LW <-> Imagine
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All,
Does anyone know of a shareware/freeware program to convert Lightwave to
Imagine objects?
Thanks,
Tony
Tony,
If you get no replies to your request for shareware/freeware, you might
like to check out the May issue of Amiga Format, which has a review of
Vertex 2, a commercial program which will do what you want.
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Hey Pete,
where can I get an issue of Amiga Format? Is this a Belgian magazine?
Thanks for a reply, Alexander
Alexander,
Amiga Format is a British publication. It is a general purpose Amiga mag.
The same company, Future Publishing, also produces Amiga Shopper, a
"serious mag., i.e. no games, and Amiga Power, games only. As to where you
can buy them, that depends. Where do you live?
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Amiga Format is UK. I picked one up when I was there two weeks ago.
"NTSC-Not Terribly Sophisticated Circuitry"
-Vree in South Carolina
PMJI but I've been buying AF, AUI, AC, CU and AW for several years (lets
say around eight) and AF is the most sold, but the worst quality (h/w,
apps & games reviews)
Lately, British mags have been competing among themselves with the most
valuable commercial s/w to be given away in their coverdisks. (Remember
Imagine last year.) AC was the first mag to use coverdisk as a marketing
strategy. It was filled with a PD selection, somewhat like a top ten
selection of most downloaded files from a bunch of BBS, really nice.
AF and CU started to issue at first one "playable demo" in their
coverdisks and later two. AUI followed the trend set by AC using PD
selections and not commercial apps.The actual situation is that everyone
is racing to offer the most valuable apps in their coverdscs.
AW has never given away a coverdisk. That's the one that has got my
subscription.
Now I quote some paragraphs from the article "A disk too far" from AC
April 94, page 16.
>It is anaccepted fact of life in the Amiga Magazine world these days that
if you don't give the readers some free commercial software, they will buy
the competition more or less no matter what articles, features, and
reviews are to be found in that issue of the magazine.
During the middle of last year, when it became apparent hat the supply of
good CoverDisk software was running low, we were told, informally, that at
least one other major Amiga magazine would become the chance to stop using
commercial software altogether.
However, without the agreement of all the publishers concerned it is
impossible to impose this sort of voluntary moratorium.
From the industry's point of view, such a move is well overdue. For every
coverdisk containing a free graphics package, one potential high street or
mail order is lost, and if the freebie craze continues we can expect to
see the Amiga serious software market strangled much more effectively than
piracy could ever hope to affect games software.
This legal distribution of high quality commercial software for next to
nothing is, of course, a bonanza for the readers, but if it kills the
Amiga's still very healthy productivity market by flooding it with gratis
goodies we, and you, will suffer in the long run.<
See what happens.
Rafa <Motorola Inside>
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