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Dan, > I was in a campground (in Austria?) when I first heard the Beatles > singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in German. I was sure I was losing > my mind. I know the feeling. When I was there I heard "Die Artze" (I think that's their name)…
Nils, Good luck on your quest. You might want to e-mail Draeden of VLA. He can be reached at draeden@u.washington.edu. Jeff > By the way.. Of cause it's a hidden meaning… I thought it was obvious Of course, it's the good old obvious hidden meaning!!! I knew I was missing…
Nils, > Thank you.. But when will the A-Flag be set? The C, Z and O-Flags are easy > to use, but what is an Auxilary-Carry? Good question. I'm digging deeper, withiout much luck. My guess is that the A-Flag is used internally, possibly to help determine what the carry…
Dan, > I was looking at those for the 386SX I do telcom on. Instead I got an IBM > SLC66 motherboard with a copro and 4 megs of RAM for $400. The copro's not > nearly as fast as my DX2-66, but many ops benchmark faster on the IBM.…
Peter, > I sent a message to the demo team, and I was wondering if you deleted it, I'm not part of THE demo team –after reading messages from so many people asking to join, I decided to form an "unoffical" or "public" demo team. We not REALLY a team…
Fred, > Yep, your Border's sounds just like ours. I guess it must be a chain. And > they don't even rag on you for reading the books there without buying. I guess they are a chain, it's nice to find someone who believes in service. > I'll upload my…
Jim, > A triangle can gain up to 3 edges when it is clipped to the screen. Although > if you are clipping during scan conversion you don't have to worry about it. While I didn't really think about clipping, that is something which affects every shape. Of course, if…
David > Did you ever made an animation for a political ad? No, but maybe I'll morph Helmut Kohl into a pear , or Ross Perot into Dumbo the Flying Elephant.
Nils, I won't pretend to be an Asm guru, but… BTW, my book lists an AF (Auxiliary carry) and a AC (Alignment check enabled) flag. The AF is bit 4, and AC is bit 18 –NOTE: AC is a '486 only flag. The AF is affected by: AAA, AAD*, AAM*,…
#Public Demo Thread
Message #867
Nils, > Why don't you use Modex? Of cause, drawing the pixels is slower, but you can use the multiple bitplane-writes to speed up the Clear-Page-Mechanism up to 4 times. And you can use tripple-buffering (paging) for flicker-free animation. I think it's worth the approach.< I haven't ruled out Mode-X…
Fred, > BORDERS? Where the heck are you? The only Border's Books I know of is in Dallas. < Well, there's one in Mt. Lebanon –just outside of Pittsburgh. Before Barnes and Noble opened it was the only book store that had computer books besides the "How to use ….",…
David, > we have political commercials on TV. < Sorry to hear that. Here the law is that if a station agrees to show one political commercial, they must show all. Furthermore, they all must be charged the same rate (the minimum) regardless of how many are aired. In short,…
Fred > Actually, you only have to project the poly turnpoints on the screen, right? From there on it's just Bresenham lines and fill algorithms, do you agree? < Yes, exactly, I fiqure the extra calcs on a few points (for aspect adjustments) would be quicker than the slower pixel…
Fred, Right now I'm planning to write some 3D polygon stuff, so I'll be working mainly with lines. I was concerned about objects getting squished as they rotated. I think I'll try it in 320×200 first. The aspect ratio is 1.2:1, so I think I'll take the x value, right…
jim Airframe is not compressed, and it is not a data file. Rather, it's an executable the creates each frame from scratch (calculates what is where and draws it to the screen) each time it is run. Now, I don't think that any of us here actually dis-like .FLI/.FLC files…
David, > tja, wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual! 🙂
Fred, I've read you're comments to Nils about vertical lines in mode-X for 3D polygons and was wondering… What would be more advantageous, the square pixels of 320 x 240, or the ease of puting pixels in 320 x 200 (and then adjusting the aspect ratio) ? I've gotten the…
Rob, Well, more or less, after hearing from all of these people asking to join the "official" demo team, I just though that it'd be a waste of their talent for them to be doing nothing. Since there was a general interest to just swap ideas, code, etc. and see…
Fred, Like you, I WILL upload my code "when it's good enough", but say I get a stack overflow error, or my BSP tree isn't efficent, and I need a hand, I would rather post a note to that says: "Help me PLEASE!!" and mail it to the next "volunteer",…
Hi Lily, Well right now, there is NOTHING!!! It just seemed that there were some people interested in coding demos who couldn't get into the "Official" team, so I thought –why put all of this talent to waste. Due to my inherent hardware limitations (a '286/87 12 MHz) don't expect…
Lily, We (who ever we end up being) would make our finished code public, but I would think that partial code would just clutter things up and I wouldn't want people to DL code that doesn't work. It just seemed that there are a lot of us who want to…
#Public Demo Team
Message #294
Fred, > Maybe if there's several people who want to get some demos together, we should > form more than one demo team or sub-teams or whatever. Why not, let's go for it. Just one thing though, I'm stuck with '286 code and Turbo Pascal is my only "real" compiler…
speaking of oxymorons, here's one… >>—Windows Application—
Colin, > One of the problems though, is … the MAC Header on the file. There's a program call UNMAC in the desktop publishing forum that removes MAC headers. There are also programs to uncompress .SIT and .SEA files (MAC-type .ZIP equivalants). BTW, is there a DOS based Quicktime reader/converter??…
Fred, > Why not restart the fires? I love a good flame . Maybe I should rephrase what I said. I don't mind restarting the fires, I just don't want to burn the same fuel. That is, let's continue the debates on OS/GUI/etc. but not repeat old arguments. > Maybe…
#irony of new location
Message #102
It's kinda quiet here since we moved I just thought that after all of the debate comparing Demos to pre-generated .FLIs, .AVIs, etc. that it was kinda ironic that here we are surrounded by them. BTW I'm not trying to restart the fires from that GRAVIS thread (although a little…