#OS/2 for 3DS
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Is there anyone out there using 3DS running under OS/2? How is it?
Any problems? Any Beta sites for the new releases? Anybody
multitasking? Anybody have any advanced info on OS/2 support for
Intel's multiprocessor spec(Ialways forget the acronym) . I'm just
curious and it's a quiet sunday morning in front of the tube.
Regards, Steve
Hi Steve,
<< Is there anyone out there using 3DS running under OS/2? How is it? >>
There have been many running OS/2 since R3 was introduced. Download the
following file..
File Info for OS2TXT.ZIP
Section: Index and Info Contributor: 71722,170 Size: 55565
Submitted: 12/14/93 Type: Binary Accesses: 115
Title: OS/2 forum messages 11/1/93-12/6/93
Keys: OS 2 3DS 3D STUDIO MESSAGES THREAD
All messages dealing with OS/2 and 3D Studio posted between 11/1/93 and
12/6/93. Gathered from daily downloads and arranged roughly in chronological
order. A lot of data to weed through, but tons of useful information.
(Approximate download time at 2400 bps using CIS B: 3:00)
I'm using OS2/WIN with 3DS and now that they workd out the bugs (for
the most part) I can highly recommend it. I havn't had much success
rendering while I'm in Photoshop for instance but at least I don't
have to hassle with Phar- Lap limitations (no paging, none!). It's
very convenient to jump to any program, windows or dos without
closing the one your in first, and I guess that's good enough reasons
until they come up with something better. -=Mike=-
Mike,
Thanks for the response. I'm just tired of jumping from Windows to DOS all the
time and rebooting the machine to change environments. Are you able to model
and render at the same time (2 copies of 3ds?) How much memory do you have?
Regards,
Steve
I have 20 megs and I have run two sessions of 3d-studio but I found i was more
of a waste time than it was worth. I've sort of settled with being happy that I
can jump out of 3d-studio – do some material editing in photoshop and jump back
into 3d-studio to checkout what the material looks like on the object. As far
as rendering in the background goes I've only had marginal success at best, but
at least it doesn't page!! It's better to except the limitations rather than
beat your head against a wall trying to make it do what it claims it can. I
hope we can get some other os2 people out of the closet and share some info.
That would be great! -=Mike=-
Mike,
I downloaded an old thread #55565, filename os2txt.zip that was very useful.
it seems to be from about the time the os/2 2.1 was released and there was a
lot of traffic on getting it up and running. It seems that most people were
successful in getting it to run multiple sessions of 3ds. You might find it
helpful to go back and read that stuff. It was in the november '93 time frame.
It was encouraging enough to me that I think I'm gonna try to get it up and
running as soon as I have the time. Soooo after I finish my current project
(about 2 weeks) I'm gonna give it a shot, but first I'm gonna back up the world
to tape.
Steve
I just bought a tape back-up and I had to buy Backmaster software to back up
os2 ($100). I read that same thread which is why I went for it. But let me tell
ya, it's hard to find any of those people when you need to figure out how to do
it. I spent to much time trying to tweat it out and did get it to work, but to
me it's not worth it. Maybe if you have multi-processors which is still new
tech. Anyway just a word of warning don't expect to find alot of os2 3d-studio
help it's very frustrating to get these guys to share info, and don't start
thinking about tweaking it before you get it all working correctly. I wasted
alot of time. If you need any help let me know and I'll help when I can. It
would be great to get a os2 thread goning again.
-=Mike=-
I just got a Sony DAT drive and it came with Novaback software that claims to
run under DOS and OS/2. it works fine with my tape under DOS we'll see about
OS/2.
Steve
Over this last week I,ve installed a Multi Pro video output, a colorado 250 mg
tape backup drive, a sony cd, a sound blaster 16 cd, and everythings working in
dos or os2 and hooked up to vhs. So I'm having some fun tonight outputting my
animation to VHS with sound. Oh YEAH, and I got a wacom tablet with pressure
pen and puck. Everythings coming togeather real nice. -=Mike=-
WOW,
I hope I have that kind of p-o-s-i-t-i-v-e experience when I try OS/2. You're
convincing me that it won't be that bad. Can hardly wait.
Steve
I've only been using a puter for a year and it's been a steep learning curve
and os2 did'nt help that at all. But, sence they have worked out the bugs I
like it alot. When they sent me the service pack (patched up their previous
screw ups) and it was twenty disks … , that's alot of screw ups! But since
then it's been cool and I can recommend it, in fact I can't work without it,
but their's alot of room for improvement in all the the platforms. I personally
would love to get onto a SGI platform.
-=Mike=-
Mike,
What rev of OS/2 are you using? 2.1? and do you run windows with it?
steve
>> I hope we can get some other os2 people out of the closet and share some
info. <<
I have been using 3DS under OS/2 — WITH a PAR!! I frequently render in the
background. I load up the network queue, run 3DS in slave mode, switch to the
Desktop and go about my other work. Meanwhile, the frames of my animation
pop-up one at a time on my video monitor as they are sent to the PAR. I LOVE
IT!!
It's nice to see others catching the wave!
— James — MAP —
Man that sounds great!! I just bought a Micro Pro CTV ( poor man's PAR) but
it's pretty good, I was surprized. I remember getting a slave session going
along while back but I didn't feel it was working quite right and ended up
shining it on. I'm going to get back into it right away. Thanks for the info,
your the first person I've talked with that is using os2 / 3ds. Is there anyway
I could get a copy of your config.sys? Is there any special settings? Now that
I think of it I've upgraded my system alot since I last tried. Hmmmm.
-=Mike=-
>> any special settings? <<
For my slave sessions, I have a special 3DS-VGA.SET file which is configured
for plain vanilla VGA. OS/2 is much happier running DOS apps in the background
that use simple video modes.
I doubt there is anything of use in my config.sys for OS/2 since it is just an
ordinary config.sys. I have made no special modifications for running 3DS.
Oh, some programs like PAR.EXE require the use of a more normal DOS, like DOS
5.0. So for those programs, I boot from a DOS image. It works great.
— James — MAP —
Thanks for the info, I'll try that again this week. By the way what's the "MAP"
stand for (that's my initiatials). -=Mike=- the MAP.
>> what's the "MAP" stand for (that's my initiatials) <<
Hey, that is a fun set of initials!
MAP: Mindscape Animation Productions. However, I am currently undergoing a
company name change. I am still contemplating a good name starting with "M" so
I can keep the acronym.
— James E. Coulter — M________ Animation Productions —
>>Hey, that is a fun set of initials!<<
I'll never tell, people keep breaking out into hesteric's when I tell
them my middle name! ….and I TELL them Avery is not that funny! -=Mike=-
I guess laughing a middle names is an American tradition. And hey, Avery is
not so bad!
— James — MAP —
Mike,
I'm all theory here because I.m not running yet but…… I've had to upgrade
my hard disk controller for OS/2. A while back I bought a 1 GIG IDE (very
non-standard for DOS but very cheap at $499) but it came with a special driver
called disk manager that works fine with DOS, Windows , and 3DS however it
doesn't work with OS/2. I've had to order an Extended IDE controller ($69) for
OS/2 and then I should be "standard " and maybe running.
Regarding your other comment, I think that the "FULL OS/2" is really OS/2 for
Windows packaged with Windows and DOS in case you don't have them yet. Or were
you referring to "Workplace"?
Keep me informed of your progress,
Steve
>> [you are] the first person I've talked with that is using os2 / 3ds. <<
Try Doug Azzarito [72360,3555]. He was hanging out here a while back and was
very enthusiastic. Also, try Jim Giliberti [73352,451], IBM mgr. of OS/2
graphic development. He, too, <natcherly!> was enthusiastic!
I, on the other hand, have untried copies of 1.3 and 2.0 on my shelf. I still
suffer post traumatic stress from my installation of Win 3.1, and will probably
wait until I can buy OS/2 preloaded and running 3DS as an applet–unless you
can convince me differently! <G>
And what kind of name is "WARP," anyway?! My dictionary defines it as (1) to
bend or become bent out of shape (like me, after tryna install it?!), (2) to
turn away from what is right or good, and (3) a mental twist or quirk!
I'm not trying to convince ya, it's a pain, but alot less of a pain than it was
now that they really fixed it to a great extent. Actually Iwish some third
party would come along with a platform that would use the puters full potential
but I don't hold much hope for that atleast not chicago. Anyway gotta go to
3d-studio class at ucla, til then. -=Mike=-
> Try Doug Azzarito [72360,3555]. He was hanging out here a while
> back and was very enthusiastic. Also, try Jim Giliberti
> [73352,451], IBM mgr. of OS/2 graphic development. He, too,
> <natcherly!> was enthusiastic!
>
Thanks for the name drop….! BTW, a couple of things have changed. I am no
longer with IBM as of October. I am now managing Compaq's System Software
Development for the Portable Division. I am now using another CIS ID (see
above). BUT some things have not changed…. I am still enthusiastic about
OS/2 and 3DS!
JimmyG