jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi (12/13/89)
Can the CAD 3D II use more than 1 meg of memory? That is, can I use more and/or more complicated objects if I have over 1 MB of memory? Is there some way to play Cyber-animations from Hard Disk? In that way I could have even 80 MB (or over) of continuous Cyber-animation. Is this possible? Please, inform me because I am going to buy a hard disk and a memory upgrade. Jouni Alkio
jonathan@hcr.uucp (Jonathan Fischer) (12/16/89)
In article <1632.25855bdf@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > >Can the CAD 3D II use more than 1 meg of memory? That is, can I use more >and/or more complicated objects if I have over 1 MB of memory? > >Is there some way to play Cyber-animations from Hard Disk? In that way I >could have even 80 MB (or over) of continuous Cyber-animation. Is this >possible? Yes to both questions. In fact, I find CAD 3D II pretty crippled in 1 Meg unless I remove almost everything from C:\AUTO. And yes, on Compuserve I saw a program which plays large .DLT animation files directly from the hard drive. Perhaps someone who has already downloaded it can send it to comp.binaries.atari.st. If not, maybe I'll try to find it again on Compuserve. I kind of wish I had more time to play with CAD 3D, Cyber Control, et al. It's really ideal software for a 'personal computer.' You can have so much fun (for a great deal of work) creating objects and doing strange and twisted things to them. I've even put some animations on video tape, thanks to Practical Solutions video cable. In a sense, the Cyber system really represents what I bought a home system for in the first place -- being creative, and doing neat graphic doodads, just for the fun of it. Maybe if I ever get a TT (smiley alert), I won't have to wait so long for CAD 3D to do anything. If only Tom Hudson hadn't used floating point... you can still accomplish everything with 'fixed-point' or even just integer coordinates on a very large scale. -- Jonathan Fischer HCR Corp Toronto, Ontario, Canada