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#Visual Reality Questions

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#197From: Tim WellmanAug 11, 1994 1:36 PM
I'm looking to purchase Visual Reality (VR) just as soon as I can get some more RAM and cash together. Could you answer me the following questions: Is 12 Megabytes of RAM enough to run it sensibly or wiIl I spend ages sitting around waiting for things to load. Will it run under Windows NT or are you looking to port it? Have you tried it under Chicago yet? Thanks.
#215From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT]Aug 12, 1994 4:52 PM
Hi Tim: Yes, 12MB is certainly enough RAM. You can run with 8MB, but that cuts it so close that you can't afford a very large SmartDrive (disk cache), so it slows things down. With 12 MB or more that's not a problem, so the performance gains going from 12 to 16MB are less dramatic than going from 8 to 12MB. It'll run under Windows NT, but I can't advise you as to the gotchas since I'm not yet too sharp on NT. Since we are 32-bit already, we can really take advantage of NT, and have compiled such a product. We're only waiting for a larger market need before we dedicate resources to dubugin that platform. Same as above for Chicago. We're as close to releasing a Chicago version as Microsoft is to releasing Chicago <g>. Thanks for your interest! Nick J for Visual Software
#307From: visual reality,worlAug 17, 1994 7:57 PM
My brother and I recently pooled our money and picked up a copy of Visual Reality. We were amazed at how easy it is to use this package!! I also have WorldToolkit for Windows(Sense8) and wondered if you guys had an example of any application that was currently using your .eye to .nff convertor. I am using (learning!!) the Borland 4.0 compiler and have not yet been successful in compiling the software that visual supplied w/ WTK. Thanks in advance…Keith Tomes
#1327From: Tim HillOct 20, 1994 12:49 PM
<<We're only waiting for a larger market need before we dedicate resources to dubugin that platform.>> Hey! I've got the NT version of VR! You make it sound like it doesn't exist! It has a few bugs in it but it eats the lunch of the plain Windows version which a friend of mine has! Tim