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#3DS/NT: CANCELLED!

    07-Apr-95 08:12:28
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 🙂