jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) (09/29/87)
Our department just received a shipment of 20 Mac II's (5 Meg ram, 40 Meg internal disk, enhanced keyboard, monochrome (soon to be color) monitors). Since the computers are accessable to most faculty and students in the department, our department head would like some demo programs to basically 'show off' the new machines. Since everyone at Drexel already owns Macs (Mac+'s), what we need to show off are the major enhancements. Therefore, if anyone has any demo programs in the following 'areas', I would greatly appreciate it. We don't have any (legal) compilers for the Mac II yet, so programs should be in a BinHex-type format. 1. Performance increase of using native 68881 floating point instructions versus normal software emulation. 2. Programs showing off grayscales/colors. Something dynamic (ie. rotating sphere) would be nice. 3. Applications without window size limitations. Right now, we have 4 monitors/video boards hooked up to one Mac, but so far we haven't found any applications that let you expand the window past 1 full screen. Note that this doesn't have to be a demo program, but could could just be a pointer to a commercial application (which we might already have). 4. Something to show off the improved sound chip. As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff White Drexel University - ECE Dept. rutgers!liberty!drexel!jeff
fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (09/29/87)
In article <521@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes: > [request for demos to show off the Mac-II in the following areas] > 2. Programs showing off grayscales/colors. Something dynamic (ie. > rotating sphere) would be nice. I find it interesting that 6 months after the public unveiling of the machine that there are apparently STILL no demos available to dealers. Everytime I see my local dealer I ask her if Apple has released any dealer demos and the answer is invariably no. There don't seem to be very many user written demos available in the public domain either. By contrast, six months after the Commodore Amiga hit the streets there were lots of interesting demos, and even at the time of release virtually every dealer got several disks full of demos from Commodore. But, back to your question. I have been working with the author of a GIF reader program for the Mac-II and we have had a significant amount of success at displaying both hand drawn artwork and digitized images from the Amiga on the Mac-II. The Jim Sach's Amiga artwork in particular is stunning, as are many of the Digiview pictures. Digiview is an Amiga product that digitizes with a resolution of 640 by 400 pixels, with 21 bits of color per pixel (7 bit each of red, green, and blue). A special purpose converter program maps the 2 million colors into a "best fit" 256, for display by the GIF reader. At some point, probably reasonably soon, the programs and sample images should be publicly available. The first release will probably be on Compuserve, but should trickle out to other sources soon after. > 4. Something to show off the improved sound chip. Sound chip? You mean this thing has a new sound chip :-) (See comments above re demos...) -Fred -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-3614 # Motorola Computer Division, 2900 S. Diablo Way, Tempe, Az 85282 USA
stuart@ihlpf.UUCP (10/01/87)
In article <521@drexel.UUCP>, jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes: [tell what great equipment he just got...] > department, our department head would like some demo programs to basically > 'show off' the new machines. Since everyone at Drexel already owns Macs > (Mac+'s), what we need to show off are the major enhancements. Therefore, A local Apple dealer had a REALLY slick graphics/sound demo programm running on their sole Mac II. Actually, it seemed to be a demo runner with various demos. The program was quite small - maybe 20k, but the demo files were 10 or 20 *MEG* apiece! But they were great - Color pictures like the famous log&spheres screen are displayed while georgeous orchestal music plays in the background (sounds hi-fi to me!) Too bad I don't have the hard disk or the Apple's vaprous tape drive! -- Stuart Ericson USnail: AT&T Bell Laboratories USENET: ...!ihnp4!ihlpf!stuart IH 6M-313 voice: (312) 979-4152 Naperville-Wheaton Rd. Naperville, Il 60566
mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger) (10/01/87)
In article <381@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes: >In article <521@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes: >> [request for demos to show off the Mac-II in the following areas] >> 2. Programs showing off grayscales/colors. Something dynamic (ie. >> rotating sphere) would be nice. > >I find it interesting that 6 months after the public unveiling of the >machine that there are apparently STILL no demos available to dealers. Have you seen the demo of a program called DIMENTIONS? It's a 3-d design and rendering program which supports our 8bit graphics card. The demo includes a bunch of nice color pictures created with the system including a couple ray traced images. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen on a MacII. The demo program will even allow you to render your own versions of two complex 3-d objects. (The objects are a 3-d mac, and the word dimentions spelled out in big 3-d letters) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael S. Czeiszperger | Disclaimer: "Sorry, I'm all out of pith" Systems Programmer I | Smail: Room 406 Baker (614) College of the Arts | 1971 Neil Avenue 292- Computer Lab | Columbus, OH 43210 0895 The Ohio State University | UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!osupyr!artsvax!mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus) (10/15/87)
In article <119@artsvax.UUCP> mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger) writes: >Have you seen the demo of a program called DIMENTIONS? It's a 3-d >design and rendering program which supports our 8bit graphics card. >The demo includes a bunch of nice color pictures created with the >system including a couple ray traced images. It's the most amazing >thing I've ever seen on a MacII. The demo program will even allow ... >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Michael S. Czeiszperger | Disclaimer: "Sorry, I'm all out of pith" > Systems Programmer I | Smail: Room 406 Baker (614) > College of the Arts | 1971 Neil Avenue 292- > Computer Lab | Columbus, OH 43210 0895 >The Ohio State University | UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!osupyr!artsvax!mike >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So now that you've whetted our appetites, where do we GET this amazing program?!?!?!? Who can we order/steal/finagle/borrow it from???? Don't leave us all hanging on the edge like this! :-) Robert Jellinghaus | "Check out Mr. Businessman, uh-oh... jellinghaus@yale.edu.UUCP | He got some Wild Wild Life" ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET | !..!ihnp4!hsi!yale!jellinghaus | -- T Heads