AutoCAD to Amiga !
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The major reason Draw Plus uses ASCII is because a float using FFP isn't the
same float using 68881 IEEE. You might be interested in the drawing format
dicussion (IFF) in the amiga.dev/iff section of BIX. I've been pusing for
scaled 32 bit ints, but it looks like IEEE's going to win out.
William Volk
Um, no, I wouldn't be interested – I consider participation in/in BIX to be
tantamount to supplying $$$ to terrorists – anti-amiga terrorists, who use
weapons of paper. And if the Std is inefficient, then there will have to be
intermediate files, with stand alone convert programs. I can't hand my
customers multiple-minute load times; it's unacceptable, for many reasons.
Glad to hear the info, tho – any participation _here_ you might make is
certainly welcome; But BIX is anathema, at least to me. –Ben–
Commodore's there, hence I visit it. I much prefer CIS because I can do all
my work offline. With message subjects I can skip over what I need to read.
On BIX you end up wading thru a ton of messages.
The IFF dicussion is on Commodore's support section. By the way, what ever
happened to the vendor support section for CIS and Amiga?
Look in your mail (US Snail type) late next week).
Talk to Steve – He'll tell you al about it, I'm sure. As for CBM being there,
they shouldn't be – BIX/Byte did/does more to harm the Amiga than any other
force outside of IBM's marketing organization; support of BIX is like driving
coffin nails into your machine. You, of course, do as you see fit – but to
me, it's unethical. As far as BIX's message handling capabilities, they're
immaterial – it's like discussing the message handling capabilites of an
Apple/IBM marketing firms BBS – why use it anyway. Developers that use BIX
are paying Byte 10$/hour (or more, I don't know firsthand) to knock the Amiga
monthly. It's far worse than buying that raggy, lying, inaccurate mat of
IBM-boot-licking Apple pulp… they only get 4-5$, once a month, for that
trash… BIX, on the other hand, provides them with much more profit, while
putting forth a completely false image of "fairness". Byte is approximatly
the quality of the National Enquirer, IMHO. And BIX, by association. It's a
matter of ethics. –Ben–
Talk to Commodore …. not to me. I'm there (on BIX) because Commodore's
there … and BIX also provides Aegis with it's own product support section
…. They PAY US to run that section.
Gee Bill, that ought to be an easy win for you. If Lauren would send
me my magic developers stuff, I'd help you try to win that one. Scaled
integers are VERY nice, but very few people understand them.
I'll go with IEEE if that's the decision. BUT I do believe that the scaled
int. approach is superior. Biggest problem with the IFF drawing standard is
dealing with stuff like parametric drawings (the dimensions in Draw Plus are
a small example). There's also some desire to IFF PostScript as a drawing
standard.