#Commodore
22 messages in this thread
Bill,
It doesn't look good for the Amiga, although, I heard a rumor that
Phillips may be interested in the CD32 and AMIGA hardware. Personally, I may
eventually buy a Macintosh POWER PC. In the meantime, I have gotten more than
enough good fun and learning (as well as some income) from the AMIGA. All
things come to an end.
By the way, a while back someone was trying to put together a consotium
to buy control of commodore. Maybe this would be a good time for them to buy
control of the product line. Its a thought?
Paul
Maybe someone should look at porting the Amiga OS to PowerPC (on Workplace OS).
It could be touted as a production studio OS and allow hooks to NT, AIX and
OS/2 (and whatever else is available on Workplace OS).
Anyhow, I think the PC and MAC people have gotten pretty smart and maybe even
learned from the Amiga operating system. I would be hard pressed to believe
that Commodore could keep selling hardware. I used to love my Amiga system,
but I hated the marketing strategies and I hated the fact that my software kept
becoming incompatible whenever Commodore decided to enhance their OS.
One persons opinion.
Bill Raymond
Intec Controls
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Amiga OS ported to the Power PC. There's
already a 680X0 emulator available for the chip — otherwise they wouldn't be
able to do Mac emulation — so Amiga OS emulation would be largely a copyright,
rather than technical, problem. Wonder who will inherit the Amiga OS copyright
now that Commodore has called it quits?
–Chris
True but you'll need about a 100mhz 604 to pull off all the sub-tasks
handled by the custom chips, in a manner your accustomed to looking at.
(read smooth, flowing graphics).
Matt Straney
in Grand Ledge.
A teacher of mine at college had a chance to try out the Mac Power PC, and
said it wasn't as good as the hype. He's a Mac devotee. He said he may get
one in the future, but after trying it out, he's not in that big of a
hurry.
-= Vance =- Image Master
Flying high on Imagine and Imagemaster R/t!
Mac programs reportedly don't show impressive speed gains on the Power PC, but
that's because 680X0 programs are emulated rather than directly executed by the
CPU. Native applications for the Power PC supposedly run quite a bit faster
than Mac apps. Your teacher probably tried to run Mac apps on his machine; if
he tries some native apps he'll probably be a great deal more impressed.
Personally, I'm waiting to see how well Intel-based apps run on the PPC. <g>
–Chris
Personally, I'm waiting to see *any* apps for PPC. *B^)
Oh, it'll all be sorted out. But my instructor was right. Why be in a
hurry to buy the new hardware, when the software isn't ready yet.
-= Vance =- Image Master
Flying high on Imagine and Imagemaster R/t!
I have the PhotoShop PowerPC plug-in running on my PowerMac 7100, and about 80%
of the program now runs in native-mode. I'd say there is about a 2-4x speed
increase, the more RAM you have, the more noticeable the speed increase.
I've also had a chance to play with a high-end Mac 3D program that is
beta-testing their native PPC version. Huge difference.
Still, some of system 7 is still running in emulation, which will probably be
the case till next fall. Also, there are still some SCSI bugs, the system is
about as stable as my DOS platform…heh.
Andrew.
All new computers start out with bugs to shake out. I remember the A1000
and ADOS 1.1-1.3. Woof! *B^)
What's the name of that high-end Mac 3D renderer that you played with?
-= Vance =- Image Master
Flying high on Imagine and Imagemaster R/t!
My PowerPC bugs are pretty minor, and since the Mac has the only desktop color
management tools, I have to run PhotoShop on some sort of Mac platform.
Can't say which 3D program it is, I'd get someone in trouble.
Andrew.
Andrew, Have you gotten the PPC version of Infini-D yet or tried it? What
did you think of it?
I'm not a big fan of Infini-D, I already have too many options in 3D,
essentially, that's a lateral step for anyone with Imagine.
Thanx for the info Andrew. I just got my 3.0 today. Happy Happy Joy Joy.
Do you still call Trade N Post???? There accumulating a rather LaRGE
amount of 3D models online.
I haven't called Trade N Post in ages, don't even have there number anymore. I
pretty much build everything I need now, hate my stuff to look like anyone
else.
I can't say I really Blame you for not calling TNP anymore, there's ALOt
of Bickering on their between Chris Liendo and the younger users/abusers
He'll state something and then the Peanut Gallery will jump all over him.
Sometimes he is wrong but he takes alot of heat. I hardly model anything
these days. I'm too lazy to create new models if I can find one already
,made to suit my needs. I only resort to modeling when absolutely
neccessary.
Did you get any new models??? *B^P
-= Vance =- Image Master
Flying high on Imagine and Imagemaster R/t!
Did I get any new models??? On the Imagine 3.0 disk you mean? Not really,
there's a Cow model and a Model of a Hand for a Tutorial on Bones.
Oh well, better than nothing. *B^)
I'm getting to be pretty good at modelling now, so it's not as big a
concern anymore.
-= Vance =- Image Master
Flying high on Imagine and Imagemaster R/t!
Congrats on receiving 3.0!
Did you get you newsletter.
Jim R. Ollick
Using AP from Bergenfield, NJ
Newsletter???? What Newsletter? Impulse Newsletter or Apex newsletter?
I got a new APEX newsletter but no newsletter from Impulse.
Thanx I'm enjoying 3.0 immeasureably tho I'm having a bit o trouble with
BONES. The HAND thats already setup is GREAT but when I tried adding Bones
to my GUMBY model I got spome BIZARRE results. I'm going to try again
later today after I fracture the Model ALOT which should help methinks.
Peter,
You got the new Apex newsletter? Steve promised to send me one when I
ordered Forge. I've been using Forge for 3 weeks now and still no
newsletter. :^(
By the way, what would I have to do to get a copy of your Gumby model.
I've been trying to get a real Gumby to trace for building a model, but
they're impossible to find.
I've had an animation floating around the back of my mind for a few
months, but I need a Gumby before I can start rendering.
Jeff H…
I havn't had much time in the last 2 weeks to play with 3.0. I guess that
is good in a way, have been busy with 2D animations.
Both newsletters showed up here. I'm gonna have to order the Apex stuff.
Jim R. Ollick
Using AP from Bergenfield, NJ