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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where is Imagine?
Message-ID: <3198@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:47:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> bbs00244@uafcseg.uucp writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <5265@uafhp.uark.edu>
> Posted: 16 Sep 90 05:44:54 GMT
> 
> Org.  : College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
> Person: Viet Ho
> 
> On another note.  Someone can give a review of Journey
> Man???
> 
> 
>   -Viet
> 
>    Viet.Ho@samba.acs.unc.edu


I was over at a friend's place the other night looking at A:J and I must say I
wasn't that impressed on the whole. There were two reasons for this:
1) The version I saw was not ready for release. It (1.0) is very buggy running
on an '030 machine. It may not be as bad on the '020 or 68000 but my friend
sure doesn't care to take steps backward to find out.
2) As usual, there's is the way everyone else does things - then there's the
Hash Enterprises method. The colour sliders are upside down. I'll be the first
to admit that there is no law saying that full saturation should be at the top
and absense of colour at the bottom, but it sure helps a person learn a piece
of softward faster when it adheres to a general sort of layout found in every
other piece of quality software available.
Just to qualify my first statement under (2):
        Roll - think of an airplane
        tilt - think of chair tilting back against the wall
        swivel - think of a swivel chair

        None of these analogies will get you closer to understanding Hash
Enterprises 3-space.
        Yes, the software is inovative. Yes, it's the only currently available
character-animation approach. Yes, it's inexpensive. Yes, the support is great.
Yes, yes, yes. I like the software and the ideas behind it. I just find it
agrivating that words I've used for most of my life have suddenly taken on a
new meaning.
There, I've said it. My apoligies to Mr. Hash and Mr. Baer.
-Ron Tarrant
a976@Mindlink.UUCP