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From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin)
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Subject: Re: Journeyman V1.1 (was Re: Imagine)
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Date: 23 Dec 90 15:56:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com

Well, that article was quite informative Mark.  Thanks.  Now that I just
purchased Imagine, I'm drooling for Journeyman...ah, the trials and
tribulations of 3D. <grin>

The biggest problem I'm having now is that I constantly run out of memory when
trying to slice my extruded continents object in Imagine.  I have 5 megs and I
don't load anything but Imagine and it still chokes on it..ARGH!  Jman sounds
like the ticket if you don't want to go to the poorhouse purchasing RAM.

One thing you don't find out about products such as Imagine are the memory
constraints until AFTER you purchase it and try doing a real project.  I
thought it would be a simple matter to take a flat hi-res dpaintIII image of
the continents, convert it to an ILBM, extrude it and face it with Imagine.  I
find that 5 megs of memory doesn't cut it however.  If and when I ever get
faces on my object, I will then conform it to a sphere, add a blue sphere
inside of the continents and spin the sucker!  Of course my project involves
quite a bit more than that.  I am somewhat stuck at this point until I can
beg, borrow or steal another couple of megs.  I suppose I can just fill up my
8-up with 1-meg simms and go but it seems odd that I can't do the above with 5
megs of memory.

I also wonder why more developers do not have connections to the Internet.  I
don't see that it is very difficult to do at all.   The developers have all
the required equipment if they can be online with such services as Plink or
C$erve.  I hate having to subscribe to every $$$ service in the world to get
to talk to developers.  The latest craze seems to be PLINK.  Now this may be a
great service but that means I have to join another one and pay more $$$.

Why can't these developers setup a single machine with AmigaUUCP and get on
the net?  It baffles me.  If Plink at least supported a gateway as C$erve
does, then we could at least exchange mail with some of these developers.  

Kudos to Ken Baer who seems to keep up with the talk here and Allan Hastings
who occaisionally makes an appearance.  How about you guys talking to some of
the others to get setup on the net so that we may all pass information, tips
and ideas with a free flow (Yeah, I pay for my connection, dearly!).

-- Bob
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