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From: vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: X-SPECS software (was: foo)
Keywords: X-Specs,prgramming,availability
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.223328.26436@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 22:33:28 GMT
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In article <22446@cbmvax.commodore.com> chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS) writes:
>In article <Y.C-95.@engin.umich.edu> chymes@uri.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes:
>
>stuff deleted..
>
>>The Devo Kit is $50 and is back orderd, it allows you to control the
>>specs and do memory management, but the mathematical software for the
>>generation of steroscopic images is not available (but will be... sure).
>>They also send some goodies like a tech report from a sigraph, and
>>references to other articles.
>
>A package called "xspecs.library" is available on Compu*erve's
>AMIGATECH interest group.  This may or may not be what is shipped
>in the "Devo (sounds like techno-punk-music to me) Kit", but it
>should get you started.  It includes a runtime Amiga library that
>lets you draw lines and sprites in a virtual 3d space, no fuss, no
>muss.  I was quiet surprised at how little code it took to get
>something running.

NOTE:  This is *not* the same as the developer's kit from Haitex.  It
is a lot easier to learn and program without any hassle.  I bought the
kit from Haitex and found it of marginal utility.  It needs strange and
complex data structures for memory management, and it does not come with
a single line of source code.  I returned it in favour of the PD library
from Compuserve.  It is *so* much easier to program, and includes a lot
of functions which can be used directly.

>
>BTW, if you're coding in C, there is a seperate file that contains
>the C glue files and a bit of sample code.
>
>>Charles Hymes
>
>Charles - If you asking for emailed responses, could you please post
>the results, There seems to be as much interest in X-Specs now
>as there was when they where introduced.  (I guess they where really
>a "product before its time."
>

I would be interested in hearing about other X-Specs programmers also.
I have a 3D version of Dazzle - a graphic display program from an
early Fish disk using the PD library from CompuServe.

>
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