#3DS/NT: CANCELLED!
07-Apr-95 08:12:28
Sb: #163155-#3DS/NT: CANCELLED!
Fm: krazy images 72724,3111
To: JEFF ZEHNER 74064,3365
Hey, I thought the message was already scrolled from the forum. Glad you liked
it! <bg>
"PS lets not give anyone, any ideas"
Why? Giving your costumers more options to choose from is not bad for anyone
(except for the developer if they give too many options 🙂 I always have been a
defendant of a multiplatform 3DS and that's why I was the first person in the
forum promoting an NT version of our favorite program. That was back when some
people were saying: "Ah Oh, naaah, I hate this silly windows, NT is MS's toys,
mouses? double-click?" (nobody says that anymore, except the OS/2 fan-atics)
Now people are not limited to buy Wintel, but they eventually will be able to
choose Alphas, PowerPC or whatever. Going a step further and make it available
for another OS if it could result in a benefit is a "logical" step, althought
the NT move has been planned to avoid costly ports.
It is not only that we have two 8100s and a 9400 coming this spring <bg> but I
also believe that if Adesk talks with Apple about a port paid by the last one,
Apple will do it. They need a leading package to jump over their Quickdraw 3D
thing and make it the standard. Of course, current Mac 3D programs are not
going to establish a 3D _industry_ standard, and that's why I think they
[Apple] could do it, eyes closed, check-on-demand <g>. Besides, if 3DS ever
comes to the PowerMac (in any form, including running over NT on a CHRP
PowerMac), they will eat the 3D Mac market alive (which actually, is not as
small as some people seems to think). If Adesk and the Yost Group get out a
PowerMac 3ds, I will be the first to buy one, even if they release a port of
the Release 3, I will get it.
ana /krazy images
ps. Greg [Pyros, who else will understand the following<g>], if you are reading
this, what can I say? From hate to love there is only one step, like people say
in my home country 🙂 (and this are not silly expensice 68xxx Macs, these PPCs
are actually real computers, I tell you 🙂