#Pixel 3D
19 messages in this thread
Jerry,
I think you're right. But, all is not lost. They did throw in a T-shirt
with the Pixel 3D software. If only they had included a few boxes of
aspirin for the endless hours I'll be spending cleaning up the ragged
logos.
James,
Consider yourself lucky to even get ragged logos. PixelPro crashes most of
the time on my machine. Blows my mind to read the glowing reviews it often
gets.
-Richard
Richard,
My thoughts exactly concerning the glowing reviews PixPro often receives. The
sad fact is that I so seldom see a negative review about _anything_ that I've
just about gotten to the point that I disregard all of them, beyond simple fact
gathering about the specs and such… I guess the writers simply don't want to
jeopardize the 'free software and heavily discounted hardware' arrangement,
huh?
Jerry
Magazines don't usually like to run negative reviews on a product, if the
thing sucked, they just wouldn't review it, or maybe it would go
side-by-side and come out looking short in some checklist.
Arnie,
<< Magazines don't usually like to run negative reviews on a product, if the
thing sucked, they just wouldn't review it, or maybe it would go
side-by-side and come out looking short in some checklist. >>
I have no problem believing that they take that approach. However, if they've
gone to the trouble to have it reviewd by one of their writers, and the writer
concludes in his article that it's bad, they should publish it. This would be
better for their readers, plus would probably inspire the manufacturer to
correct the shortcomings and problems a whole lot quicker…
Jerry
Probably more likely is that the reviewer would tell the editor before he
got too farr into the review, assuming it was that obviously sucky..
In any of the reviews I've written (and I've written quite a few), if the
product didn't make the grade, I reported it and the review was printed as
is. That goes for Amazing Computing and AmigaWorld.
Steve
Jerry,
Mags don't want to rub their advertisers the wrong way. It's a shame Amiga
users can't get better information about products before they buy since it
is getting to be a luxury to actually see anything beforehand. That's one
thing I like about the forums here, enduser reports.
-Richard
Richard,
Agreed. Hanging out and participating on these forums is one way to get
accurate information about the products we're looking at…
Jerry
Richard,
I hope that you have talked to their tech support people about it
crashing. I haven't had any problems with it crashing.
JG
John,
In all fairness, I haven't spoken to Pixel's tech support. I had kind of
written it off. My progressive 040 eats some programs for lunch and this
is one of them. I can get it to work less flakily if I drop down to the
030 and run enforcer. My Progressive accelerator is very intolerant of
programs with enforcer hits and this program is full of them.
-Richard
Richard,
I've also got a Progressive 040 and have used Pixel Pro with no problems
(nor with any other programs I've used). I wonder what's causing it ?
That's very interesting. Which Progressive 040 do you hve?
-Richard
I'm not sure which Progressive 040 I have. It's fairly recent. I bought it
just after the prices dropped.
I think the 040 for the 3000 with page mode ram chip is a little
sensitive. Is this the one you have?
-Richard
No, I've got the 040 for the A2000.
I kind of thought you had a different unit when you said everything worked
fine. Most stuff runs fine, but programs that are full of enforcer hits
usually freeze up the machine. I know they work O.K. on other machines
even with the enforcer hits.
-Richard
If you use Imagine, get the 2.9 upgrade. It supports .PFB PS fonts. They
import with absolutly no jaggies and can be beveled in many ways.
Jim R. Ollick
Using AP from Bergenfield, NJ
James,
You got a t-shirt with Pixel Pro?!?!? No fair. <g>
Jerry