CompuServe Thread

From Piednoel Francois Technic director of Haiku Studios ( Down in the Dumps Makers) We are a large compagny of video game development and we want to be you partner for made and extend 3d studio. For the moment we just use 3DS for the render, we use light wave, Soft image and AMAPI for the modeling. We don't know if we will use 3DS for made us games. Microsoft want to give us the new SOFT IMAGE on Windows NT. we like 3DS and we want to use 3DS again. So i ask to you one question : Is it possible to be Beta tester of 3D Studio MAX ? ? ? Please give me one answers on compuserve or Post Mail . I Think is possible to made some advertising for 3DS max in credits of DOWN IN THE DUMPS OR DEMON DRIVER i give you a Brief history of the COMPANY 1984 to 1987 Formation of the core team for the development of our first video games. 1984 Le secret de KAIPUR role/adventure game on Oric 1/Atmos. 1985 Le bagne de NEPHARIA role/adventure game on Amstrad CPC. 1986 Fer et Flamme role/adventure game on Amstrad CPC. 20,000 copies sold in France. 1987 L'anneau de ZENGARA role/adventure game on Amstrad CPC. June 7, 1989 Registration of the name COMPUTER'S DREAM at the National Institute of Industrial Protection. 1989 to 1993 Creation of the final team and of the following programs under the COMPUTER'S DREAM label: 1989 B.A.T. I – 100,000 copies sold worldwide role/adventure game on Atari ST (and the MV16 sound card for ST), PC and compatibles. (Amiga, PC, CPC, C64 versions subsequently developed by the company UBI SOFT). : 1992 B.A.T. II or "The Koshan Conspiracy" (in USA) role/adventure game on ATARI ST, Amiga, PC-VGA Seels : +100,000 1993 COMPUTER'S DREAM becomes a company : HaiKu Studios 1993 "Megarace" – Action Game on PC CD-ROM – Consulting & Programming Released date in January 94 – Cryo & Mindscape 1993 "Hard Boiled" – Action Game – Design & 3D Graphical Demo based on the comic strip from Dark Horse – Cryo's order 1993 "Dead End" – Coin-op Shoot & drive game – Design – Cryo & Betson Industries's order 1994 DOWN IN THE DUMPS – Cartoon adventure game on PC CDROM, POWER MAC, CDI,PSX PHILIPS MEDIA GAMES US & UK 's order Release date: Dec 95 1994 DEMON DRIVERS- 3D real time race game on PC CDROM, POWER MAC, PSX PHILIPS MEDIA GAMES US & UK 's order Release date: Dec 95 1994 Technical consulting and Game Design creation PIZZAROLO an interactive TV Game CANAL +, MEDIALAB order French TV : March 6th, 1995 1994 One Confidential project – Action /Adventure game PSYGNOSIS UK 's order – PC-CDROM, PSX Release date: June 96 1995 DOUBLE CLIC INTERACTIVE NEWS on PC and MAC CDROM FNAC's Order / Release date: April 95 GROUP OBJECTIVES HaiKu Studio is open to all propositions putting to work the competences of the group developing an innovative computer based project (CD-ROM applications, CDI, and others). Haiku Equipment 2 DEC ALPHA SERVER 233 Mhz / 32 Mo / 45 Go HD / CDROM X4 WINDOWS NT 3.5 Network 2 HUBS 10Bt 1 HUB 100Mbits/s 40 Pentium 90 – 1Go Mo / 64 Mo RAM / CD ROM X2 2 Pentium 66 – 540 Mo / 16 Mo 5 DX2 66 – 540 Mo / 16 Mo 4 Quadra Macintosh 1 Power PC 6100 2 PowerPC 8100 /110 1 Color Scanner 1 N/B Scanner for 2D Animation 1 YAMAHA CD1OO CD ROM Recorder 2 PSX Development KIT ……… We are Microsoft Beta tester for windows 95 Game SDK Creative Labs Developer eagle 3d Blaster. Present in Creativity 95