CompuServe Thread

I didn't get much time to study the new PAR, but I hear from reliable sources that it is very cool. As for the Flyer external, I assume that's what you meant by 'xbox' because I couldn't think of anything else that meant :-), I think it's an interesting solution. There may be literally dozens of other video-hard-disks out there today, but few if any are portable and controllable from an LCD front panel display monitor. It's much like an appliance that happens to use some well-known and lovable gizmos inside. As for Trinity? I think the real secret to Play Inc. is that they're going to sell gajillions of "Snappy," their $200-ish parallel port video digitizer for the PC, and it's going to dwarf any potential sales from Trinity. And it's also very possible that they'll make more money by spinning off and unbundling the applications for Trinity, than selling the box itself. The paint program is killer. How many paint programs can you think of that have a time-line editor?

Well, at least I'm claiming "first" status. I've been trying to help Allen and Stuart get many plug-in issues resolved, and for a while there, it seemed like I was the only person outside of NewTek who'd actually compiled one. I've adapted the makefiles to be Visual C project files, which makes plug-in development a snap, if you're familiar with Windows C programming. 🙂 No, InterChange for Windows is still in beta testing… but what we've done is adapt the entire InterChange program into a second executable that's actually a LightWave plug-in. The new plug-in actually invokes all the other DLLs (aka, plug-ins) that actually compose ordinary InterChange, so it's a case of plug-ins calling other plug-ins! Didn't I see you for a fraction of a second at NAB?