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| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:16:13 EST |
| From: | sbtaus@ibm.net |
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| To: | 32bits@sbt.net.au |
| Subject: | OS/2 News, Views & PRs part II 4/5/97 |
OS/2 News, Views & PRs part II 4/5/97
somehow I hit the send button too quickly....
In the local news, we have heard from the Alley Cat that Your Computer will
cease to publish. Federal Publishing is closing down several of their
magazines, and, sadly, YC is on of them.
It's a sad story for staff, contributors and readers. YC has been one of the
oldest, and wholly Oz written, PC mags. Originally started (correct me
someone if I am rwong) by Les Bell and Matt Whelan. Matt was the editor of a
car magazine before that, Modern Motor I think. Coincidentally, both Les and
Matt are OS/2 users and proponents.
It also means no more regular (and highly informative) OS/2 product
reviews from Chris H. Last issue should be on newstand soon, has reviews on:
hmm, not sure what reviews Chris done in that issue, sorry.
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a letter:
Thanks for the quick reply, and yes I downloaded the demo... unfortunately
it's not what I had hoped... as far as 3D in OS/2 - it has no chance against
Windows unless someone brings out a more powerful 3D Application - I'm
a 3D Animator (I do it for a living) and although I love OS/2 - I'm being
forced over to Windoze simply because there's no decent 3D app for
OS/2. Everything other kind of app I need, I have for OS/2 - but when it
comes to 3D, OS/2 can't compete when a more powerful Windows app
can be purchased for half the price :(
I use Lightwave 3D (which is available in versions for Intel
Windows 95/NT, Alpha NT, MIPS NT, SGI, Amiga and MAC) but
unfortunately there's no OS/2 version - I suppose they figure they've
already covered the Intel platform with Windows :( I payed $2000 for
Lightwave - sure it's double the price, but anything with less features than
Lightwave is useless to me (and many others) ... Because of all the
problems some friends of mine (also in the Video/Animation industry)
have had with Windows they too would switch to OS/2 in a second (after
they saw my system running) if it had a decent Video Editing package (like
Adobe Premiere) and 3D (like Lightwave, 3DS MAX etc) - when they
asked me what video editing and 3D packages they could use - the only
answer I had was "there aren't any - unless you use the OLD version of
Premiere in WIN-OS2 or the OLD version of 3D Studio for DOS" which
needless to say didn't impress them.
Why am I telling you all this? - Did you know that until recently the only
people really buying Windows NT were in the video/3D industry? mainly
because all the cool new 3D/video app and hardware were coming out only for
NT :(
Anyway, as I'm probably telling the wrong person here... I was wondering if
you could maybe point me in the right direction - is there anyone that could
possibly help in this area if they knew about the apparent lack of 3D/Video
apps for OS/2?
Or is there no hope for OS/2 for this particular industry (and am I wasting
my time with it)?
The thing is, I know that most of these inefficient Windows versions of
3D/Video apps (not including Lightwave - it's very good) would be much
better in OS/2 versions - just look at Colorworks.
Is there someone at IBM that needs to know this?
Ok, I've re-read my message, and I think I just better clarify things - I
didn't intend to sound so harsh towards Neon3D - It's probably pretty good
just for creating stills, but not very good for animation - check out what
Lightwave can do at:
What Neon3D could possibly need is a plug-in architecture, Bones for
object deformation and animation (this is necessary for character
animation), Special effects like Explode, Glow, Lens Flares, support for
more file formats (import and export), Inverse Kinematics etc. etc.
(rendering to AVI would also be nice but I believe that's a limitation in
OS/2's multimedia and NOT Neon3D)
OS/2 now has OpenGL (which Lightwave uses) but what good is it when it
doesn't support any Hardware OpenGL accelerators? (This is probably a
question for IBM ;)
Well, (if you made it this far ;) thanks for you help,
Ingo Rahn
Freelance 3D Animator.
ren@mars.nettrek.net.au
Graphics Gallery: http://mars.nettrek.net.au/~ren/html/gallery.html
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Ingo,
sadly, we the users have allowed for this to happen.
We have allowed the press, the industry, the major ISVs and IBM *not* to
support OS/2 and OS/2 apps.
And, specifically in *your* area, the local design/publishing magazines will
NOT review or even run press releases of OS/2 applications.
You mentioned Colorworks:
We have demoed Colorworks to the leading design/publishing magazines:
IF IT'S NOT for Win or Mac, they're NOT INTERESTED:
our reader do NOT use OS/2.
our reader are NOT interested in OS/2.
call us when you have a Windoze version.
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RSM update
The current version (4.0) allows an OS/2 system (16-bit and 32-bit) called
Manager to call, access and control remote workstations named Clients and
running on OS/2 as well as DOS, Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51
and Windows NT 4 via all the following links: null-modem, modem (dial-in via
PSTN as well as ISDN), Netbios, IPX-SPX, native X25, native ISDN CAPI,
APPC-APPN and TCP/IP (including Internet).
The next release (4.1) planed for mid Q2 this year will add a native 32-bit
version of the Manager component specially dedicated for Windows 95, Windows
NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.
This new component will be included in all the three editions of R.S.M.
(Lite, Advanced and Professional) with a complete cross-platform
compatibility with the current Client programs.
If you need more details on the R.S.M. evolutions, visit our
Web site regularly (http://www.iss2you.com/)
Trial version can be downloaded from the web site (8-hour-connect-time
limited).
// or call us at SBT 02 9310-1214 //
// for those who applied for 4.1 RSM beta, you should be geting it next few
days//
Best regards.
Philippe-Charles Krug-Basse.
International Software Solutions.
The R.S.M. developers surfing the 32-bit wave!
Please feel free to visit our Web site (http://www.iss2you.com/).
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