#IPAS "cracked"?
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I heard a rumor on the Internet that Visual Software, makers of the Visual
Reality modeling and animation program for Windows, have "cracked" the IPAS
format, and that their next version will be able to use IPAS routines, even
under Windows.
I hope what you've heard is right, but I've met and talked with the founders of
Visual Software and they've expressed absolutely zero interest in IPAS so I
really doubt the validity of those rumors. Besides, their product isn't really
aimed at the serious professional market. And their programmers are very
UNIX/X-Windows fixated, so I don't know where they would have dug up the DOS
guru to pull off a stunt like that <g>
Aaron
That's a good one. Well, I heard a rumor lately that little aliens from the
dog star landed in my computer and are using the IPAS interface to make
intergalactic coffee.
Both rumors are equally plausible.
– G
>> are using the IPAS interface to make intergalactic coffee. <<
So that's what's been keeping you up late at nights! And I thought it was just
the excitment of NT, silly me. <G>
John
John, Gary said dog star (rats god) someone else said WNT (VMS). Every time I
run the DISPLACE IPAS the aliens Coffee.bat is launched! Coffee's great, but
the shakes make accurate "face lift" dubious. Jeffrey
>> Coffee's great, but the shakes… <<
Yeah it sounded kinda strong, maybe if one could get a pastry with it.
John
Are you Sirius? 🙂
Isn't he an editor at Mondo2K?
– G
Uhm, "Sirius" is the "dog star", isn't it? Geez, I thought that pun
was so obvious, you were just playing straight man!
R.U. Sirius is one of those balding-but-Wired kinda writers, yes.
Mondo 2000 is the magazine that once explained that LED "segments"
were 64K organizations of memory… or was it the other way 'round?
I'm just a stream-of-consciousness-kind-of-straight-man, I suppose.
RU and Queen Mu were the founders of Mondo, if my recollection serves me right.
– G
Java IPAS… I'd like to get that one.
Ian.
How difficult would it be to crack if you had the 3ds and IPAS
toolkits, anyway?
If you were writing a DOS application that used the same version of
Phar Lap that we used, it would only take an ordinary super-genius.
Under any other OS conditions, even attempting it would be so
unstable as to make it unusable.
When I was chatting with O.S.G.-certified Grubba about this a couple
days ago, I got the impression that an IPAS .EXE is a pure 32-bit
application, not really linked with any PharLap-specific code. So
what does PharLap have to do with it?
I'm not trying to imply that the effort involved with reproducing the
functionality of the 3DS side of IPAS would be minimal. 🙂
But then any Windows/WinNT-based DLL plug-in scheme would be much
easier to decipher. Let's see, all the companies planning plug-ins
for Windows 3D programs: 3D Studio, trueSpace, LightWave, Ray Dream,
Strata, etc.
What happens to the plug-in market when it becomes easier and easier
to port a plug-in from one 3D mother-program to another, not to
mention the possibility of making magic glue code that makes it
possible to use a plug-in designed for one program to be used
after-market by someone with a different program?
Heck, eventually we'll have 3D operating systems in which applications exist as
plug-ins and they ALL work together.
We should all live so long.
Regarding specific technical questions, I just don't have the time to address
them right now (especially today). I'm getting ready to leave town for the next
four days (until Wednesday), so I'm busier than usual and am trying to wrap
things up.
Take care,
– G
Hi, John!
I think, that what you've heard was related to the fact that
some companies are creating tools for porting some IPASes
to Windows as plug-ins for their programs.
The most recent development in this area is
the tool from RAZOR (kind of Adobe Premiere but WAY better
with built-in PAR support),
which allows you to recompile IXPs as RAZOR plug-ins.
You can get more info on RAZOR from Digimation.
Regards,
Alex, Video International