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Brigeboard Dilemma
Message #74118
Marion, speaking of drives, he says sliding into the conversation, I'm still in the process of setting up my 386 bridgeboard and am wondering how to access msdos cartridges on my 40 meg syquest. Any suggestions? The problem is that I currently have the drive daisy-chained off of my quantum…
Luke, The 3000T is the tower configuration, very similar to towers in the DOS world, with an 030 processor and lots of slots. I've heard the toaster should fit fine in the "T", but don't know of anyone with first hand experience of this. Advantages? Hmmm, the major advantage with…
Johnathan, A somewhat belated reply to your message (been off for a while). Thanks for the clarification, I probably misunderstood what information I was given, …too bad, technicaly I'm not sure if it's feasable, but conceptualy (with the price of 486 motherboard's these days) it seemed attractive. Martin's point of…
John, Jonathan sums it up pretty clearly, Journeyman is a spline-based package as compared to polygon based modelers we're more familar with. High end programs that run on Silicon Graphics machines generaly are sline based. The advantage is that objects are built around "control splines" that allow objects to be…
bil, February was about the last newsletter I got, and impulse is (generaly) pretty good about sending them out to registered users, but they're not exactly on a regular schedule with these things, so you'll probably get the next one they send out, whenever that may be. I'm always a…
John, Impulse's newsletter is available on an irregular basis for registered Imagine owners, though if you called they'd probably send you a copy. I don't have their new phone number handy, but they're located in Minneapolis, so getting connected shouldn't be too difficult. As far as I know, Imagine for…
John, Impulse will probably be making some sort of announcement soon, their last newsletter mentioned the PC version and seemed to suggest it was a couple months away from delivery. Versions are supposed to be functionaly identical and priceing is probably about the same as the amiga version, amiga imagine…
Paul, hmmm, not having specs makes things a little more complex. Is the frame advance motorized or spring loaded? The idea of a solinoid doesn't sound too technicaly difficult, a little kludgey maybe, but feasable. If it's a motorized advance it should be possable to trigger it with a signal,…
Paul, Well I'm a little partial to the firecracker myself, it's what I do most of my work on, and since it's RGB you have more latitude with your color range. Resolution-wise I've compared images I've done side by side on the Firecracker and the Toaster, and frankly was pretty…
steve, I think you'll find animbuild in lib 12 of amigaarts, keyword "animbuild", its a collection of four utilities for working with anims. It's a very convienient program to use, more of a "point and click" type of application, makes generating file lists easy. -david
I,ve been running the firecracker board in a 3000 for almost a year now, no problems other than it's a tight squeeze to physicaly fit the board in. -David
Michael, interesting, we have an appendix a-tutorial, an appendix A-FX, but no appendix A -DCTV, confusing no? Other than a few glitches the manual is *very* thorough, at least as far as I've gotten. Have you tried playing with key-framing the camera movements from the stage editor? Almost as easy…
Ben, Let me add a "please" to the idea of extending the offer to imagemaster/fc. I'm ready to spring at the deal in any case, but since I have a firecracker, imagemaster/fc would be more useful to me. By the way, I note from your address you're living near where…
Brad, well, I haven't received my copy yet, and haven't seen any postings for anyone else receiving theirs, so I'm starting to wonder if 2.0 is actualy shipping. Last minute delays are not uncommon, especialy with impulse. Shame really, all this extra time over the holidays and no new toys…
Bob, Glad you got your copy, I've been playing with it over a week now and I continue to be impressed. Easy to work with, flexible, and you can really push it, stretch the tools out. Currently I'm using the airbrush tool, sized small, to do my rough sketching. You…
Light24- available
Message #28421
To all, Of general interest- I called impulse about a week ago and this weekend received the "final" version of light24. One unexpected feature you might be excited about is the ability to import imagine object files directly to light24. The files are rendered directly to the firecracker, you can…
allen, you might try posting this in the impulse forum over in amigavendor, Rick, who chairs (keyboards?manages?) the forum is very knowledgeable on imagine, to say the least (he wrote the manuals). Also the impulse libraries in that forum have a file on texture and brush mapping that should help…
opps, sorry, ran into a little problem with the editor there. -david
Guillermo, actualy, I enjoy reading your messages in spanish so continue in any way you feel comfortable, vale? como te ba? Esta bien, aqui. Espania este verano fues bonita, muy perfecto. hasta luego. -David Guillermo, actually I enjoy reading your messages in spanish, so continue any way you feel comfortable.…
First off, welcome, -you'll be having a lot of fun here. As to conversion- Adpro (Art Department Professional) is an excellent image manipulation package that also supports most file conversions. pcx (for pcpaintbrush) for sure, I expect they have a .pic module also. ImageLink is also an excellent program that…
roger, my experience has been that snap to grid works fine if you specify it before you start laying your points down. After an objects created the only way I've found to make use of it is to drag each point to a grid intersection, where it will "snap" to…