keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) (06/08/91)
Just got off the phone to Virtual Realities. (They are sure nice people) and Distant Suns 4.0 is out. I ordered my upgrade then and there (I had rung them about something else) No info from about whats in the upgrade I couldn't dally as international tolls cost an arm aND a leg Anyone got any specs on it. PS Kudos to Virtual Realities. They are very good people to deal with. PPS Path editor for VistPro due out soon.
mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) (06/11/91)
In article <1991Jun08.054836.6622@actrix.gen.nz> keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes: >Just got off the phone to Virtual Realities. (They are sure nice people) >and Distant Suns 4.0 is out. I ordered my upgrade then and there (I had rung them about something else) >No info from about whats in the upgrade I couldn't dally as international tolls >cost an arm aND a leg >Anyone got any specs on it. Gee, maybe I can help. Distant Suns 4.0 (which will ship on June 14 if all goes well) contains oodles of neat new features. Which include : * AREXX * hi-res interlaced double-buffered screens * the ability to move your eyepoint away from the earth and look back at the solar-system * support for anim creation * support for comets and asteroids * save and restore program configurations * completely redone interface * expanded stellar databases using up to 255,000 stars. * full-screen images, user customizable * etc, etc, etc... > >PS Kudos to Virtual Realities. They are very good people to deal with. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think so. -- "There is no problem too big that can't be solved with high explosives"-Rush Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike
koren@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (06/12/91)
> and Distant Suns 4.0 is out. I ordered my upgrade then and there
I own both Distant Suns (whatever the previous version is) and
Vista Pro. Both are pretty slick programs, and I can recommend
both.
The only thing I wish is that Vista Pro (also marketed by VRLI)
would let you deal with larger data sets, perhaps by reading the
needed section from a larger file on disk.
- steve