jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) (05/10/88)
I was just surprised by my mail the other day, when a *FREE* update
to animate-3d came in!!! FREE, I almost fell over dead with disbelief.
They do ask for a voluntary $10 donation to help defray their costs,
and I'll probably pay it, but that was the 1st update/ notice of an
update I've gotten for any of my software. Nice Job.
They also announced some new products like a professional animate-3d
which was pricey at $500+ and drivers for controlling a vcr for frame
recording.
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Now that Tandy plans on selling it's writable CD's in formats for
music and movies, how long before we have software that can take
frames from my favorite ray-tracer and put them out in sequence to
a movie disk for later playback on a disk player. I can't even begin
to think about the possibilities that will be open to me once that
is possible. As for the musician in me, I would love to use my
Amy for home recording onto a CD. Things like this could really
revolutionize certain industries.
Any comments/ ideas?
--j
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jon wesener
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"How could something crawl within, my rubber holy baked bean tin?"johnm@trsvax.UUCP (05/14/88)
> Now that Tandy plans on selling it's writable CD's in formats for > music and movies, how long before we have software that can take > frames from my favorite ray-tracer and put them out in sequence to > a movie disk for later playback on a disk player. I can't even begin > to think about the possibilities that will be open to me once that > is possible. As for the musician in me, I would love to use my > Amy for home recording onto a CD. Things like this could really > revolutionize certain industries. Believe me, you'll be the first to hear about it as soon as I get one working. I bought my A2000 for graphics and this will be the ultimate enhancement. Unfortunately it may be a long time before even I can get my hands on one that will be usable (maybe I can get them to make it a SCSI drive, yeah that's it). John Munsch Tandy Research and Development ...!{ihnp4,uiucuxc}!sys1!hal6000!trsvax!johnm A man determined not to be "another one of those annoying Amiga owners".
doug-merritt@cup.portal.com (05/19/88)
John Munsch writes (wrt Tandy's writable CD): >Believe me, you'll be the first to hear about it as soon as I get one working. >I bought my A2000 for graphics and this will be the ultimate enhancement. >Unfortunately it may be a long time before even I can get my hands on one that >will be usable (maybe I can get them to make it a SCSI drive, yeah that's it). What's the general timetable on this? Are they still a purely R&D project, or is it moving into manufacturing in the moderately near future? (I.e. are we talking months, years, decades?) You seem dubious about SCSI interface; what kind of interface *is* likely? Something proprietary to the current Tandy line, or what? Doug --- Doug Merritt ucbvax!sun.com!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt or ucbvax!eris!doug (doug@eris.berkeley.edu) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug