#Beta Tester explained
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And then Autodesk's pride comes in…I saw a note here once where someone asked
what it took to become beta tester and someone from the Yost group basically
told them there was no way that would happen. Don't remember why, just
remember the memo.
Well…all that arguing and we almost agree with one another. So what's your
political point of view? (Just joking)
-Brad
I can only handle a limited number of beta testers, and over the last five
years I've cultivated relationships with a small group of very talented folks.
These are the people who've helped make 3DS as robust as it is, and I'm looking
forward to continuing this process with them this autumn as we beat the
beejezuz out of the NT version. Unfortunately, I don't have the bandwidth to
deal with hundreds of beta testers, but dozens is more than enough to ensure
that the program is solid.
– G
G:
I appreciate the quality of Autodesk products; especially 3D Studio (after all,
it makes part of my income possible)…
Hey, I have an original copy of a program called CAD 3D for the old Atari
ST…didn't Tom Hudson write that one? It still had the receipt attached to
it…$49.00 in 1985. I tried to fire it up on my old ST, but the floppy drive
was shot on it (try getting that fixed)…and we all used to rely on floppy
drives…yipes.
Thanks for the info…but if you need beta testing by an international
environmental and civil engineering company, you'll let me know, right?
🙂 Keep the quality coming.
Yup… Tom and I spec'd out CAD-3D in Autumn of '84 and we shipped it in late
'85. That wasn't even his first 3D thing… his _first_ 3D program was called
'Solid States', and it was published as a type-in 6502 assembly language
program in Analog magazine in 1983 (for the Atari 400/800). (Typing in eighteen
gazillion lines of 6502 machine code on a chiclet keyboard must've been sooo
fun for folks… 🙂
From 6502 assembler to C++ in 15 years… Some things change pretty radically
if you just give it enough time.
– G
I still have a fully operational Atari 800 … if you open those old suckers
up, they had a huge parallel bus built into them — but it was inaccessable
(hidden behind an aluminum wall)…probably FCC regs.
You're right, things do change quickly. After all, did you ever think a 9 gig
hard drive would cost $2000.00? I remember paying close to that much for an
80mb drive in 1985 — amazing.
Nostaglia forum? (ha)
-Brad
>> From 6502 assembler to C++ in 15 years… Some things change pretty
>> radically if you just give it enough time.
The changes are very subjective. From a 1MHz 6502 to a 133MHz P6, I would
expect something more than C++. Something more in the lines of thought
replicators… <g>
Gus, you're _my_ thought replicator. <G>
– G