 80MB HD, Built-in Ethernet, 25mhz '040, and HD Drive goes for about $1500 now!)…
PMFJI, but I second your opinion. I might have mentioned this before when asked about 128MO drives, but I'm Tech Manager of a DTP outfit where we had about 30 Syquest drives and around 400 syquest cartridges. Their failure rate is about 1:10. Considering the important data that we rely…
Glad I could be of help! The NewTek sales guy seemed to have a piece of cow dung stuck in his throat every time he mentioned CBM. If we're to go by appearances, NewTek doesn't want anything to do with CBM except as their supplier of Toaster-cases. Miguel ——– AP,…
(Just got back from a week long business trip in sunny Orlando, FL) Yeah, 1/4 screen QT is something that could only have helped Amigadom gain more acceptance in the market. My feeling, tho, is that IF a QT-clone ever sees the light of day, it will be tons better…
No, you can't order the CD-ROM version yet… they said it's in the works for the future. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
#NewTek talks in NYC
Message #32260
Hello folks… I've just returned from a Toaster Expo. (Jeez, I hope I'm the first to post this!) What Toaster Expo is that, you ask? Audio Techniques here in Manhattan held a little open house/seminar for the T4000 and Newtek's own Kiki Stockhammer showed up (as well as two other…
re: Setpatch 37.38's creation. According to version, it was compiled 11/25/92. If we're to believe it, it's kinda old. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
PMFJI, but jump over to the COMICS forum and check out the Japanese Animation section. Plenty of info there! Good luck! Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Well, I can tell you that since Quicktime is frame-size relative, the smaller your quicktime frame size, the easier to capture 30-FPS. At it's smallest size, (about the size of a postage stamp) I could swear I got about 30 fps, no problem. This was also at 8 bit. When…
PMFJI, a Centris 650 8/230 with an internal CD-ROM (Apple's 300i which is Photo-CD capable, I presume?), Video Spigot/Adobe Premiere can be had around here for about… $3500. Yeah, you got a great deal! The spigot is merely a quicktime video capture board. You plug in your NTSC source into…
Ahh! Laptop boy! Well, I'm sure my point about a Full install as compared to a Lite install holds true. I hope you're having fun with that puppy! Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
I'm VERY interested in purchasing such a monster tape. I have nothing to contribute except kudos on what will be, I'm sure, fantastic stuff! Count me in as an interested non-contributor. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Photoshop 2.5 is by Adobe. There is both a Mac and IBM version. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Well, of course I'm not suggesting you amputate! Simply remove the board and see if your problems clear up. If they do, then you have the culprit in your hands. P.S. I overheard at Digital Dimensions that Amuse now meets at NYU the first Tuesday of every month. Did you…
Works' word processor module is not quite as complex as Word's or else there'd be no point in selling Word. Works' wp is very good, though, and on top of that, it's integrated with a spreadsheet and database. Mail merges are a breeze. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Microsoft Word needs about 15 MB when FULLY installed (All the import modules and everything!). Barebones (the program only) it's about 1.3MB. Now if only the Mac had a blitter… isn't the text scrawl absolutely horrendous??? 🙂 Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Joe, Why don't you try removing the GVP card and see if everything clears up. I don't know, but from everything I hear, GVP cards seem to be common culprits. I also know that on my Macs at work, in some cases, '030's that have their burst and cache modes…
He has to backup his hard drive and reformat it with the latest HDToolbox. This will update him to the FFS that 2.0+ Amigas require. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Yikes! Do I feel stupid! Of course… I guess you could substitute Leisure Suit Larry or Kings Quest… (trying to save face!) Ah, at least the gist of the question has been answered! (Sheesh, was that dumb dumb dumb!) Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
Hey, I'm glad I could be of help. It was also nice to see this section get some activity! What that teacher really needs is a good door to her classroom… I just found out she's had alot of equipment stolen over the years! For shame. Don't forget, wherever you…
A Quadra 700 is what? An 040 running at 25 Mhz? The 4000 is what speed 040 again? I forget these little things! 8) Actually, can you, in some way, measure the screen redraw? That is what I fear will suffer the most, since the Mac has never had a…
Well, if I could ask another question: is it possible for an outside developer to "license" one of your game engines (I'm thinking of EOB) and use it to create a game for a platform you are not working on? For instance, let's say I have a great game idea…
Yes, the people I hire are to be specialists in their field… If there is some overlap, that's fine, but it's not something I specifically look for. Your dilemma is similar to mine, except I look at it this way: since I'm a jack-of-all-trades, I can effectively guide the specialists…
Over the last few months I would every now and then pipe up and tell people about the wonders of the Magneto Optical 128 MB disk drive, but alas, it tends to fall on deaf ears. You would think I was an Amigazoid surrounded by PC users! 8) Miguel ——–…
You guys should also try Laser Craze, in Boston. I've had good dealings with them for the last 2 years or so. Really good prices. Their regular number is 617-267-3311. I think they have a toll free # but I don't see it at the moment. Give'm a call and…
Well, I now a bit of C, but not enough to take something from point A to point B, if you know what I mean. I usually pick 1 of each… Art, Coding, Editor, etc. If the project is really big, I'll get more, but I like to give a…
If I may be allowed, it's nice to see your presence here as well, but one things is gnawing at my little head… this announcement of dropped Amiga development, is that as of NOW, I mean, is there anything that's just finishing up that will offered to us RSN? Did…
PMFJI, but re: dead syquest disks, this exactly why I moved to Optical drives: Syquests are great at dying. As Tech Manager at a DTP group, I've gone through maybe 500 syquests in about 2 years. I've had maybe 100 go bad. Opticals don't have that problem. Ever since we…
I wonder if there are any Mac PD utilities that can do a benchmark on speed. I'd be real curious as to what your '040 powered Amiga is comparable to in Mac mode. On my Mac I have EKG, but it's commercial. Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
PMFJI, but I have it on good authority that Apple is about to introduce a speech manager in their next system upgrade. I've seen it run and it's damn good. Of course, it occupies about 2 MB of HD space, but hey, it's Apple, right? 8) Couple the above with…
Ya know, it's funny. I was just talking to someone in our video group and she honestly confessed to me that our old "Struggles" project is about as advanced as we're going to get, as a company, for the next few years! I couldn't believe it! Can we say: "Stagnation"…
Those folks at that conference are right… there is no money in educational software UNLESS you hook up with a successful publisher. Ala Scholastic, Warner, Broderbund, etc…. I wouldn't try anything small-company-wise in education. It's doomed to fail… the educational market is no-money because, in case you haven't noticed, schools…
I'm pretty sure there are now libraries out there (CanDo?), both commercial and PD/Shareware, that can let you incorporate MODS into your scripts. Director is good, but AV is the best for straight ahead flow-chart scripting. Struggles, my project, was done completely in AV except for 6 modules that were…
Well, in regards to file conversion, like you said, PCX/IFF and 8SVX/?? files shouldn't present too much of a problem. MODS… I thought these can now be played on both IBM/Amigas? Maybe I'm mistaken. The trick is to find a killer multimedia tool (CanDo, AV, Scala, Director, etc.) on both…
Andrew, I've always felt that such arguments (CD-ROM on the Amiga being a waste of time vs IBM CD-ROM) are moot in certain situations. If your project is heavy on Graphics and Music, etc., you're obviously going to want to use your Amiga as the development machine. Porting over to…
I'm not sure why you're telling me this? Maybe you meant this message for the Soft-Logik folks? Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!
PMFJI, In regards to Apple graphic/sync modes: I think you're talking about how a Macintosh 3rd party video card will sync itself up to a monitor… It'll automatically cycle through all the modes it knows until you tell it to stop. On those rare occasions, there's a very convoluted key…
I guess by regular serial cable I mean a regular pioneer cable that they sell for connection to PC with XT style serial port… meaning 25 pin. Last time I looked (many a year ago!) they were about $9. The only place I know that has reliable techs and give…
Of course the Quark loader thing was said tongue-in-cheek! Besides, from everything I've seen in Quark up to 3.11, their file format is not too efficient/organized, IMHO. Hey, anything I can do to make sure one camp is fully aware of what the other camp is up to. There's nothing…
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