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2,993 | Please help.
I have an IBM-compatible notebook computer with an LCD VGA screen. While I
was working with it this morning, the screen started to flicker a little,
which I thought was odd since I do use a surge-protector for my computer and
all peripherals. It only did this for a second and then stopped.
I left the room for several minutes and, when I returned, the screen was
completely dim, not blank, but very very dim. The contrast slider still
worked so that I could adjust it to where I could *faintly* make out what
was on the screen but the brightness slider had absolutely *no* effect.
I was plugged-in at the time (i.e., not using the battery) but I still
tried switching the battery, changing the power-saver features, etc., etc.,
all to no avail.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? If this just means that I
need to replace the screen then I guess I'll have to but I thought that the
"death" of my LCD screen would be a little less dramatic when it eventually
happened. I didn't want to take it in to be repaired before I asked on the
net about this because I already know what they'll say: "Yep, you gotta have
this replaced and it's gonna cost you $???."
I've only had the computer for about 21 months. Is that a reasonable life
cycle for a LCD display? Oh, I guess I ought to give specifics here: the
brand is Compudyne (Is this a reputable company?), it's a 386SX @ 20 MHz.
I forget the model number exactly and I was too ticked off to write it down
before coming in to work today.
If anyone can help me, PLEASE give me any advice you might have. I'm not
opposed to having it replaced, but I'd rather not if it's not absolutely
necessary. If you wouldn't mind, please e-mail me at mike@mik.uky.edu
but if you'd rather post I'll be checking back here in a couple of days.
BTW, if the answer to this question is already in a FAQ somewhere, feel
free to flame away but I would ask that you also include the location and
name of the FAQ if you don't mind.
Thanks in advance for any help... | 2 |
5,378 | I know that I've seen this question asked before, but I don't remember
seeing any answers..So here it is again:
Does any one know of an ftp site where the WD90C31 driver might reside?
I've checked cica, and I'm sure it's not there (I'm refering to the new
version of the driver that came out in 2(?)/93). I have seen it on c-serve,
but I hesitate to d/l 1 meg. at 2400 bps unless I really have to!
Alternativly, is it possible to get Paradise (or WD) to mail me the new
drivers, or don't they do that.
Finally, is it even worth the hassle of getting these things, or is
there not much improvement over my 10/92 version?
Thanks for the info,
Peter
-- | 2 |
3,769 | : I just bought a new IDE hard drive for my system to go with the one
: I already had. My problem is this. My system only had a IDE cable
: for one drive, so I had to buy cable with two drive connectors
: on it, and consequently have to switch cables. The problem is,
: the new hard drive's manual refers to matching pin 1 on the cable
: with both pin 1 on the drive itself and pin 1 on the IDE card. But
: for the life of me I cannot figure out how to tell which way to plug
: in the cable to align these.
Most IDE drives that I have dealt with have had pin 2 labeled on the printed
circuit board (this is sufficient to determine which side is which). If your
IDE drive does not have a label, then you can look for a polarization notch in
the receptacle (the connector on the drive with the pins). If the receptacle
is center polarized, that is it has one rectangular notch about 4 mm wide
positioned in the center of one side, then you can identify pin 1 as follows:
look into the pins with the notch at the top, pin 1 is at the top right. On
all drives I have seen this is toward the power connector. As for which pin
is pin 1 on the controller, well you can use the same criteria but look hard
for the labelling of any pin. Once you know which end pin 1&2 are on or pins
39 & 40 (the oposite end), then you are all set. All you need to do is keep
the pin 1 end connected to the pin 1 end. You don't even have to look at the
cable itself. Just trace the pin 1 side of the cable through. Usually the
pin 1 of the cable is identified by a different color (red usually). But
beware - many cable makers are not very careful about this - I have seen cables
with pin 40 being the one marked red. Of course with non-polarized connectors
this doesn't matter - you can plug the cable in either way and YOU decide
which side is pin 1.
: Secondly, the cable has like a connector at two ends and one between them.
: I figure one end goes in the controler and then the other two go into
: the drives. Does it matter which I plug into the "master" drive
: and which into the "Slave"? any help appreciated. thanks...
It doesn't matter what gets plugged where. But it does matter how the drives
are jumpered. There will be (amongst other options) two jumpers that you
should be concerned with on BOTH drives. One jumper will select whether the
drive is the slave or the master. If it is the master, then a second jumper
selects whether or not a slave is present. You will have to consult the
docuementation that came with you drives. If you do not have docuementation,
then just call the manufacturers hotline number or fax number if they have
one. This kind of information is routinely needed by people just like
yourself. They will fax you complete info about the jumpers. If you don't
have convenient access to a fax machine, then you can usually get voice
help. Or post the specific question to this group. (I probably won't be
able to help you).
Good Luck | 2 |
6,137 | Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part1
Last-modified: 1993/04/27
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/3 ]
===================================================
Last Change : 27 April 1993
Many FAQs, including this Listing, are available on the archive site
pit-manager.mit.edu (alias rtfm.mit.edu) [18.172.1.27] in the directory
pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is archived appears
in the Archive-name line at the top of the article.
This FAQ is archived as graphics/resources-list/part[1-3]
There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing the keyword "help" (without
quotes!) in the message body.
You can see in many other places for this Listing. See the item:
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
for more information.
Items Changed:
--------------
RE-ARRANGED the subjects, in order to fir better in the 63K/article limit.
I PLAN ON CHANGING HEADERS SOON, SO BE CAREFUL! ONLY THE "Resource Listing"
keys are sure to remain in the Subject: line!
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
9. Plotting packages
[ I'm thinking of making this post bi-weekly. What do you think??? ]
--------------
Lines which got changed, have the `#' character in front of them.
Added lines are prepended with a `+'
Removed lines are just removed. Use 'diff' to locate these changes.
========================================================================
This text is (C)Copyright 1992, 1993 of Nikolaos C. Fotis. You can copy
freely this file, provided you keep this copyright notice intact.
Compiled by Nikolaos (Nick) C. Fotis, e-mail: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr
Please contact me for updates,corrections, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not guarantee the accuracy of this document.
Use it at your own risk.
========================================================================
This is mainly a guide for computer graphics software.
I would suggest reading the Comp. Graphics FAQ for image analysis stuff.
It's entitled:
(date) comp.graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
John T. Grieggs <grieggs@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> is the poster of the
official comp.graphics FAQ
I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'.
Nikolaos Fotis
========================================================================
Contents of the Resource Listing
================================
PART1:
------
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
1. ARCHIE
2. Notes
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
6. 3D graphics editors
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
b. Commercial systems
7. Scene description languages
8. Solids description formats
PART2:
------
9. Plotting packages
10. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
PART3:
------
11. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
12. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data.
13. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
14. Introduction to rendering algorithms
a. Ray tracing
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
c. Others
15. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
a. Teapot ?
b. Space Shuttle ?
16. Image annotation software
17. Scientific visualization stuff
18. Molecular visualization stuff
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
Future additions:
[Please send me updates/info!]
========================================================================
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
======================================
This file is crossposted to comp.graphics, comp.answers and news.answers,
so if you can't locate it in comp.graphics, you're advised to search in
comp.answers or news.answers
(The latter groups usually are archived in your site. Contact your sysadmin
for more info).
These 3 articles are posted to comp.graphics 3-4 times a month and are kept in
many places (see below)
--
Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site
pit-manager.mit.edu (alias rtfm.mit.edu) [18.172.1.27] in the directory
pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is archived appears
in the Archive-name line at the top of the article.
This FAQ is archived as graphics/resources-list/part[1-3]
There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing: help in the Subject: field
--
The inria-graphlib mail server mirrors this posting (see under the
Subject 4: Mail servers )
--
The Resource Listing is accesible through WAIS in the machine
enuxva.eas.asu.edu (port 8000) under the name graphics-resources-list.
It's got a digest-type line before every numbered item for purposes of
indexing.
--
Another place that monitors the Listing is the MaasInfo files.
For more info contact Robert E. Maas <rem@btr.com>
--
Yet another place to search for FAQs in general is the SWITCH
(Swiss Academic and Research Network) system in Switzerland:
interactive:
telnet nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40], login as "info". Move to the
info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings directory. Search in the
00index file by typing "/" and the word to look for.
You may then just read the FAQ in the "faqs" directory, or decide
to fetch it by one of the following methods.
ftp:
login to nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] as user anonymous and
enter your internet-style address after being prompted for a
password.
cd info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings
mail:
send e-mail to
RFC-822:
archive-server@nic.switch.ch
X.400:
/S=archive-server/OU=nic/O=switch/PRMD=switch/ADMD=arcom/C=ch/
Enter 'help' in the bodypart to receive instructions. No information
is required in the subject header line.
1. ARCHIE
=========
The Archie is a service system to locate FTP places for
requested files. It's appreciated that you will use Archie
before asking help in the newsgroups.
Archie servers:
archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ)
archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.)
archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 (GER.)
cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel)
archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 (JAPAN)
archie.sogang.ac.kr or 163.239.1.11 (Korea)
archie.ncu.edu.tw or telnet 140.115.19.24 (TWN)
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.3.7 (UK/Ireland)
archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD])
archie.unl.edu (password: archie1) (USA [NE])
archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY])
archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ])
archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 (New Zealand)
Connect to Archie server with telnet and type "archie" as username.
To get help type 'help'.
You can get 'xarchie' or 'archie', which are clients that call Archie
without the burden of a telnet session.
'Xarchie' is on the X11.R5 contrib tape, and 'archie' on comp.sources.misc,
vol. 27.
To get information on how to use Archie via e-mail, send mail with
subject "help" to "archie" account at any of above sites.
(Note to Janet/PSS users -- the United Kingdom archie site is
accessible on the Janet host doc.ic.ac.uk [000005102000].
Connect to it and specify "archie" as the host name and "archie" as
the username.)
==========================================================================
2. Notes
========
(Excerpted from the FAQ article)
Please do *not* post or mail messages saying "I can't FTP, could
someone mail this to me?" There are a number of automated mail servers
that will send you things like this in response to a message.
There are a number of sites that archive the Usenet sources newsgroups
and make them available via an email query system. You send a message
to an automated server saying something like "send comp.sources.unix/fbm",
and a few hours or days later you get the file in the mail.
==========================================================================
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
==================================================
Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 22/04/93
compiled by Eric Haines, erich@eye.com
and Nick Fotis, nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr
Ray-tracers:
------------
RayShade - a great ray tracer for workstations on up, also for PC, Mac & Amiga.
PoV - son and successor to DKB trace, written by Compuservers.
(For more questions call Drew Wells --
73767.1244@compuserve.com or Dave Buck -- david_buck@carleton.ca)
ART - ray tracer with a good range of surface types, part of VORT package.
DKBtrace - another good ray tracer, from all reports; PCs, Mac II,
Amiga, UNIX, VMS (last two with X11 previewer), etc.
RTrace - Portugese ray tracer, does bicubic patches, CSG, 3D text, etc. etc.
An MS-DOS version for use with DJGPP DOS extender (GO32) exists also,
as a Mac port.
VIVID2 - A shareware raytracer for PCs - binary only (286/287). Author:
Stephen Coy (coy@ssc-vax.boeing.com). The 386/387 (no source) version
is available to registered users (US$50) direct from the author.
RAY4 - Steve Hollasch's 4-dimensional ray tracer - renders hyperspheres,
hypertetrahedra, hyperplanes, and hyperparallelepipeds (there's
a separate real-time wireframe viewer written in GL called WIRE4 ) .
MTV,QRT,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features.
Distributed/Parallel Raytracers:
--------------------------------
XDART - A distributed ray-tracer that runs under X11. There are server binaries
which work only on DECstations, SPARCs, HP Snakes (7x0 series) and NeXT.
The clients are distributed as binaries and C source.
Inetray - A network version of Rayshade 4.0. Needs Sun RPC 4.0 or newer.
Contact Andreas Thurnherr (ant@ips.id.ethz.ch)
prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers.
Volume renderers:
-----------------
VREND - Cornell's Volume Renderer, from Kartch/Devine/Caffey/Warren (FORTRAN).
Radiosity (and diffuse lighting) renderers:
-------------------------------------------
Radiance - a ray tracer w/radiosity effects, by Greg Ward. Excellent shading
models and physically based lighting simulation. Unix/X based, though
has been ported to the Amiga and the PC (386).
INDIA - An Indian radiosity package based on Radiance.
SGI_RAD - An interactive radiosity package that runs on SGI machines with a
Spaceball. It includes a house database.
Author: Guy Moreillon <moreillo@ligsg1.epfl.ch>
RAD - a simple public-domain radiosity package in C. The solution can be run
stand-alone on any Unix box, but the walk-through requires a SGI 4D.
Author: Bernard Kwok <g-kwok@cs.yorku.ca>
Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries:
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIPP - Scan line z-buffer and Phong shading renderer.
Now uses the shadow buffer algorithm.
Tcl-SIPP - a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering
program. Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed
SIPP without having to write and compile C code.
Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects,
scenes and rendering options.
It renders either in PPM format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format
or to the photo widget in the Tk-based X11 applications.
VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable).
VOGL - an SGI GL-like library based on VOGLE.
REND386 - A *fast* polygon renderer for Intel 386s and up. Version 2 on up.
[ It's not photorealistic, but rather a real-time renderer]
XSHARP21 - Dr. Dobb's Journal PC renderer source code, with budget texture
mapping.
Modellers, wireframe viewers:
-----------------------------
VISION-3D - Mac modeler, can output Radiance & Rayshade files.
IRIT - A CSG solid modeler, with support for freeform surfaces.
X3D - A wireframe viewer for X11.
3DV - 3-D wireframe graphics toolkit, with C source, 3dv objects, other stuff
Look at major PC archives like wuarchive. One such file is 3DKIT1.ZIP
PV3D - a shareware front end modeler for POVRAY, still in beta test.
French docs for now, price for registering 250 French Francs. Save disabled.
Some extra utilities, DXF files for the registered version.
Geometric viewers:
------------------
SALEM - A GL-based package from Dobkin et al. for exploring mathematical
structures.
GEOMVIEW - A GL-based package for looking and interactively manipulating
3D objects, from Geometry Center at Minnesota.
XYZ GeoBench -(eXperimental geometrY Zurich) is a workbench for geometric
computation for Macintosh computers.
WIRE4 - GL wireframe previewer for Steve Hollasch's RAY4 (see above)
Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing:
-------------------------------------------
SPD - a set of procedural databases for testing ray tracers.
NFF - simplistic file format used by SPD.
OFF - another file format.
P3D - a lispy file format.
TDDD - Imagine (3D modeler) format, has converters for RayShade, NFF, OFF, etc.
Also includes a nice postscript object displayer. Some GREAT models.
TTDDDLIB - converts to/from TDDD/TTDDD, OFF, NFF, Rayshade 4.0, Imagine,
and vort 3d objects. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric
views in Postscript. Registered users get a TeX PK font converter and
a superquadric surfaces generator.
Glenn Lewis <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>
[Note : TTDDDLIB is also known as T3DLIB]
CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets, includes volume sets for
two heads, a brain, a knee, electron density maps for RNA and others.
Written Material on Rendering:
------------------------------
RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing.
RT bib - references to articles on ray tracing in "refer" format.
Rad bib - references to articles on radiosity (global illumination).
Speer RT bib - Rick Speer's cross-referenced RT bib, in postscript.
RT abstracts - collection by Tom Wilson of abstracts of many RT articles.
Paper bank project - various technical papers in electronic form. Contact
Juhana Kouhia <jk87377@cs.tut.fi>
Online Bibliography Project :
The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of
over 15,000 unique computer graphics and computational geometry
references in BibTeX format, available to the computer graphics
community as a research and educational resource.
The database is located at "siggraph.org". Users may download
the BibTeX files via FTP and peruse them offline, or telnet to
"siggraph.org" and log in as "biblio" and interactively search
the database for entries of interest, by keyword.
For the people without Internet access, there's also an e-mail
server. Send mail to
archive-server@siggraph.org
and in the subject or the body of the message include the message send
followed by the topic and subtopic you wish. A good place to start is
with the command
send index
which will give you an up-to-date list of available information.
Additions/corrections/suggestions may be directed to the admin,
"bibadmin@siggraph.org".
Image Manipulation Libraries:
-----------------------------
Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools.
PBMPLUS - a great package for image conversion and manipulation.
LIBTIFF - library for reading/writing TIFF images.
ImageMagick - X11 package for display and interactive manipulation
of images. Uses its own format (MIFF), and includes some converters.
xv - X-based image display, manipulation, and format converter.
xloadimage, xli - displays various formats on an X11 screen.
Khoros - a huge, excellent system for image processing, with a visual
programming interface and much much more. Uses X windows.
FBM - another set of image manipulation tools, somewhat old now.
Img - image manipulation, displays on X11 screen, a bit old now.
xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11
XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation
extensions), DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l) and IFF
pictures(including HAM,EHB and color cycling)
SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
for image manipulation and conversion
CLRpaint - A 24-bit paint program for SGI 24bit workstations and 8bit Indigos.
Libraries with code for graphics:
---------------------------------
Graphics Gems I,II,III - code from the ever so useful books.
spline-patch.tar.Z - spline patch ray intersection routines by Sean Graves
kaleido - Computation and 3D Display of Uniform Polyhedra. Mirrored in
wuarchive. This package computes (and displays) the metrical
properties of 75 polyhedra. Author: Dr. Zvi Har'El,
e-mail: rl@gauss.technion.ac.il
(*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date.
NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...):
-------------
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]: /graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file
for a roadmap. /graphics/graphics/objects/TDDD - *the TTDDD objects
and converters*, /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray tracer, MTV
ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBMPLUS, popi, Utah raster toolkit.
/mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer, FLI RayTracker demos.
/pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*, /graphics/graphics/radiosity - Radiance
and Indian radiosity package. /msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21
of Xsharp, with fast texture mapping. There's lots more, including
bibs, Graphics Gems I & II code, OFF, RTN, Radiance, NFF, SIPP, spline
patch intersection routines, textbook errata, source code from Roy
Hall's book "Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery", etc
graphics/graphics/packages/kaleido - *kaleido*
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]: /pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade
4.0 ray tracer (and separate 387 executable)*, *color quantization
code*, *SPD*, *RT News*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, "RT bib*, *Utah
Raster Toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems I, II & III code*.
/pub/graphics directory - *SALEM* and other stuff.
Craig Kolb <cek@princeton.edu>
[replaces weedeater.math.yale.edu - note the capital "G" in
pub/Graphics] Because there's a trouble with princeton's incoming
area, you can upload Rayshade-specific stuff to
weedeater.math.yale.edu [128.36.23.17]
alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*,
/pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray1.0 - *PVRay Compuserve group ray tracer (or PoV)*.
David Buck <david_buck@carleton.ca>
avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.31.11]: 3D objects (multiple formats),
utilities, file format documents.
This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net.
Francisco X DeJesus <dejesus@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil>
omicron.cs.unc.edu [152.2.128.159]: pub/softlab/CHVRTD - Chapel Hill
Volume Rendering Test Datasets.
ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]: - Official DDJ FTP repository.
*XSHARP*
peipa.essex.ac.uk [155.245.115.161]: the Pilot European Image Processing
Archive; in a directory ipa/synth or something like that, there are
image synthesis packages.
Adrian Clarke <alien@essex.ac.uk>
barkley.berkeley.edu [128.32.142.237] : tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0b.tar.Z -
*Tcl-SIPP*
Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com or markd@NeoSoft.com>
acs.cps.msu.edu [35.8.56.90]: pub/sass - *X window fonts converter into
Rayshade 3.0 polygons*, Rayshade animation tool(s).
Ron Sass <sass@cps.msu.edu>
hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package.
Greg Ward <gjward@lbl.gov>
geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/geomview - *GEOMVIEW*
Contact (for GEOMVIEW): software@geom.umn.edu
ftp.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] : pub/gvl.tar.Z - the latest version of Bob,
Icol and Raz. Source, a manual, man pages, and binaries for
IRIX 4.0.5 are included (Bob is a real time volume renderer)
pub/ contains also many volume datasets.
Ken Chin-Purcell <ken@ahpcrc.umn.edu>
ftp.kpc.com [144.52.120.9] : /pub/graphics/holl91 - Steve Hollasch's
Thesis, /pub/graphics/ray4 - *RAY4*, /pub/graphics/wire4 - *WIRE4*.
/pub/mirror/avalon - mirror of avalon's 3D objects repository.
Steve Hollasch <hollasch@kpc.com>
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] : programs/hollasch-4d - RAY4,
SGI Explorer modules and Postscript manual, etc.
zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic
documents about many object and image formats.
Mark Hall <foo@cs.rice.edu>
will apparently no longer be maintaining it, see ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
rascal.ics.utexas.edu [128.83.144.1]: /misc/mac/inqueue - VISION-3D facet
based modeller, can output RayShade and Radiance files.
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50] : misc/file.formats/graphics.formats -
contains various image- and object-format descriptions. Many SciVi
tools in various directories, e.g. SGI/Alpha-shape/Alvis-1.0.tar.Z -
3D alpha-shape visualizer (SGI machines only),
SGI/Polyview3.0/polyview.Z - interactive visualization and analysis of
3D geometrical structures.
Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] : /iraf - the IRAF astronomy package
ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]: sigma/erich - SPD images and Haines thesis
images. pub/images - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences.
Kevin Martin <sigma@ipl.rpi.edu>
ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]: pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene
language & renderers. Joel Welling <welling@seurat.psc.edu>
ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, RayShade data files.
Jef Poskanzer <jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov>
george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]: pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS (Complex
Conversion System), a standard software interface for image processing*
hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16]: /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics - best of
comp.graphics (very extensive), ray-tracers - DBW, MTV, QRT, and more.
Joe Dellinger <joe@hanauma.stanford.edu>
ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - *IRIT*, RT News back issues (not
complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material.
/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for
reading and writing JPEG files.
freebie.engin.umich.edu [141.212.68.23]: *Utah Raster Toolkit*,
Spencer Thomas <thomas@eecs.umich.edu>
export.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.0.12] : /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage,
xli, xv, Img, lots more. /pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA Graphics
Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite.
life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*.
Jamie Painter <jamie@cs.utah.edu>
gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
Also GPC Benchmark files (planned, but not checked).
Randi Rost <rost@kpc.com>
hubcap.clemson.edu [130.127.8.1]: /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine - stuff for the
Amiga Imagine & Turbo Silver ray tracers. /pub/amiga/TTDDDLIB -
*TTDDDLIB* /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine/objects - MANY objects.
Glenn Lewis <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>
pprg.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.10]: /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing
package (huge, but great)*.
Danielle Argiro <danielle@bullwinkle.unm.edu>
expo.lcs.mit.edu [18.30.0.212]: contrib - *PBMPLUS portable bitmap package*,
*poskbitmaptars bitmap collection*, *Raveling Img*, xloadimage. Jef
Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
venera.isi.edu [128.9.0.32]: */pub/Img.tar.z and img.tar.z - some image
manipulation*, /pub/images - RGB separation photos.
Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>
ucsd.edu [128.54.16.1]: /graphics - utah rle toolkit, pbmplus, fbm,
databases, MTV, DBW and other ray tracers, world map, other stuff.
Not updated much recently.
castlab.engr.wisc.edu [128.104.52.10]: /pub/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*
/pub/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*
Mark Spychalla <spy@castlab.engr.wisc.edu>
sgi.com [192.48.153.1]: /graphics/tiff - TIFF 6.0 spec & *LIBTIFF* software
and pics. Also much SGI- and GL-related stuff (e.g. OpenGL manuals)
Sam Leffler <sam@sgi.com>
[supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]
surya.waterloo.edu [129.97.129.72]: /graphics - FBM, ray tracers
ftp.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.22]: /sdscpub - *SDSC*
ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /brl-cad - information on how to get the
BRL CAD package & ray tracer. /images - various test images.
A texture library has also begun here.
Lee A. Butler <butler@BRL.MIL>
cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]: /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale
Brodatz textures,
from Julien Flack <julien@scs.leeds.ac.uk>.
karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]: pub/Graphics/rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's
RT abstracts*, VM_pRAY.
J. Eric Townsend <jet@karazm.math.uh.edu or jet@nas.nasa.gov>
ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]: /users/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive
(small). James Ralston Crawford <qralston@gl.pitt.edu>
ftp.tc.cornell.edu [128.84.201.1]: /pub/vis - *VREND*
sunee.waterloo.edu [129.97.50.50]: /pub/raytracers - vivid, *REND386*
[or sunee.uwaterloo.ca]
archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.153]: /msdos/graphics - PC graphics stuff.
/msdos/graphics/raytrace - VIVID2.
apple.apple.com [130.43.2.2?]: /pub/ArchiveVol2/prt.
research.att.com [192.20.225.2]: /netlib/graphics - *SPD package*, ~/polyhedra -
*polyhedra databases*. (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib
automatic mail replier: UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
netlib@ornl.gov. Send one line message "send index" for more info,
"send haines from graphics" to get the SPD)
siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]: SIGGRAPH archive site.
publications - *Online Bibliography Project*, Conference proceedings
in various electronic formats (papers, panels), SIGGRAPH Video Review
information and order forms.
Other stuff in various directories.
Automatic mailer is archive-server@siggraph.org ("send index").
ftp.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159]: pub/reaction_diffusion - Greg Turk's work on
reaction-diffusion textures, X windows code (SIGGRAPH '91)
avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]: ~ftp/VolVis92 - Volume datasets from the
Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92. This site is also the
International AVS Center.
Terry Myerson <tvv@ncsc.org>
uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]: pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT
(Simple User Interface Toolkit). "finger suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu"
to get detailed instructions.
nexus.yorku.ca [130.63.9.66]: /pub/reports/Radiosity_code.tar.Z - *RAD*
/pub/reports/Radiosity_thesis.ps.Z - *RAD MSc. Thesis*
[This site will be changed to ftp.yorku.ca in the near future]
milton.u.washington.edu [128.95.136.1] - ~ftp/public/veos - VEOS Virtual
Reality and distributed applications prototyping environment
for Unix. Veos Software Support : veos-support@hitl.washington.edu
oldpublic/fly - FLY! 3D Visualization Software demo.
That package is built for "fly-throughs" from various datasets in
near real-time. There are binaries for many platforms.
Also, much other Virtual Reality stuff.
zug.csmil.umich.edu [141.211.184.2]: X-Xpecs 3D files (an LCD glass shutter
for Amiga computers - great for VR stuff!)
sugrfx.acs.syr.edu [128.230.24.1]: Various stereo-pair images.
[ Has closed down :-( ]
sunsite.unc.edu [152.2.22.81]: /pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality -
Final copy of the sugrfx.acs.syr.edu archive that ceased to exist.
It contains Powerglove code, VR papers, 3D images and IRC research
material.
Jonathan Magid <jem@sunSITE.unc.edu>
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]: pub/siggraph92 - Code for
Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques)
Dr. David S. Ebert <ebert@cis.ohio-state.edu>
lyapunov.ucsd.edu [132.239.86.10]: This machine is considered the
repository for preprints and programs for nonlinear dynamics,
signal processing, and related subjects (and fractals, of course!)
Matt Kennel <mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu>
cod.nosc.mil [128.49.16.5]: /pub/grid.{ps,tex,ascii} - a short survey of
methods to interpolate and contour bivariate data
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]: /honig --- Various stereo-pair images,
movie.c - animates a movie on an X display (8-bit and mono) with
digital subtraction.
taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13]: pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z - Human
head data
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217]: pub/texture_maps - Hans du Buf's grayscale
test textures (aerial swatches, Brodatz textures, synthetic swatches).
Space & planetary image repository. Provides access to >150 CD-ROMS
with data/images (3 on-line at a time).
pub/info/beginner-info - here you should start browsing.
Colby Kraybill <opus@pioneer.unm.edu>.
cs.brown.edu [128.148.33.66] : *SRGP/SPHIGS* . For more info on SRGP/SPHIGS:
mail -s 'software-distribution' graphtext@cs.brown.edu
pdb.pdb.bnl.gov [130.199.144.1] has data about various organic molecules,
bonds between the different atoms, etc.
Atomic coordinates (and a load of other stuff) are contained in the
"*.ent" files, but the actual atomic dimemsions seem to be missing.
You could convert these data to PoV, rayshade, etc.
biome.bio.ns.ca [142.2.20.2] : /pub/art - some Renoir paintings,
Escher's pictures, etc.
ic16.ee.umanitoba.ca [] : /specmark - sample set of images from the
`Images from the Edge' CD-ROM (images of atomic landscapes, advanced
semiconductors, superconductors and experimental surface
chemistry among others). Contact ruskin@ee.umanitoba.ca
explorer.dgp.toronto.edu [128.100.1.129] : pub/sgi/clrpaint - *CLRpaint*
pub/sgi/clrview.* - CLRview, a tool that aids in visualization
of GIS datasets in may formats like DXF, DEM, Arc/Info, etc.
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from Magellan
and Viking missions etc. Get pub/SPACE/Index first.
pub/SPACELINK has most of the SpaceLink service data (see below)
e-mail server available: send mail to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov
(or ames!archive-server) with subject:"help"
or "send SPACE Index" (without the quotes!)
Peter Yee <yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.6.2]: images, other data, etc. from JPL
missions. Modem access at (818)-354-1333 (no parity, 8 data bits, 1
stop bit).
newsdesk@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170
spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov [128.158.13.250] (passwd:guest) : space graphics
and GIF images from NASA's planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope.
Main function is support for teachers (you can telnet also to this
site). Dial up access: (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud,
8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit).
stsci.edu [130.167.1.2] : Hubble Space Telescope stuff (images and other
data). Read the README first!
Pete Reppert <reppert@stsci.edu> or Chris O'Dea <odea@stsci.edu>
pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]: /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of
FAQs. graphics and pictures directories of particular interest.
[Also available from mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu by sending a mail
message containing: help]
UUCP archive: avatar - RT News back issues. For details, write Kory Hamzeh
<kory@avatar.avatar.com>
EUROPE:
-------
nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]: *pub/sci/papers - *Paper bank project,
including Pete Shirley's entire thesis (with pics)*, *Wilson's RT
abstracts*, pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data bank,
comp.graphics.research archive, *India*, and much, much more.
Juhana Kouhia <jk87377@cs.tut.fi>
dasun2.epfl.ch [128.178.62.2]: Radiance. Good for European sites, but
doesn't carry the add-ons that are available for Radiance.
isy.liu.se [130.236.1.3]: pub/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z - *SIPP* scan line z-buffer
and Phong shading renderer. Jonas Yngvesson <jonas-y@isy.liu.se>
irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
NFF format scenes, RayShade data files. Didier Badouel
<badouel@irisa.irisa.fr> [may have disappeared]
phoenix.oulu.fi [130.231.240.17]: *FLI RayTracker animation files (PC VGA) -
also big .FLIs (640*480)* *RayScene demos* [Americans: check wuarchive
first]. More animations to come. Jari Kahkonen
<hole@phoenix.oulu.fi>
jyu.fi [128.214.7.5]: /pub/graphics/ray-traces - many ray tracers, including
VM_pRAY, DBW, DKB, MTV, QRT, RayShade, some RT News, NFF files. Jari
Toivanen <toivanen@jyu.fi>
garbo.uwasa.fi [128.214.87.1]: Much PC stuff, etc., /pc/source/contour.f -
FORTRAN program to contour scattered data using linear triangle-based
interpolation
asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17]: pub/RTrace - *RTrace* nffutils.tar.Z (NFF
utilities for RTrace), medical data (CAT, etc.) converters to NFF,
Autocad to NFF Autolisp code, AUTOCAD 11 to SCN (RTrace's language)
converter and other goodies. Antonio Costa (acc@asterix.inescn.pt)
vega.hut.fi [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT,
others), NFF, some models.
[ It was shut down months ago , check under nic.funet.fi -- nfotis ]
sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc
unix.hensa.ac.uk [] : misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z - CGM viewer and
converter.
There's an e-mail server also - mail to archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk
with the message body "send misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z"
maeglin.mt.luth.se [130.240.0.25]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc -
*Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid.
ftp.fu-berlin.de [130.20.225.2]: /pub/unix/graphics/rayshade4.0/inputs -
aq.tar.Z is RayShade aquarium [Americans: check princeton.edu first).
Heiko Schlichting <heiko@math.fu-berlin.de>
maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code
Andreas Thurnherr <ant@ips.id.ethz.ch>
osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]: /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga
port of Radiance 2.0*. Per Bojsen <bojsen@ithil.id.dth.dk>
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9] : *PoV raytracer*
Mirrored in wuarchive, has many goods for PoV.
pub/dkbtrace/incoming/polyray - Polyray raytracer
pub/dkbtrace/incoming/pv3d* - *PV3D*
ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]: /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of
the hubcap Imagine files.
neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench*
Peter Schorn <schorn@inf.ethz.ch>
iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]: /Graphics/graphtal* - a L-system interpreter.
Christoph Streit <streit@iam.unibe.ch>
amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80]: /amiga/gfx - Graphics stuff
for the Amiga computer.
stesis.hq.eso.org [134.171.8.100]: on-line access to a huge astronomical
database. (login:starcat;no passwd)
DECnet:STESIS (It's the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility)
Benoit Pirenne <bpirenne@eso.org>, phone +49 89 320 06 433
MIDDLE EAST
-----------
gauss.technion.ac.il [132.68.112.60]: *kaleida*
AUSTRALIA:
----------
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.70.62]: pub - *VORT(ART) ray tracer*, *VOGLE*,
Wilson's ray tracing abstracts, /pub/contrib/artscenes (ART scenes from
Italy), pub/images/haines - Haines thesis images, Graphics Gems code,
SPD, NFF & OFF databases, NFF and OFF previewers, plus some 8- and
24bit images and lots of other stuff. pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*
Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>
munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - *VORT (ART) 2.1 CSG and
algebraic surface ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. /graphics
- room.tar.Z (ART scenes from Italy).
David Hook <dgh@munnari.oz.au>
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au [134.7.1.1]: pub/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation,
pub/graphics/bibliography/Morph, pub/graphics/bibliography/UI -
stuff about Facial animation, Morphing and User Interfaces.
pub/fascia - Fred Parke's fascia program.
Valerie Hall <val@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au>
OCEANIA - ASIA:
---------------
#ccu1.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.3.1]: ftp/mac/architec - *VISION-3D facet
based modeller, can output RayShade files*. Many other neat things
# for Macs. Paul Bourke <pdbourke@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz>
+[ For users outside NZ - go to wuarchive.wustl.edu, directory
+ /mirrors/architec ]
scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]: ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks
site for facial animation.
Steve Franks <stevef@csl.sony.co.jp OR stevef@cs.umr.edu>
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
===========================================
Please check first with the FTP places above, with archie's help.
Don't overuse mail servers.
There are some troubles with wrong return addresses. Many of these
mail servers have a command like
path a_valid_return_e-mail_address
to get a hint for sending back to you stuff.
DEC's FTPMAIL
-------------
Send a one-line message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com WITHOUT a Subject: field,
and having a line containing the word 'help'.
You should get back a message detailing the relevant procedures you
must follow in order to get the files you want.
Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work
for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send
requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply.
Complaints should be sent to the ftpmail-request@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com
address rather than to postmaster, since DECWRL's postmaster is not
responsible for fixing ftpmail problems.
BITFTP
------
For BITNET sites ONLY, there's BITFTP@PUCC.
Send a one-line 'help' message to this address for more info.
+RED
+---
+ RED - Listserv Redirector is essentially a mail server.
+ The Server Sites that are available are:
+
+ Location EARN/BITNET Internet
+ -------------- ---------------- -------------------
+ In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN TRICKLE@EGE.EDU.TR
+ In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11
+ In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI
+ In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11 TRICKLE@UFSIA.AC.BE
+ In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11
+ In Germany: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I TRICKLE@RUSVM1.RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE
+ In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM TRICKLE@VM.TAU.AC.IL
+ In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN TRICKLE@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL
+ In France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11 TRICKLE@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR
+ In Colombia: TRICKLE@UNALCOL TRICKLE@UNALCOL.UNAL.EDU.CO
+ In Taiwan: TRICKLE@TWNMOE10 TRICKLE@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW
+
+ You are urged to use the one that is closer to your location.
+ Send a message to one of these containing the body
+
+ /HELP
+
+ and you'll get more instructions.
Lightwave 3D mail based file-server
-----------------------------------
A mail based file server for 3D objects, 24bit JPEG images, GIF images
and image maps is now online for all those with Internet mail access.
The server is the official archive site for the Lightwave 3D mail-list
and contains many PD and Shareware graphics utilities for
several computer platforms including Amiga, Atari, IBM and Macintosh.
The server resides on a BBS called "The Graphics BBS". The BBS is
operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week at the phone number of +1
908/469-0049. It has upgraded its modem to a Hayes Ultra 144
V.32bis/V.42bis, which has speeds from 300bps up to 38,400bps.
If you would like to submit objects, scenes or images to the server,
please pack, uuencode and then mail the files to the address:
server@bobsbox.rent.com.
For information on obtaining files from the server send a mail message
to the address file-server@graphics.rent.com with the following in
the body of the message:
HELP
/DIR
And a help file describing how to use the server and a complete
directory listing will be sent to you via mail.
[ Now it includes the Cyberware head and shouders in TTDDD format! Check it
out, only if you can't use FTP! -- nfotis ]
INRIA-GRAPHLIB
--------------
Pierre Jancene and Sabine Coquillart launched the inria-graphlib mail
server a few months ago.
echo help | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and
how to browse among its files.
echo send contents | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will return the extended summary.
As an other example :
echo send cgrl from Misc | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will return the Computer Graphics Resource Listing mirrored from
comp.graphics.
BBSes
-----
There are many BBSes that store datafiles, etc.etc., but a guide to these
is beyond the scope of this Listing (and the resources of the author!)
If you can point to me Internet- or mail- accessible BBSes that carry
interesting stuff, send me info!
Studio Amiga is a 3D modelling and ray tracing specific BBS, (817) 467-3658.
24 hours, 105 Meg online.
--
From Jeff Walkup <pwappy@well.sf.ca.us>:
"The Castle" 415/355-2396 (14.4K/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis/MNP)
(In Pacifica, dang close to San Francisco, California, USA)
The new-user password is: "TAO".
[J]oin base #2; The Castle G/FX, Anim, Video, 3D S.I.G., of which
I am the SIG-Op, "Lazerus".
--
Bob Lindabury operates a BBS (see above the entry for "The Graphics BBS")
--
'You Can Call Me Ray' ray tracing related BBS in Chicago suburbs (708-358-5611)
or (708-358-8721)
--
Digital Pixel (Sysop: Mark Ng <mcng@descartes.waterloo.edu>) is based at
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Phone : (416) 298 1487
Storage space: 330 megs
Modem type: 14.4k baud,16.8k (Zyxel) , v32bis ,v32, mnp 5
Access Fee: none.. (free)
System supported : DOS, OS/2, Amiga, Mac.
Netmail: Currently no echo mail.
Topics: Raytracing, Fractals, Graphics programming, CAD, Any Comp.
Graphics related
--
From: David Tiberio <dtiberio@ic.sunysb.edu>
Amiga Graphics BBS (516) 473-6351 in Long Island, New York,
running 24 hours at 14.4k v.32bis, with 157 megs on line.
We also subscribe to 9 mailing lists, of which 5 originate
from our BBS, with 3 more to be added soon. These include:
Lightwave, Imagine, Real 3D (ray tracing)
Database files include:
Imagine 3D objects, 3D renderings, scalable fonts, music
modules, sound samples, demos, animations, utilities,
text databases, and pending Lightwave 3D objects.
--
The Graphics Alternative
The Graphics Alternative is in El Cerrito, CA., running 24 hours a
day at 14.4k HST/v.32bis, with 642MB online and a 1300+ user base.
TGA runs two nodes, node 1 (510) 524-2780 is for public access and
includes a free 90 day trial subscription. TGA is the West Coast
Host for PCGnet, The Profesional CAD and Graphics Network, supporting
nodes across the Continental U.S., Alaska, New Zealand, Australia,
France and the UK.
TGA's file database includes MS-DOS executables for POV, Vivid,
RTrace, Rayshade, Polyray, and others. TGA also has numerous
graphics utilities, viewers, and conversion utilities. Registered
Vivid users can also download the latest Vivid aeta code from a
special Vivid conference.
--
From: Scott Bethke <sbathkey@access.digex.com>
The Intersection BBS, 410-250-7149.
This BBS Is dedicated to supporting 3D Animators.The system is provided
FREE OF CHARGE, and is NOT Commercialized in ANYWAY.
Users are given FULL Access on the first call.
Features: Usenet NEWS & Internet Mail, Fidonet Echo's & Netmail,
200 Megs online, V.32bis/V.42bis Modem.
Platforms of interest: Amiga & The VideoToaster, Macintosh, Ms-Dos,
Unix Workstations (Sun, SGI, etc), Atari-ST.
--
From: Alfonso Hermida <afanh@robots.gsfc.nasa.gov>:
Pi Square BBS (301)725-9080 in Maryland. It supports raytracers such as POV
and VIVID. The BBS runs off a 486/33Mhz, 100Megs hard drive and CD ROM.
Now it runs on 1200-2400bps (this will change soon)
Topics: graphics programming, animation,raytracing,programming (general)
--
From: Lynn Falkow <ROXXIE@delphi.com>:
Vertech Design's GRAPHIC CONNECTION. (503) 591-8412 in Portland, Oregon.
V.32/V.42bis.
The BBS, aside from carrying typical BBS services like message bases
( all topic specific ) and files ( CAD and graphics related -- hundreds
of megabytes ), also offers material texture files that are full color,
seamlessly tiling, photo-realistic images. There are samples available
to first time callers. The BBS is a subscription system although callers
have 2 hours before they must subscribe, and there are several subscription
rates available. People interested in materials can subscribe to the
library in addition to a basic subscription rate, and can use their
purchased time to download whichever materials they wish.
==========================================================================
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists
=============================================
Imagine
-------
Modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
send subscription requests to Imagine-request@email.sp.paramax.com
send material to Imagine@email.sp.paramax.com
(Dave Wickard has substituted Steve Worley in the maintenance of
the mailing list) - PLEASE note that the unisys.com address is
NO longer valid!!!
Lightwave
---------
(for the Amiga. It's part of Newtek's Video Toaster):
send subscription requests to lightwave-request@bobsbox.rent.com
send material to lightwave@bobsbox.rent.com
(Bob Lindabury)
Toaster
-------
send subscription requests to listserv@karazm.math.uh.edu with a *body* of:
subscribe toaster-list
Real 3D
-------
Another modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe real3d-l <Your full name>
to listserv@gu.uwa.edu.au
Rayshade
--------
send subscription requests to rayshade-request@cs.princeton.edu
send material to rayshade-users@cs.princeton.edu
(Craig Kolb)
Alladin 4D for the Amiga
----------
send subscription requests to subscribe@xamiga.linet.org
and in the body of the message write
#Alladin 4D username@domain
Radiance
--------
Greg Ward, the author, sends to registered (via e-mail) users digests of
his correspodence with them, notes about fixes, updates, etc.
His address is: gjward@lbl.gov
REND386
-------
send subscription requests to rend386-request@sunee.waterloo.edu
send material to rend386@sunee.waterloo.edu
PoV ray / DKB raytracers
------------------------
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe dkb-l <Your full name>
to listserv@trearn.bitnet
send material to dkb-l@trearn.bitnet
Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering
---------------------------------------------
send subscription requests to mp-render-request@icase.edu
send material to mp-render@icase.edu
==========================================================================
6. 3D graphics editors
======================
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
============================================
VISION-3D
---------
Mac-based program written by Paul D. Bourke (pdbourke@ccu1.aukland.ac.nz).
The program can be used to generate models directly in the RayShade
and Radiance file formats (polygons only).
It's shareware and listed on the FTP list.
BRL
---
A solid modeling system for most environments -- including SGI and X11.
It has CSG and NURBS, plus support for Non-Manifold Geometry
[Whatever it is].
You can get it *free* via FTP by signing and returning the relevant license,
found on ftp.brl.mil. Uses ray-tracing for engineering analyses.
Contact:
Ms. Carla Moyer
(410)-273-7794 tel.
(410)-272-6763 FAX
cad-dist@brl.mil E-mail
Snail mail:
BRL-CAD Distribution
SURVIAC Aberdeen Satellite Office 1003
Old Philadelphia Road,
Suite 103 Aberdeen
MD 21001 USA
IRIT
----
A constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling program for PC and X11.
Includes freeform surface support. Free - see FTP list for where to
find it.
SurfModel
---------
A solid modeling program for PC written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 by
Ken Van Camp. Available from SIMTEL, pd1:<msdos.srfmodl> directory.
NOODLES
-------
From CMU, namely Fritz Printz and Levent Gursoz (elg@styx.edrc.cmu.edu).
It's based on Non Manifold Topology.
Ask them for more info, I don't know if they give it away.
XYZ2
----
XYZ2 is an interactive 3-D editor/builder written by Dale P. Stocker to
create objects for the SurfaceModel, Automove, and DKB raytracer packages.
XYZ2 is free and can be found, for example, in SIMTEL20 as
<MSDOS.SURFMODL>XYZ21.ZIP (DOS only??)
3DMOD
-----
It's an MSDOS program. Check at barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu [128.153.28.12],
/pub/msdos/graphics/3dmod.* . Undocumented file format :-(
3DMOD is (C) 1991 by Micah Silverman, 25 Pierrepoint Ave., Postdam,
New York 13676, tel. 315-265-7140
NORTHCAD
--------
Shareware, <MSDOS.CAD>NCAD3D42.ZIP in SIMTEL20. Undocumented file format :-(
Vertex
------
(Amiga)
Shareware, send $40 US (check or money order) to:
The Art Machine, 4189 Nickolas
Sterling Heights, MI 48310
USA
In addition to the now standard file formats, including Lightwave,
Imagine, Sculpt, Turbo Silver, GEO and Wavefront, this release offers
3D Professional and RayShade support. (Rayshade is supported only by
the primitive "triangle", but you can easily include this output in
your RayShade scripts)
The latest demo, version 1.62, is available on Fred Fish #727.
For more information, contact the author, Alex Deburie, at:
ad99s461@sycom.mi.org, Phone: (313) 939-2513
ICoons
------
(Amiga)
It's a spline based object modeller ("ICoons" = Interactive
COONS path editor) in amiga.physik.unizh.ch (gfx/3d/ICoons1.0.lzh).
It's free (under the GNU Licence) and requires FPU.
The program has a look&feel which is a cross between Journeyman and
Imagine, and it generates objects in TTDDD format.
It is possible to load Journeyman objects into ICoons, so the program
can be used to convert JMan objects to Imagine format.
Author: Helge E. Rasmussen <her@compel.dk>
PHONE + 45 36 72 33 00, FAX + 45 36 72 43 00
[ It's also on Fred Fish disk series n.775 - nfotis ]
ProtoCAD 3D
-----------
Ver 1.1 from Trius (shareware?)
It's at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and oak.oakland.edu as PCAD3D.ZIP (for PCs)
It has this menu layout:
FILE File handling (Load, Save, Import, Xport...)
DRAW Draw 2D objects (Line, Circle, Box...)
3D Draw 3D objects (Mesh, Sphere, Block...)
EDIT Editing features (Copy, Move ...)
SURFACE Modify objects (Revolve, Xtrude, Sweep...)
IMAGE Image zooming features (Update, Window, Half...)
OPTION Global defaults (Grid, Toggles, Axis...)
PLOT Print drawing/picture (Go, Image...)
RENDER Shade objects (Frame, Lighting, Tune...)
LAYER Layer options (Select active layer, set Colors...)
Sculptura
---------
Runs under Windows 3.1, and outputs PoV files. A demo can be found
on wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/win3/demo/demo3d.zip
Author: Michael Gibson <gibsonm@stein.u.washington.edu>
b. Commercial systems
=====================
Alpha_1
-------
A spline-based modeling program written in University of Utah.
Features: splines up to trimmed NURBS; support for boolean operations;
sweeps, bending, warping, flattening etc.; groups of objects, and
transformations; extensible object types.
Applications include: NC machining, Animation utilities,
Dimensioning, FEM analysis, etc.
Rendering subsystem, with support for animations.
Support the following platforms: HP 300 and 800's (X11R4, HP-UX 6.5),
SGI 4D or PI machines (X11R4 and GL, IRIX 3.3.1), Sun SparcStation
(X11R4, SunOS 4.1.1).
Licensing and distribution is handled by EGS:
Glenn McMinn, President
Engineering Geometry Systems
275 East South Temple, Suite 305
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801) 575-6021
mcminn@cs.utah.edu
[ Educational pricing ]
The charge is $675 per platform. You may run the system on as many
different workstations of that type as you wish. For each platform
there is also a $250 licensing fee for Portable Standard Lisp (PSL)
which is bundled with the system. You need to obtain an additional
license from the University of Utah for PSL from the following address:
Professor Robert Kessler
Computer Science Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
[ EGS can handle the licensing of PSL for U.S. institutions for a
300 $USD nominal fee -- nfotis ]
VERTIGO
-------
They have an Educational Institution Program. The package is used in
the industrial design, architectural, scientific visualization,
educational, broadcast, imaging and post production fields.
They'll [quoting from a letter sent to me -- nfotis ] "donate fully
configured Vertigo 3D Graphics Software worth over $29,000USD per
package to qualified educational institutions for licencing on any
number of Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS or POWER Series Workstations.
If you use an IRIS Indigo station, we will also licence our Vertigo
Revolution Software (worth $12,000USD).
If you are interested in participating in this program please send a
letter by mail or fax (604/684-2108) on your institution's letterhead
briefly outlining your potential uses for Vertigo together with the
following information: 1. UNIX version 2. Model and number of SGI
systems 3. Peripheral devices 4. Third Party Software.
Participants will be asked to contribute $750USD per institution to cover
costs of the manual, administration, and shipping.
We recommend that Vertigo users subscribe to our technical support
services. For an annual fee you will receive: technical assistance
on our support hotline, bug fixes, software upgrades and manual updates.
For educational institution we will waive the $750 administration fee
if support is purchased.
The annual support fee is $2,500 plus the following cost for additional
machines:
Number of machines: 2-20 20+
Additional cost per machine: $700 $600 "
[ There's also a 5-day training program - nfotis]
Contact:
Vertigo Technology INC
Suite 1010
1030 West Georgia St.
VANCOUVER, BC
CANADA, V6E 2Y3
Phone: 604/684-2113
Fax: 604/684-2108
[ Does anyone know of such offers from TDI, Alias, Softimage, Wavefront,
etc.??? this would be a VERY interesting part!! -- nfotis ]
PADL-2
------
[ Basically, it's a Solid Modeling Kernel in top of which you build your
application(s)]
Available by license from
Cornell Programmable Automation
Cornell University
106 Engineering and Theory Center
Ithaca, NY 14853
License fees are very low for educational institutions and gov't agencies.
Internal commercial licenses and re-dissemination licenses are available.
For an information packet, write to the above address, or send your
address to: marisa@cpa.tn.cornell.edu (Richard Marisa)
ACIS
----
From Spatial Technology. It's a Solid Modelling kernel callable from C.
Heard that many universities got free copies from the company.
The person to contact regarding ACIS in academic institutions is
Scott Owens, e-mail: sdo@spatial.com
And their address is:
Spatial Technology, Inc.
2425 55th St., Bldg. A
Boulder, CO 80301-5704
Phone: (303) 449-0649, Fax: (303) 449-0926
MOVIE-BYU / CQUEL.BYU
---------------------
Basically [in my understanding], this is a FEM pre- and post-proccessor
system. It's fairly old today, but it still serves some people in
Mech. Eng. Depts.
Now it's superseded from CQUEL.BYU (pronounced "sequel"). That's a
complete modelling, animation and visualization package. Runs in the usual
workstation environments (SUN, DEC, HP, SGI, IBM RS6000, and others)
You can get a demo version (30-days trial period) either by sending $20
USD in their address or a blank tape. It costs 1,500 for a full run-time
licence.
Contact:
Engineering Computer Graphics Lab
368 Clyde Building, Brigham Young Univ.
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: 801-378-2812
E-mail: cquel@byu.edu
twixt
-----
Soon to add stuff about it... If I get a reply to my FAX
VOXBLAST
--------
It's a volume renderer marketed by:
Vaytek Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa phone: 515-472-2227) , running on PCs
with 386+FPU at least. Call Vaytek for more info.
VoxelBox
--------
A 3D Volume renderer for Windows. Features include direct
ray-traced volume rendering, color and alpha mapping,
gradient lighting, animation, reflections and shadows.
Runs on a PC(386 or higher) with at least an 8 bit video card(SVGA is fine)
under Windows 3.x. It costs $495.
Contact:
Jaguar Software Inc.
573 Main St., Suite 9B
Winchester, MA 01890
(617) 729-3659
jwp@world.std.com (john w poduska)
==========================================================================
7. Scene description languages
==============================
NFF
---
Neutral file format , by Eric Haines. Very simple, there are some
procedural database generators in the SPD package, and many objects
floating in various FTP sites. There's also a previewer written in
HP Starbase from E.Haines. Also there's one written in VOGLE, so you can
use any of the devices VOGLE can output on.
(Check in sites carrying VOGLE, like gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au)
OFF
---
Object file format, from DEC's Randy Rost (rost@kpc.com).
[ The object archive server seems to be mothballed. In a future version,
I'll remove the ref. to it -- nfotis ]
Available also through their mail server. To obtain help about using this
service, send a message with a "Subject:" line containing only the word
"help" and a null message body to: object-archive-server@decwrl.dec.com.
[For FTP places to get it, see in the relevant place]. There's an OFF
previewer for SGI 4D machines, called off-preview in
godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au . There are previewers for xview and sunview,
also on gondwana.
TDDD
----
It's a library of 3D objects with translators to/from OFF, NFF,
Rayshade, Imagine or vort objects.
Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3):
New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley
(worley@cup.portal.com)
I have assembled a set of over 150 3D objects in a binary format
called TDDD. These objects range from human figures to airplanes,
from semi-trucks to lampposts. These objects are all freely
distributable, and most have READMEs that describe them.
In order to convert these objects to a human-readable format, a file
with the specification of TDDD is included in the directory with the
objects. There is also a shareware system called TTDDDLIB (officially
on hubcap.clemson.edu) that will convert (ala PBM+) to/from various
object formats : Imagine TTDDD (extension of TDDD?), OFF, NFF,
Rayshade 4.0, or vort. Source included for Amiga/Unix as executables
for the Amiga. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views
in Postscript.
P3D
---
From Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The P3D uses lisp with slight
extensions to store three-dimensional models. A simple lisp
interpreter is included with the P3D release, so there is no need to
have access to any vendor's lisp to run this software.
The mouse-driven user interfaces for Motif, Open Look, and Silicon
Graphics GL, and the DrawP3D subroutine library for generating P3D
without ever looking at the underlying Lisp.
The P3D software currently supports nine renderers. They are:
Painter - Painter's Algorithm, Dore, Silicon Graphics Inc. GL language,
Generic Phigs, Sun Phigs+, DEC Phigs+, Rayshade, ART ray tracer (from
VORT package) and Pixar RenderMan.
The code is available via anonymous FTP from the machines
ftp.psc.edu, directory pub/p3d, and nic.funet.fi, directory
pub/graphics/programs/p3d.
RenderMan
---------
Pixar's RenderMan is not free - call Pixar for details.
==========================================================================
8. Solids description formats
=============================
a. EEC's ESPRIT project 322 CAD*I (CAD Interfaces) has developed a
neutral file format for transfer of CAD data (curves, surfaces, and
solid models between CAD systems and from CAD to CAA (Computer Aided
Analysis) an CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)
b. IGES [v. 5.1 now] tries to define a standard to tranfer solid
models - Brep and CSG. The current standard number is ANSI Y14.26M-1987
For documentation, you might want to contact Nancy Flower at
NCGA Technical Services and Standards, 1-800-225-6242 ext. 325
and the cost is $100.
This standard is not available in electronic format.
c. PDES/STEP : This slowly emerging standard tries to encompass not only
the geometrical information, but also for things like FEM, etc.
The main bodies besides this standard are NIST and DARPA. You can get
more information about PDES by sending mail to nptserver@cme.nist.gov
and putting the line
send index
in the body (NOT the Subject:) area of the message.
The people at Rutherford Appleton Lab. are also working
on STEP tools: they have an EXPRESS compiler and an Exchange file parser,
both available in source form (and for free) for research purposes.
Soon they will also have an EXPRESS-based database system.
For the tools contact Mike Mead, Phone: +44 (0235) 44 6710 (FAX: x 5893),
e-mail: mm@inf.rl.ac.uk or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or
mm%inf.rl.ac.uk@NSFnet-relay.ac.uk
==========================================================================
End of Part 1 of the Resource Listing | 2 |
7,195 |
Well, I have a different story to recount. I attempted to low-level format a
WD 43MB disk about a year ago. When I understood my error, I contacted WD.
They told me that I hadn't hurt the drive and that I should just run FDISK and
FORMAT/S on it. It was fine. Also, I understand that Western Digital's BBS
may have some low-level formatting routines specifically available for IDE
drives. You probably need to talk to them and get the straight scoop. | 2 |
3,454 |
No.
No.
No, but...
You can allocate real static data within code segments!
When you need more dynamic memory you can allocate data on the global heap.
You can forget most of what was written about memory management. Under 3.1
you have paged virtual memory. You can lock every block without hampering
the memory manager. You can use far pointer everytime without always Lock/
Unlocking the memory block.
An besides: DLL's are mostly just disguised EXE's, that happen to be called
by another task.
Karl.
| 2 |
6,313 | I've just started messing with X Windows under Linux, and I've run into this
"-<toolkit options>" thing in the man-pages of a number of X clients.
Where can I get a list of these options? Is this only an "xview" thing?
(If so, would some kind soul show me how to set it up under Linux?) | 2 |
6,124 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think you're deliberatly overstating the requirements for OS/2.
Considering that OS/2 is a multi-threaded true multitasking OS and
takes the place of DOS and Windows and more, I actually think the
requirements for OS/2 are very reasoable. I also think that anyone
using Windows 3.1 without 8 megs of RAM, a 386-40, and 200 megs of
hard drive space, is beating their head against a wall. Those are
also legitimate requirements for OS/2. In fact, the requirements
for Windows 3.1 and OS/2 are about equal.
| 2 |
1,395 |
This a wightened speed avarage for many windows tasks. The original
poster (Ross Mitchell) was primary intersted in manipulating large
images, which implies moving a lot of data from memory to the card.
Does anyone have the benchmarks on this particular task?
--
Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu | 2 |
4,189 | Our university is wanting to buy a couple of servers to provide Email
to students (@ 2300) and faculty (@ 250). Two servers are being
lokked at for one to provide news service and one mail service from a
proposed Internet connection. Are there any foreseable problems with
this proposed set up? Provided that IHETs is providing an Ethernet
line from a Cisco router into our network.
2 X 486 DX 50 MHz
SMC Elite 32 or 32TP EISA NIC
Dual Duplexed 2.5Gb SCSI-2
with 5yr parts and labor on everything but the hard drives
running UNIVEL UNIX for Application Servers
We will run CC:Mail on a campus wide Novell network to access these
<hopefully>. Is there any other aspect I should be looking at?
Which NIC do I use?
Is this enough disk space?
etc...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
| 2 |
2,991 | I'm having trouble with installing a second IDE drive on a Promise IDE caching
controller. The first drive is a conner 3204 and works fine. The second drive
is a conner 30174, it is currently unjumpered to be the slave drive. The
problem is the slave drive is recognized but is reported back as having no
free space. Disabling cache has made no effect. What else should I check for? | 2 |
3,503 |
The IBM XGA SVGA VESA driver is on the 2.02 reference diskette, available
from the IBM BBS. It's also on Compu$erve, or you can bang on your sales
rep to get you a later version. | 2 |
5,339 |
If you believe that, I have a nice piece for swamp for you for RE
development. Microsoft does even its techpubs under Windows.
That wasn't Geo Works, was it? :-)
Nonsense. Sorry, I make fun of Windows all the time, but the above is
simply a myth. Tell that to Microsoft, Novell and others who dominate
the market. | 2 |
5,796 | I need to know the jumper settings for master and/or slave operation on
a Maxtor 7080AT (80MB IDE) hard disk.
Thanks in advance.
| 2 |
4,411 |
(stuff deleted)
My 66 DX2 is about a week old and is custom built by me and for me.
I am using the PC Power and Cooling CPU Cooler. This one has
precision ball bearings in the motor. It has a pretty substantial
heat sink; so if it happened to fail it would still probably
dissipate more heat than the bare chip.
It attaches with peel off adhesive. This is a full size AT case, so
the fan has gravity in its favor. I would be a little nervous about
finding the fan at the bottom of a tower case if it happened to let
go.
All of the CPU fans that I know of are powered from a drive cable.
There are other "board" type fans which are ISA boards with a couple
of fans mounted on them. They are powered by the slot. I don't
know how effective they are; maybe someone else could comment.
The cpu is cool enough to touch with the PCP&C unit.
PC-Connection at 800-243-8088 has them for 29.95 + 5.00 next day
delivery. The Y cord is 7.00 if you don't have a spare lead off the
power supply. PCP&C make the best power supplies available IMHO. | 2 |
2,476 | We where following version of xv and I have been very surprise to discover that
the new version is a shareware: What a pitty !!! :-( .
What I found on the Inthernet was the freeware. I make myself a freeware and
I spent long time on it but I don't plain to make paid to use it. I think
if evrybody spent some time to make freeware, evrybody will be paid by the use
of other freeware.
Here we will stay with XV 2 and drop XV 3.
| 2 |
5,440 | I posted this question about colorizing motif widgets. I got it working
fine. There was one bug in my .Xdefault file. It should work fine in normal
case.
Thanks
| 2 |
5,721 |
HPGL does not support raster primitives, so a formatter would have to
punt on most popular image formats. This probably explains the lack of
translators out there. What do you need to plot ? | 2 |
4,461 | Oops, what the hell a crosspost is this ?!
Have a look onto XV-3.00 before saying anything more about it's power.
| 2 |
2,636 | I have been told by several people that Sony data cartridges don't quite
cut it in the Jumbo 250 tape drive (lots of bad blocks). If you're using Sony
tape, try switching to something else -- like maybe 3M. | 2 |
1,396 |
The only book I know of is :
"The X Window System Server - X Version 11, Release 5"
by Elias Israel / Erik Fortune
Digital Press Copyright 1992
Order number EY-L518E-DP
DP ISBN 1-55558-096-3
PH ISBN 0-13-972753-1
But if there are any more, please post/email me the names.
--
-- bkilgore
Thus spake the master programmer:
"After three days without programming,
life becomes meaningless."
- Geoffrey James "The Tao of Programming"
------------------------------------------------------ | 2 |
4,870 | Does anyone know of a program for the PC that
will take AutoCad DXF format files and convert
them to a raster format, like PCX, GIF, etc?
Thanks in advance....
ED
| 2 |
954 | Here's an interesting table showing how much resources an application
uses and how much it gives back on shut down. This is take from
Windows User May 1993 issue:
Application Min. Resource Use Resource Not Returned
GDI USER GDI USER
WinSleuth Gold v3.03 10 6 2 14
Word For Windows v2.0b 10 0 5 0
Lotus 123 v1.1 13 3 3 2
Arts and Leters v3.12 7 7 3 1
PowerPoint v3.0 9 1 3 0
Corel Draw v3.0 10 6 3 0
Micro. Designer v3.1 10 2 2 0
CrossTalk v2.0 0 0 0 0
Excel v4.0a 11 8 0 0
HiJacck v1.0 2 2 0 0
Image-In Color Pro 3 2 0 0
PIcture Publisher v3.1 21 8 0 0
PowerLeads!-
Executive Ed. v1.03 0 5 0 0
Adobe Type Manager v2.5 1 0 NA NA
Skylight v2.0 1 0 0 0
*The numbers are in percentage and are in a decreasing order.
What does this table tells you, if you frequently start and exit a
program that doesn't give back all of it's resources, then you
continually lose these resouces. Therefore, only open these programs
up once and leave them open.
BTW: Maybe people can add to this list so we know what application to
watch out for. | 2 |
166 | I'm new to the MS-Windows world, and while a fairly competent
Sparc/Nextstep programmer, I have no idea which development kit
to purchase. I have heard good things about Borland C++ with
Application Frameworks and Microsoft's Visual C++ with SDK (?)
What I would like is peoples comments on which package or set
of tools they find useful or productive and why. There are a
plethora of other kits such as GUI toolkits available and I'm
wondering which of these are best in terms of reliability, plug
and go type operation, readability and so on. I'd be interested
in comments on these or anything else you may find useful.
I will summarize to the net if there is enough interest.
Thanks,
Veenu | 2 |
6,542 |
The current Adaptec drivers do not support the Toshiba 3401. you should
get the Corel SCSI drivers, which do support it.
This is the method that I used, and it works well.
Corel's phone number is 1(613) 728-3733
Just a satisfied user.
JB | 2 |
6,975 | I am applying for an NSF grant to buy equipment for a laboratory...
The lab will need to support C (or Pascal) with graphics tools...
We can run the lab either on PC's or DEC equipment ---
If you are familiar with appropriate products (software/hardware) and precise
prices. Please contact
shai@lcc.stonehill.edu
We are interested in any available acadmic discounts....
Also, if anyone runs a lab using similar software/hardware, I would be very
interested in hearing your opinions of its success
Thanks | 2 |
4,640 |
This is almost certainly a MacBinary file which is an encoded version
of a mac file so the Resource fork and Data fork get preserved.
You need a program that converts this to a regular file. If this is a
macbinary file, you may have downloaded it in Text mode and is probably
corrupt (if you did). If you're using FTP to transfer it at any point make sure
you type "binary" first.
If you can open the file with a text editor and find
(This file must be converted with Bin....
at the top, it is a BinHex file and can be decoded with
BinHex 4.0 (among other programs).
| 2 |
4,370 | Hi,
I got a NE2100 compatible ethernet card, and I just received my copy
of Chameleon NFS. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with the NE2100
(only NE2000 or NE1000). What is the latest version number for Chameleon
NFS ? Did soemone tackle this problem ?
Thanks for help,
F. Popineau
| 2 |
6,877 |
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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.graphics
Date: 26 Apr 93 05:09:15 GMT
References: <1993Mar31.074502.3590@aragorn.unibe.ch> <1993Apr16.212441.34125@rchland.ibm.com>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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OK, with all the discussion about observed playback speeds with QuickTime,
the effects of scaling and so on, I thought I'd do some more tests.
First of all, I felt that my original speed test was perhaps less than
realistic. The movie I had been using only had 18 frames in it (it was a
version of the very first movie I created with the Compact Video compressor).
I decided something a little longer would give closer to real-world results
(for better or for worse).
I pulled out a copy of "2001: A Space Odyssey" that I had recorded off TV
a while back. About fifteen minutes into the movie, there's a sequence where
the Earth shuttle is approaching the space station. Specifically, I digitized
a portion of about 30 seconds' duration, zooming in on the rotating space
station. I figured this would give a reasonable amount of movement between
frames. To increase the differences between frames, I digitized it at only
5 frames per second, to give a total of 171 frames.
I captured the raw footage at a resolution of 384*288 pixels with the Spigot
card in my Centris 650 (quarter-size resolution from a PAL source). I then
imported it into Premiere and put it through the Compact Video compressor,
keeping the 5 fps frame rate. I created two versions of the movie: one scaled
to 320*240 resolution, the other at 160*120 resolution. I used the default
"2.00" quality setting in Premiere 2.0.1, and specified a key frame every ten
frames.
I then ran the 320*240 movie through the same "Raw Speed Test" program I used
for the results I'd been reporting earlier.
Result: a playback rate of over 45 frames per second.
That's right, I was getting a much higher result than with that first short
test movie. Just for fun, I copied the 320*240 movie to my external hard
disk (a Quantum LP105S), and ran it from there. This time the playback rate
was only about 35 frames per second. Obviously the 230MB internal hard disk
(also a Quantum) is a significant contributor to the speed of playback.
I modified my speed test program to allow the specification of optional
scaling factors, and tried playing back the 160*120 movie scaled to 320*240
size. This time the playback speed was over 60 fps. Clearly, the poster who
observed poor performance on scaled playback was seeing QuickTime 1.0 in
action, not 1.5. I'd try my tests with QuickTime 1.0, but I don't think it's
entirely compatible with my Centris and System 7.1...
Unscaled, the playback rate for the 160*120 movie was over 100 fps.
The other thing I tried was saving versions of the 320*240 movie with
"preferred" playback rates greater than 1.0, and seeing how well they played
from within MoviePlayer (ie with QuickTime's normal synchronized playback).
A preferred rate of 9.0 (=> 45 fps) didn't work too well: the playback was
very jerky. Compare this with the raw speed test, which achieved 45 fps with
ease. I can't believe that QuickTime's synchronization code would add this
much overhead: I think the slowdown was coming from the Mac system's task
switching.
A preferred rate of 7.0 (=> 35 fps) seemed to work fine: I couldn't see
any evidence of stutter. At 8.0 (=> 40 fps) I *think* I could see slight
stutter, but with four key frames every second, it was hard to tell.
I guess I could try recreating the movies with a longer interval between the
key frames, to make the stutter more noticeable. Of course, this will also
improve the compression slightly, which should speed up the playback performance
even more...
Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
I'm afraid I missed the start of this thread, but there are three factors that
can significantly affect QuickTime's playback speed that you may want to take
into account:
(1) playback bit depth (things are fastest when you play a
movie back at the bit depth it was compressed for, this is usually 8 or 16
bit, but other depths are (of course) possible).
(2) type of scaling (QT is optimized for "double size" scaling, other scaling
factors hit peformance much harder).
(3) playback window position (MoviePlayer limits your window placement choices
to advantagous pixel boundaries by default, I'm not sure about Premiere).
Any combination of those can radically alter playback performance. Image size
is, of course, another biggie. Giving the movie player lots of RAM can also
make a real difference.
Forgive me if these were mentioned earlier in the thread...
-Peter Lee
| 2 |
4,837 | Hi folks,
I'm doing an animated film on new methodes in loom
research (You know, the thing they make cloth with.)
and need a model of a loom. The format should be
in ascii faceted geometry and fairly straight
forward to figure out. Any help or pointers would be
greatly appreciated.
-Thanks
Rick Boykin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rick Boykin (rboykin@cscsparc.larc.nasa.gov)
Computer Sciences Corporation, Hampton, VA.
"So maybe I could be a fly
and feed arachnid as I die" -Tom Marshall | 2 |
5,138 |
I do not know of any "VGA" type cards that have BNC outputs but, EXTRON
sells a VGA to BNC cable set that works good with my 5FG. If you are
trying to optimize the display with a good video card try contacting #9,
@ 1-800-get-nine. I use and like the level 9 card.
| 2 |
6,946 | I am wondering how to change the English fonts in an existed
API to some multi-bytes fonts ? (such as Chinese, Japanese...)
Someone told me X11R5 supports some internationalization
features, but I cannot find any examples for my need. Is there
anybody has done some similar jobs ?
By the way, all the English fonts should be replace by Chinese or
Japanese fonts, that means in windows, menubar, button....
That will be great if someone can share us what you have done.
Thanks in advance. | 2 |
1,019 | Hello,
I am considering buying the Hummingbird X-Windows software for a MS-Windows
3.1 PC (386-40MHZ, NE2000 Ethernet board). Would anyone tell me if they
are using this package in a similar environment and if they are happy with
it? I will be connecting to Sun SparcStation 10 running Sun OS 4.1.3.
Thanks very much, | 2 |
3,674 | : ==============================================================================
: Could someone please tell me the Best FTP'able viewer available for MSDOS
: I am running a 486 33mhz with SVGA monitor.
: I need to look at gifs mainly and it would be advantageous if it ran
: under windows...........thanks
FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu,
change into mirrors/msdos/graphics
get "grfwk61t.zip"
This is the DOS version of Graphic Workshop. There is a Windows version which
you could probably find in the mirrors/msdos/windows3 directory but I don't
know what the file name is.
-- | 2 |
4,584 | Hi,
I've seen alot of ads for voicemail/fax/data modems.....this would
be way-cool if they work well....I don't want to have someone call me
and get the connecting sound of a fax machine. Do they work very well?
Has anyone out there played with one? If so, please tell me what brand
and other info like that.....
Thanks,
Kent
| 2 |
4,647 | Can anybody tell me anything about the availibility of non-Roman fonts
for X-Windows? Especially Unicode and/or han idiographic fonts.
Also, how about conversion tools for getting PC/Macintosh fonts into a
format suitable for X? I would assume it is not too difficult for
bitmap fonts.
The FAQ's for this group and comp.fonts are not very helpful on these
questions. | 2 |
6,262 |
IT'S BACK!!!!!!
Congratulations, you've just discovered a very nasty, and very frequently
ecountered, bug in the Word Setup program. Once you know what is wrong, it
is quite easy to fix. Go into the Fonts dialog under Control Panel, and select
the two fonts MT Extra and Fences. Delete them, but only delete the list
entries, not the disk files. Now select Add, and add the fonts MT Extra Plain
and Fences Plain. Close the Font box, close Control Panel, and restart Word.
Everything should be alright now.
Does anyone know if Microsoft has fixed this thing yet? They HAVE to know
about it by now, it's been so frequently reported. | 2 |
1,579 |
I think you would need a DOS macro program. Superkey (by Borland?)
comes to mind. I don't think Windows is capable of sending
keystrokes to a DOS window.
What you want to do sounds like a security problem to me, though. | 2 |
7,033 | 2 | |
5,000 | Does anyone know how to configure a DOS app in Progman
so that only one instance of it can be running at a time?
I'd really appreciate some help on how to do this. I
would prefer responses through email if it's not a big
deal, or at least through email _as well as_ posting.
Thank you!
--
James E. Lee
jelee@hamlet.ucdavis.edu | 2 |
47 |
There should be no problem with this - just remember to get the number of
wait states correct!
Guy | 2 |
6,497 | I am having a really bothersome problem using the MSDOS prompt in Windows 3.1
to open a dos box. When I am done with the dos box, I cant get back to windows.
If I do Alt enter to shrink the box or use 'exit' to close it, the screen goes
black and I have to control-alt-delete until I kill windows. I get a couple
of screens about app not responding.
I think things are still alive under the black screen because if I alt-tab
to cycle through the running apps, I get flashes of text but then the
black returns.
This persists even if the machine is powered on and off.
I am working with an app developed using Borland's 3.1 application frameworks
and c++. It seems to work fine.
Hardware is a 486 with 16meg ram; not on a network. Video is a TSENG
vga. dos 5.0.
I reinstalled windows a couple of time but the problem comes back. I am
using temporary swapping for virtual memory.
I would really REALLY appreciate any hints anyone might offer.
Thanks, | 2 |
5,285 |
I have both!
I have IDE only on my DROS box and IDE and SCSI on my Unix box.
IDE on the DROS box 'cos it only has a hard disk, SCSI on my Unix box 'cos it
has a SCSI hard disk, CD-ROM and tape.
I bought SCSI as it makes adding many devices easier. For the price of one
irq and dma I have three different types of device connected up.
Faster drives are also available for SCSI - I have a DEC DSP3085s that realy
does have a 9ms average seek time. I.E it finds data 25% faster than my 12ms
Toshiba drive.
I don't think that SCSI will increase your data transfer much on an ISA bus :-(
890KB/s is pretty good...
Many state of the art SCSI disks use the *SAME* mechanicals as many state of the
art IDE drives. Only the interface electronis differ - look at the 520MB Fijitsu
drive for an example!
I use an Adaptec 1542B on my Unix box and no-name IDE cards on both.
Caching controller! Why? What does it give you that smartdrive ( for DOS ) does
not? About 30KB extra lower memory! That's about it.
A properly configured main memory cache will produce better results than a caching
controller! My Unix reads reads data from its main memory cache at 8.5MB/s! That's
faster than the standards ISA bus can ever sustain!
Guy | 2 |
4,821 | Please Help if you can. Whenever I try to run windows useing the 16
million color mode with the drivers supplyed with my Diamond Stelth 24x
It will lock up requireing a full system reset to break out. The drivers
that I have for windows are V.1.00 for windows 3.1 (which IS the version
of windows I am useing)
My Setup
---------
386DX40 128KCach
4 Megs of ram
14" SVGA touch Monitor non-interlaced
AMI Bios
Any and all help would be apreciated, The card seems to work fine in other
modes, I usually run windows in 800x600 mode and probs at all, so I am
hopeing it is a driver and not a card problem. | 2 |
4,655 | I am looking at getting a laptop for work and I was trying to decide
between the Toshibas and Gateway's Nomad. The price is about the same,
but the Gateway has significantly better performance (200MB vs. 120MB
hard drive, 50Mhz 486DX2 vs. 25Mhz 486SL) and much cheaper accessories
(extra batteries, modem...)
The concern I have about Gateway is the durability and reliability.
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Gateway Nomad?
Thanks, | 2 |
6,638 | I'm trying to connect a Mac SE modem port to a PC 25 way serial port,
can someone provide me with a wiring diagram for a null modem lead for
this setup.
Please use Email since my news feed is a bit quirky.
Thanks in advance
Sean Gordon | 2 |
5,060 | RFD
Request For Discussion
for the
OPEN TELEMATIC GROUP
OTG
I have proposed the forming of a consortium/task force for the promotion
of NAPLPS/JPEG, FIF to openly discuss ways, method,
procedures,algorythms,
applications, implementation, extensions of NAPLPS/JPEG standards.
These standards should facilitate the creation of REAL_TIME Online
applications that make use of Voice, Video, Telecommuting, HiRes
graphics,
Conferencing, Distant Learning, Online order entry, Fax,in addition
these dicussion would assist all to better understand how SGML,CALS,
ODA,MIME,OODBMS,JPEG,MPEG,FRACTALS,SQL,CDrom,cdromXA,Kodak PhotoCD,TCL,
V.FAST,EIA/TIA562,can best be incorporated and implemented to
develop TELEMATIC/Multimedia applications....
We want to be able to support DOS, UNIX, MAC, WINDOWS, NT, OS/2
platforms.
It is our hope that individuals,developers, corporations, Universities,
R & D labs would join in in supporting such an endeavor.
This would be a NOT_FOR_PROFIT group with bylaws and charter. Already
many
corporation have decided to support OTG (Open TELEMATIC Group) so do not
delay joining if you are a developer
An RFD has been posted to form a usenet newsgroup and a FAQ will soon be
be compose to start promulgating what is known on the subject.
If you would like to be added to the mailist send email or mail to
the address below.
This group would publish an electronic quarterly NAPLPS/JPEG newsletter
as well as a hardcopy version.
We urge all who wants to see CMCs HiRes based applications
& the NAPLPS/JPEG G R O W, decide to join and mutually benefit from
this NOT-FOR_PROFIT endeavor.
NOTE: Telematic has been defined by Mr. James Martin as the marriage
of Voice, Video, Hi-res Graphics, Fax, IVR, Music over telephone
lines/LAN.
If you would like to get involve write to me at:
IMG Inter-Multimedia Group| Internet: epimntl@world.std.com
P.O. Box 95901 | ed.pimentel@gisatl.fidonet.org
Atlanta, Georgia, US | CIS : 70611,3703
| FidoNet : 1:133/407
| BBS : +1-404-985-1198 zyxel 14.4k
To all that have responded we are trying to acknowledge as soon as
possible. We have really been inundated with org, corp, edu willing
to get involve.
It would be nice if upon responded you can state in what capacity
you are willing to get involve.
| 2 |
2,733 | I am looking for GUI Builders/UIMS's which run in a VMS/OpenVMS
environment. I am interested in both Motif tools and GUI-independent
tools such as XVT. My client also requires that the tool has been
in production for at least 6 months in the VMS environment. Note
that I have the list of tools from the FAQ, but not the info on
VMS availability.
Thanks | 2 |
6,868 | I have written the file manager HFM, wich has two windows which compare
the files in two directorys to find out wether there are equal or
similar files. The 7 most important operations, copy, move, delete,
show the file, start a progam, navigate in the directory tree can be
invoked by dragging a directory entry with the mouse. This is very
convenient, because the selection of the file and the operation to
be performed, occur in one move. For bitmap graphic viewing the
program vpic can be integrated, for spreadsheat and database files
I use the view program from PCTOOLS 7.1. HFM can be configured to
use arbitrary viewers to show special data formats. It does
also present archives from pkzip etc. as simulated subdirectorys.
This filemanager has a somewhat non standart user interface, but
it is very convienient to use and is the prefered file manager
in several labs in our university.
The drawback of this filemanager is, it's still a dos program and
the development of a windows version has not yet begun. I use the
program package run18.zip, where run tells its windows companion
sched.exe which windows program should be started. In this way you
can start a windows program from a dosbox. The new version 3.19
(to be released soon) includes a new command for automating this
windows program start.
FTP archives for the mentioned programs (all these archives have several
mirror sites)
Simtel oak.oakland.edu 141.210.10.117
/filutl/hfm318.zip
/gif/vpic60e.zip
Garbo garbo.uwasa.fi 128.214.87.1
/dirutil/hfm318.zip
CICA ftp.cica.indiana.edu 129.79.20.17
/util/run18.zip
- | 2 |
5,839 |
As an earlier post noted - through DMA.
Any one time means IMHO a single byte xfer. If I have four sources of
DMA requests ready, the DMA would service the one after the other. If
the bandwidth for the four together is lower than the ISA/DMA
bandwidth, this will work.
Note that the bus mastering here is the priority mechanism in the DMA
controller.
--
Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu | 2 |
4,983 |
I use it all day every day (maintaining our ftp site and answering mail
via support@qdeck.com), and I can honestly say that in the last few
months I've never had my machine go down due to any sort of tcpip network
manager instability. (Of course, I've crashed my machine quite a few times
on purpose, during beta testing and that sort of thing, but the tcpip
portion is quite stable...)
However, keep in mind that DVX and the network managers are only going
to be as stable as the software they sit on top of (so if your underlying
network kernel is flakey, you can't expect DVX to be terribly stable...)
It just goes as a window that has graphics drawn into it. (To vastly
over-simplify what goes on, we just take the windows graphics API calls,
and translate them directly to X-protocol; unfortunately, windows was
not really written to be network-aware, so sometimes we see a speed
penalty when an app does something stupid, like sending a big white bitmap
to erase something rather than just drawing a white box; fortunately,
that sort of thing is rare...)
You need to run MS windows, which Word then runs inside. You could run
multiple windows programs within the one WinX window, and windows has
ways to automagically start winapps when you start windows, so in practice
it's not really a major problem. I have my system set up so that I can
run WinX, which automatically starts Word Full-screen (for windows), so
I never see any part of windows but word...)
| 2 |
3,738 |
Hmm...has anyone of us computer geeks (me included) ever consider
that inovation is not limited to software/hardware. True, MS
products do not boast features that MS invented, but how many products
out there by other vendors out there are truely innovative in
their continuing development?
I think what makes MS special to the public is thier innovative pricing.
It is true the XWindows/MAC/NEXT all have some feature(s) in thier GUI
that are better than MS. But people like me can't afford them.
It is true that Apple has lower their pricing on the low end models..
but they are just that...low end. System 7 is a better operating
system, but the machines they operate on just are too expensive for
my tastes...A UNIX platform is powerful enuf, but tell the common
user to set up .Xdefault (i am still confused on what some of them things
do) and they either puke or faint.
If u think about it, low prices aint innovative if u come down to it. But
for the product it offers and on the lower cost (and powerful hardware
that it runs on as compare to macs)....MS is kinda innovative..
Oh yea, I guess the fact that the support products and applications
they have garnered for MSWindows does make them kinda innovative too..
| 2 |
1,187 |
Ok It is for a game that is 3d and you have listed the characteristics
that you are looking for. I think you may have left out a few
important parameters.
The polygons are all convex.
They have less than N sides. (you are drawing meshes walls doors etc.)
I believe that the algorithms you can get that will only draw convex
polygons can be much more efficient than those that can draw
concave / self intersecting polygons.
This efficiency can largely be attributed to the fact that
simple convex polygons only have a left and a right edge on each scan line.
Complex (figure 8 type polygons) can be a bit trickier.
The less than N sides specification especially if it is a very small
number like 3 or 4 allow othe optimisations to be made.
Thus for a high speed game application I think you are looking for
code that exploits and is hence limited to drawing simple convex
polygons.
It may have been that they were very general purpose algorithms.
If you limit yourself to 3 or four sided simple convex polygons
I think you might be suprised how fast a c algorithm with a
asm block move to fill each scan line might actually be.
| 2 |
5,445 | TO: rych@festival.ed.ac.uk (R Hawkes)
RH>I've noticed that if you only save a model (with all your mapping planes
RH>positioned carefully) to a .3DS file that when you reload it after restarting
RH>3DS, they are given a default position and orientation. But if you save
RH>to a .PRJ file their positions/orientation are preserved. Does anyone
RH>know why this information is not stored in the .3DS file? Nothing is
This is because the PRJ (Project) format saves all of your settings,
right down to the last render file's name.
RH>I'd like to be able to read the texture rule information, does anyone have
RH>the format for the .PRJ file?
Sorry... Don't have anything on that or the CEL format.
....r.c V.t.ell. .r... | 2 |
5,528 |
One usual suggestion is to put everything into your every-time shell rc-file
instead of your login-only one, which is fair enough if you only have a few
users who know what they're doing. If you have several hundred users who do
what the books tell them, though, then it's confusing at best. Another is to
have your xterms run login shells, but that still leaves the window manager
and the things that get started from its menus with the wrong environment.
Our alternative is that instead of having xdm run the client startup scripts,
it runs the user's favourite shell as a login shell, and has *it* then run the
rest of the startup scripts. That way the user's usual environment gets set
up as normal and inherited by everything. You can find an almost-current copy
of our scripts and things in contrib/edinburgh-environment.tar.Z, available
from the usual places. | 2 |
3,314 | E G L I N A F B
From: DENNIS L. HART Date: 14-May-1993 02:41pm CST
HART Tel No: 904 882 3154
Dept: 646CCSG/SCWA*SAS
TO: Internet Addressee ( _SMTP[xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu] )
Subject: VXT2000 Windowing Terminal Help
Greetings!
We have several VXT 2000 Windowing terminals and associated software on our
network. We are able to open a LAT terminal window to any of our workstation
nodes but we are unable to get a LAT X session to work.
We have customized the terminal security to allow all LAT connections.
Trying to invoke a LAT X session from the VXT 2000 results in the following
message being displayed in the terminal manager window message area:
Host Does Not Support X Sessions
(The host is a VAX4000 Model 60 and does support X sessions)
Opening a LAT terminal window and logging into the server node, setting the
display variable as follows:
$ set display/create/node=LAT_###########/transport=lat
and then trying to create a decterm on the VXT as follows:
$ create/term=decterm/detach
Fails and gives the following error message:
dectermport failed to find language, XOpenDisplay("") returned NULL
%DECW-F-CANT-OPEN-DISPL Can't open display
The VXT 2000 is using its system defaults (ie. default font(s), language, ...)
except for the security options to allow all connections and options enabling
LAT protocol.
we have VT1200 windowing terminals and the above things were enough to allow
LAT X sessions.
VMS Version is 5.5-1
Running DECwindows/Motif of VAX4000 Model 60s
Please help.
| 2 |
657 | The Andrew Consortium
of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
is pleased to announce
AUIS 5.1.1 for AIX3.2
4/26/93
The Andrew User Interface System version 5.1 (our CDrom version) was
developed for AIX version 3.1 on the IBM RS/6000 and many other
platforms. To accomodate AIX version 3.2, we have created a patch to
the sources. The patch and accompanying instructions for its
application can be retrieved at no charge via anonymous-ftp from the
internet host emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.45.40) in the directory
./aixpatch. For those without internet access, a 3.5" diskette can be
ordered for $10 by sending, or faxing, a purchase order to the address
below.
The base 5.1 system can be ordered from us as a CDrom or ftp'ed from the
same host.
Note that this patch adds no additional functionality but simply allows
AUIS to compile under AIX3.2.
-----------
The Andrew User Interface System (AUIS) is a comprehensive environment
on top of X11 windows in which you can create, use, and mail multi-media
applications and documents. A major advantage of AUIS is the
capability to recursively embed objects. Thus, one can edit text that
not only contains multiple fonts, indentation, and other typography, but
also contains embedded raster images, spreadsheets, drawing editors,
equations, simple animations, and so on. These embedded objects can
themselves contain other objects, including text.
AUIS has three components:
The Andrew User Environment is an integrated and extensible set
of applications beginning with the ez text editor, a help
system, a system monitoring tool, an editor-based shell
interface, and other editors corresponding to the various
available types of objects.
The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a portable, object-oriented
user-interface toolkit that provides the architecture wherein
objects can be embedded in one-another. With the toolkit,
programmers can create new objects that can be embedded as
easily as those that come with the system.
The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides a multi-media interface
to mail and bulletin-boards. AMS supports several mail
management strategies and implements many advanced features
including authentication, return receipts, automatic sorting of
mail, vote collection and tabulation, enclosures, audit trails
of related messages, and subscription management. It also
provides a variety of interfaces that support ttys and
low-function personal computers in addition to high-function
workstations.
The current public release of Andrew, Version 5.1, includes support for
the new Internet MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) standards
for multipart, multimedia mail. A newer release, 5.2, for members of
the Andrew Consortium has numerous additional features including new
editors for drawings, images, fonts, and user preferences.
Remote Andrew Demo Service
You can try out Andrew from your own work station via the Remote Andrew
Demo Service. You need a host machine on the Internet running the X11
window system. You'll be able to compose multimedia documents, navigate
through the interactive Andrew Tour, and use the Andrew Message System
to browse through a few of CMU's four thousand bulletin boards and
newsgroups.
To get started with the Remote Andrew Demo service, simply run the
following command on your machine:
finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu
The service will give you further instructions.
More information about Andrew is available from:
Information Requests
Andrew Consortium
Carnegie Mellon University
Smith Hall 106
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
USA
phone: +1-412-268-6710
fax: +1-412-682-6938
info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu | 2 |
5,493 | Yes, it's easy to use. It's just like an ordinary controller.
You don't have to change the bios config.
It's transparent. It works with any drive. If you change the
drive you only need to change the bios config. as usual.
Yes, no problem.
That depends. You will get a little better performance
if you use smartdrive and buffers in addition. That's
because access to the card through the ISA bus is slower
than access to system RAM. I don't use smartdrive myself,
but I have a few buffers.
| 2 |
136 | Is it possible to get an xterm scrollbar to come out on the right
side instead of the left?
Ron Shenk
| 2 |
2,004 | A great many computer programmers read "Dr. Dobb's Journal". In a recent
issue, there was a paragraph in an article that pained me greatly to read. It
"There's nothing wrong if Microsoft setting the standards for the computer
industry. The industry NEEDS an IBM for the 90's."
Where has the hacker ethic gone? Not the "cracker" ethic, which is something
entirely different and bad, but the hacker ethic, which tells us to value the
free distribution of information and yield to the hands-on imperative? Why is
it that people and corporations like Bill Gates, IBM, and Intel are able to
have a virtual dead lock on the computer industry? Why is it that, if a person
like myself posts messages to Usenet on how to get into the little nooks,
crannies, and idiosyncrasies of a computer system, they are not given any
useful information by those who know, just a badmouthing? (or are completely
ignored) Why is it that people like Steve Jobs have to abandon their efforts to
make truly innovative products? I ask those of you who call yourselves
hackers, why is this? And further, how can you let it go on? It is a fact
that the computer industry has changed the world, and shall continue to do so
for a long time to come. It has allowed the propagation of information in a
volume unheard of even twenty years ago, and has made this world even smaller
than it was before. I shudder to think what that world will be like if the
corporations are allowed to have their way, perpetuating more drivel like the
286, Windows, and the IBM product line on the computer-using public.
That is not to say I am against business per se; people who profit off of
innovative, intelligent, creative designs do not bother me. In fact, I applaud
it; that is the American way. But those who manage to sell kludgy, uncreative
systems to the public, and profit off of them, are the ones who are the
problem. And, unfortunately, because they have enough money to make up for
blunt stupidity, they can keep doing it for a very long time.
I put it to you thus: Where HAS the hacker ethic gone? If it still exists,
where? And, if it DOES exist, why are those who call themselves "hackers"
allowing this to perpetuate itself? Why are they not creating new, innovative,
interesting ideas to stop the SOS from maintaining its choke hold on the
computer industry?
I await with interest what will probably be a resounding silence. | 2 |
4,521 | Article #61175 (61302 is last):
From: qwerty@tunisia.ssc.gov (Kris Schludermann)
Subject: HELP:IDE Drive installation problems
Date: Thu Apr 22 12:11:58 1993
I'm having trouble with installing a second IDE drive on a Promise IDE caching
controller. The first drive is a conner 3204 and works fine. The second drive
is a conner 30174, it is currently unjumpered to be the slave drive. The
problem is the slave drive is recognized but is reported back as having no
free space. Disabling cache has made no effect. What else should I check for?
krispy
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
Krispy,
Lets start with what Promise controller that you have. Ther are only
about 4 or 6 of them made. The one that I have the DC-99m needs
nothing done but install it as stated. As to the 2th. hd you do know
about running FDISK on it and partisitions and then formatting it
after your finished with the fdisk operation right!....Sam | 2 |
2,105 |
Kaveh,
all of the data included with in the Cyberware_demo is
non-proprietary, use it as you like. I just ask that you give us
credit if you use it in a research paper/project and send us the
results.
thanks,
geo
Cyberware
--
george dabrowski
Cyberware Labs | 2 |
3,962 | I am just beginning to try using the Athena toolkit and am having some problems
getting started. I think that some files are missing on the system, but there is
the possibility that they are just in a different directory. When I try to link
my program it can't find XtInitailize, XtRealizeWidget, XtMainLoop,
XtCreateManagedWidget, or commandWidgetClass. I've included Intrinsic.h and
Command.h. I also had a problem on compile with XtNcallback but replaced that with
a NULL in order to compile and see if there were any other problems. I haven't
used a toolkit before and this is simply an example I got from the manuel. Can
someone tell me where I might look for these calls, that is, in what file not what
directory they are supposed to be under because the system manager doesn't believe
in standard directories and generally does things his own way. (I am using UNIX)
Thank you for your assistance. | 2 |
6,156 | 2 | |
2,399 | Hello,
the subject line says it all: I'm looking for a TGA file viewer for the ATI
Ultra + card. It should support the true color modes, of course.
If someone knows where to find one via FTP, please let me know.
thanx | 2 |
6,383 |
yes
yes, seen glue-on, tape-on, clip-on, one-inch square and larger.
my favorite is the 3.5 inch plastic U.S.Toyo fan I use just plopped
down on top of the chip during open-case service.
depends on the mounting
only if the manufacturer was smart
only if it goes out - got that "blanket" effect which doesn't help chip life
longer system life makes good economic sense to me
yes - well, not the melted cheese
lets you touch the surface - the "rule of thumb" for cooling solid-state
the "attached" fans look slick and work well but I'm bothered by the potential
loss of cooling if the fan goes out. at least with the power supply fan you
can reach back there every few days and feel the fan blowing.
I prefer to put a stock fan off the drive brackets or front panel
to blow air across the cpu - depends a lot on case and board layout, though.
on-chip fans from Fry's Electronics in the SF Bay Area are about 30.00. I
get the stock power supply fans for about 11.00. | 2 |
2,431 |
- They invented the "how to make money on others ideas".
- They made money.
- They weren't in the air at the wrong time...
Admit it BillG is a damn smart guy. How many out there can make money on
almost useless products...Useless even if you look at the time Dos were
written..it stinked already then..
If I could choose one marketing guy in the world, I think I would choose
him. He's so good that almost everyone hates him, but they still use his
stuff...
ThomasEZ.
' I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you. ' | 2 |
6,744 | Hi,
I use a PC with a screen access program (IBM Screen Reader) and a
speech synthesizer. (Accent SA).
I would like to find out about screen access programs for the windows
platform. I heard that were a couple of them out now under beta
testing, I would like to find out addresses/prices etc.
Thanks,
--Raman | 2 |
31 | A while back (i.e., several months) someone posted a method for allowing
a user to choose (via XMenu and something else??) a window manager
interactively at X startup time. Could the original poster (or anyone
else) please Email a copy of the method to me, as I have lost the
original posting? Thanks.
______________________________________________________________________________
Henry Stilmack )
Computing Systems Manager ) Perform random kindnesses
UK/Netherlands/Canada Joint Astronomy Centre ) and senseless acts of beauty
660 N. A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 )
hps@jach.Hawaii.Edu 808-969-6530 ) | 2 |
4,752 | I'm afriad that's not true. The monitor problem seems to occur whenever
the 15" Mag monitor is put into 1024x768 mode. I'm running OS/2 at 1024 and
the same symptoms appear.
It does not seem like a video card problem as the Cirrus Logic 5426 chip and
the ATI GUP seem to cause these problems... two VERY different cards. | 2 |
3,709 |
Whatever you do, don't FTP to the sites listed in my sig...
You won't like what you find...really. I beg you NOT to GO there!
PLEASE!
...e
| 2 |
791 | I heard that there is a VESA driver for the XGA-2 card available on
compuserve. I just got this card, and I am wondering if this driver is
available on a FTP site anywhere. My news service has beeen erratic lately so
please E-Mail me at:
walsh@stolaf.edu
Thanks in advance.
| 2 |
3,892 | When attempting to connect to an SGI Indigo from a PC clone using
a commercial X windows emulation package, the X package hangs in
a pre-login X screen mode. The login box won't display. Using
the package in 'telnet' mode, I can logon to the SGI, and run any
none graphic type things. On the PC I get an error:
"Read error 0 on socket 1" (raw socket error)
On the SGI, in xdm-errors:
I get a termination error when I kill the stalled screen on the PC
On the SGI, in SYSLOG:
<date><time><SGI> xdm[#]:Hung in XOpenDisplay(<remote>:0, aborting
" " :server open failed for <remote>:0, giving up
I have all access control disabled (I believe, SYSLOG message confirms
this when I login on the SGI). I believe I have the SGI set up properly
as described in the X ADm. book by O'Rielly....
The X emul package tech support hasn't been able to solve the problem.
So what I'm looking for is some suggestions on where to look for problems,
and possible tests to run to narrow down the questions.
Thanks | 2 |
1,152 | I have an internal modem that I configure as COM4 with IRQ 3, but
when I insert that card into my DOS 5.02 PC, it shows up
as COM3, with IRQ3 and COM4's address (2E8)!
When I get into debug, and dump the data at 40:0, it shows
the address 2E8 as belonging to COM3 - even though the modem
should be at COM4.
Now, I know the modem is working correctly since I have tested
it in a different PC - and it shows up correctly as COM4, 2E8, IRQ3.
To make it work in the DOS 5.02 PC, I have to configure the
modem as COM3, 2E8, IRQ3---but though I have a comm program that
allows that, the FAX program that came with the modem does not work.
Anyway, I would like the computer to display the modem as it is set,
as COM4...
I did run a few diagnostic programs, and they did not help at all:
a few displayed the modem as COM4, and others displayed it as
being COM3.
I am not using Windows, this is just a DOS problem...Any help
or pointers appreciated....
For various reasons, I must have this modem work at COM4, thus
switching COM ports is not an answer...
(Last time I posted this, I did not get any DOS specific answer,
this time I have included all the specific information....please help!)
-----
Avinash Chopde
avinash@acm.org | 2 |
5,170 | I am running windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. The sound card I have
is the ATI Stereo F/X-CD sound card which claims Adlib and Soundblaster
compatibility.
Using Windows MediaPlayer, I can play the midi files that came with
my sound card. However, I can't play any of the midi files that belong
to the WinJammer midi editor that I ftp'd from cica. I also can't
play any midi files I generate with muzika (also from cica). When I
try to play the files, a dialog box pops up saying that the music
may not play right, and it has a checkbox asking me if i wish to disable
this message in the future.
Is this normal, or do I have something set wrong? I would really like
to be able to write music on muzika and have my computer play it.
I also ftp'd the game dare2dream for windows (from cica) and its music
won't play either - I get the same dialog box.
The MIDI Mappers that I have are ATI Ext MIDI, ATI OPL3 MIDI, and Vanilla.
I have tried using all three.
Any help, suggestions, shoulders to cry on, etc. would be appreciated
very much.
John P. | 2 |
6,281 | Build 59 causes 2 exceptions when I exit Windows. In fact, I have had
this happen on all builds after 44, which shipped with my Gateway
system. Am I doing something wrong, or is this problem commonly
overlooked? | 2 |
1,073 | The subject says it all. I bought Adobe Type Manager and find it completely
useless. I ftped some atm fonts and couldn't install them. What's the use?
Are you supposed to be able to convert ATM fonts to Truetype?
If there's anyone out there who has this program and actually finds it
useful, enlighten me! | 2 |
481 | Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet, yet I cannot think
of even *ONE* computing concept that they innovated and brought to market
before anyone else. Xerox-PARC/Apple, Osborne, NeXT, GNU and others have
been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing. What has
microsoft done to be a technological leader? I posted this question before,
but I got nary a reply. I make the challenge now to anyone who can come up
with something-especially Microsoft employees. I get no response this time,
I guess it pretty much assures me that there is none--which is what I
suspect anyway. | 2 |
6,030 |
As far as I know, there is no way to get around the BIOS password except by
shorting out the power supply to the CMOS memory, thereby erasing it. This
will remove the password, but it will also destroy all the previous BIOS
settings, so then you'll have to go and set them all up again. On my 386,
there is a jumper on the motherboard which is provided for the purpose of
shorting the battery. You just short this jumper briefly, and it interrupts
power to the CMOS long enough to erase it. I would imagine there is
something like this on your board too.
In the future, I would suggest that YOU set the password, and leave it on
"Setup" only. That way, no-one else can go and reset it or set it to "
Always" unless they know what password you used. They had to do this over
here too when they got a bunch of new 386's, for just the same reason.
-Dale | 2 |
3,718 |
I'm using DRDOS 6.0 with SuperStor for nearly 2 years now, and I'm wondering, if
MSDOS 6.0 could keep up with it at last. Is there anybody who tried out both?
What about this Double-Disk ? (had lots of problems with SStor too.)
How much memory do you get? (I've got 616K with EMM and SStor)
What about the on-line help (Really great in DRDOS)
Any help appreciated.
| 2 |
1,468 | ctwomey@vms.eurokom.ie (Colum Twomey) comments:
Casady & Greene seems to be notoriously slow about responding, as
I've heard from others who have contacted them. They may not reply
via fax, but via snail mail. Give them time, or contact them again.
Rhia
| 2 |
2,816 | RFD
Request For Discussion
for the
OPEN TELEMATIC GROUP
OTG
I have proposed the forming of a consortium/task force for the
promotion of NAPLPS/JPEG, FIF to openly discuss ways, method,
procedures,algorythms, applications, implementation, extensions of
NAPLPS/JPEG standards. These standards should facilitate the creation
of REAL_TIME Online applications that make use of Voice, Video,
Telecommuting, HiRes graphics, Conferencing, Distant Learning, Online
order entry, Fax,in addition these dicussion would assist all to
better understand how SGML, CALS, ODA, MIME, OODBMS, JPEG, MPEG,
FRACTALS, SQL, CDrom, cdromXA, Kodak PhotoCD, TCL, V.FAST, and
EIA/TIA562, can best be incorporated and implemented to develop
TELEMATIC/Multimedia applications.
We want to be able to support DOS, UNIX, MAC, WINDOWS, NT, OS/2
platforms. It is our hope that individuals, developers, corporations,
Universities, R & D labs would join in in supporting such an endeavor.
This would be a NOT_FOR_PROFIT group with bylaws and charter. Already
many corporations have decided to support OTG (Open TELEMATIC Group) so
do not delay joining if you are a developer
An RFD has been posted to form a usenet newsgroup and a FAQ will soon
be be composed to start promulgating what is known on the subject. If
you would like to be added to the maillist send email or mail to the
address below.
This group would publish an electronic quarterly NAPLPS/JPEG
newsletter as well as a hardcopy version. We urge all who wants to
see CMCs HiRes based applications & the NAPLPS/JPEG G R O W, decide to
join and mutually benefit from this NOT-FOR_PROFIT endeavor.
NOTE: Telematic has been defined by Mr. James Martin as the marriage
of Voice, Video, Hi-res Graphics, Fax, IVR, Music over telephone
lines/LAN.
If you would like to get involve write to me at:
IMG Inter-Multimedia Group| Internet: epimntl@world.std.com
P.O. Box 95901 | ed.pimentel@gisatl.fidonet.org
Atlanta, Georgia, US | CIS : 70611,3703
| FidoNet : 1:133/407
| BBS : +1-404-985-1198 zyxel 14.4k | 2 |
2,578 | I use a Nanao 20" Multisync and switch between a Windows 1024x768 and
a Sparc 1+ display. Works quite well at these resolutions.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael C. Busby | Unix System Support
System Engineer, Sr. | Design Environment/Automation
Compaq Computer Corporation | Internet: mcb@compaq.com
P.O. Box 692000 m/s 050701 | Uunet: uunet!cpqhou!michaelb
Houston, Texas, USA 77269-2000 | Phone: 713-374-5638 | 2 |
7,154 | I've written an application for SparcStation 2 GX+, under OpenWindows 3.0.
The application uses XView stuff to create my window, and the SUN XGL
graphics library for rendering into the Canvas.
The application does real-time 2-D animation, but it does not update the
the display fast enough.
I'm using notify_set_itimer (XView call) to periodically kick off my
update routine, and it's not happening fast enough. I want it to
update 25 times / second. It's only doing about 11. Also, it appears to
be compute bound, because if I run anything else while my appplication is
up, the update rate slows down even more. | 2 |
1,506 | I need info regarding a miniscribe 3.5" half-height drive. There is a
sticker on it with the following,
MODEL HDA PCBA UNIQUE TDA
8425F 09AA 03AB 03AA -
But the sticker on the biggest chip on the MFM interface has this,
MODEL PCBA TDA
FXX 03AB
What is the spec of the drive (# of cyl, heads, etc)?
How fast is this drive? Can I use it as a RLL drive?
I also have a SCSI interface that seems to match all the connectors
for this drive. It has this description,
MODEL PCBA E-P TDA
AXX 01A 29A
Can I replace the MFM interface by the SCSI interface and use the drive
as a SCSI drive? What would the drive size be? There is a set of jumpers
on the SCSI interface with "6SEL" besides it. What is the use of it? | 2 |
407 | A friend of mine uses Windows 3.1 to do most of her work.
Unfortunately, she has very bad eyesight, and we haven't
been able to figure out how to change the default font
used by the system and application menus, or the font used
by the Help program (what use is hypertext if you can't
read it?) to make it legible to her.
If anyone knows how to increase the size of these fonts,
of any software package that makes Windows more accessible
to visually handicapped people, please let me know. | 2 |
4,558 | Ok, this might seem a bit odd.
How do check the state of (dip)switches on the mother board of a IBM XT
WITHOUT using the BIOS.
/Thanx | 2 |
887 | I have been using WinQVT/Net 2.81 under Win3.1 (dos 5.0) for quite
sometime without any problem. I recently installed DOS 6.0 on my 386-40 PC
and I cannot run WinQVT/Net any more. I keep getting "Packet received for
invalid port-reset sent" messages on the console window. I can't
get more than 1 telnet window and can't use ftp!!!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | 2 |
5,688 | 2 | |
2,584 | Hello,
i'm looking for a Driver for an IBM 3852-2 Color Ink Jet Printer.
Any pointers are welcome.
thanks in advance
Ralf
| 2 |
5,620 |
G'day Brian,
I'll be blunt about this. The ONLY reasonable explanation of Roberts
algorithm is in
Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics
Rogers
McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1985
Go to the library and look at this.
There is also a somewhat muddled explanation in the first edition
of Newman and Sproull.
The algorithm described in PECG runs in near linear time.
Luck, | 2 |
335 | Does anyone else make low radiation emission monitors besides NEC?
How do they compare to NECs (quality and emission-wise)?
TIA,
Les
| 2 |
2,295 | I am looking for a small utility that will convert a Microsoft Video (AVI)
file to an Autodesk Animator Pro (FLC) file. Since AVIs also contain sound,
it would be nice if this utility also stored the sound track as a WAV or VOC
file. Currently I'm accomplishing this by saving the AVI as multiple DIBs
using Video for Windows, then converting each DIB to a GIF, then loading the
GIFs into Animator. For the sound, I load the original AVI into WavEdit and
save it as a seperate WAV file. This requires too many steps to be productive.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks
Don
| 2 |
2,488 | Due to a number of bugs in GKS4.1 under SUNOS 4.1.3, I installed
patches 100533-15 and 100755-01. Patch 100533-15 appears to
work fine and has fixed a number of problems. Patch 100755-01,
however, which is required to fix a number of other annoying
bugs, breaks with our applications.
Is there a more recent revision of patch 10075?
Any other ideas? | 2 |
1,886 |
There is a review of 3DO in the latest "wired" magazine. You may just want
to take a trip to the local bookstore and check it out (there's some cool pics
too).
(I haven't read it yet, or I'd tell you more.. :-) | 2 |
5,109 | This discussion on viewing .ps files undex X11 seems rather interesting
but I fail to understand the reason it is not contained in 2 at most
newsgroups.
I am subscribed to comp.text.interleaf and I could care less about
.ps viewing under X11. I am sure that members of this group interested in
the topic can followup by looking at other newsgroups.
Could you please remove the comp.text.interleaf from your distribution?
Just as a nettish sort of courtesy.
Best regards.
--
Leo J Irakliotis irakliot@longs.lance.colostate.edu | 2 |
6,938 | From article <1993May1.092058.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, by pstlb@aurora.alaska.edu:
Since this was posted on comp.ai, I assume there is an AI angle to this. Hacking is
what AI students do when they're really supposed to be doing something else, e.g.
thesis research & write up, getting their supervisors' pet programs to run properly,
etc. No-one gets much glory for hacking, and no-one gets any money out of it.
Producing good free software requires an enormous investment of time & resources that
not many people can, or want to, afford - particularly during a recession.
In addition, over the last 10 years, I think there has been a de-emphasis on producing
running programs in AI research, and a greater emphasis on more formal approaches to
problem-solving. Students have been proving theorems instead of writing programs.
At a conference a year or two ago, Johann de Kleer suggested that everyone should
'Get back to the keyboard' and write more programs that demonstrate their ideas -
and I have to say I'm inclined to agree.
(I don't claim to be a superhacker, but I don't think that invalidates my remarks.
And I'm sure this isn't the whole story.)
| 2 |
374 | Yesterday, a friend of mine got a new driver for his card that more
than doubled the speed... Naturally, besides being a tad jealous (same
machine -- different cards), it got me thinking... What if I am using a slow
driver? Wouldn't that be _horrible_ ? :) So netlanders, I need samples of
your collective experience (sic) -- Do you proud owners of a Trident 8900C
video card w/ 1MB VRAM have tried out more than one driver fro MS Win 3.1
which? which is the fastest? Not to be selfish, and to give you a motive
for responding, I promise I am going to collect all the answers, and the
actual drivers (provided u give me a site to get it from or uuencode&mail)
get the WinMarks using PC Magazine`s WinBENCH and... post the results here...
I am interested in SVGA drivers only (plain VGA users should run the Win
driver, or this is what I 've heard -- dont flame me!) Particularly
800x600x16 and/or 800x600x256 (that should cover the majority of SVGA users)
Well, what are you waiting for? hit that r or f or whatever...
All input welcome -- so are money and Sun SPARCstations...
Thanx in advance...
| 2 |
138 | Could someone please tell me what the dip switches on the
back of the AST Hot Shot 286 accellerator card do? I
recently acquired the card and did not get any docs.
any information will be appreciated.
-Rob
--
Robert M. Bultman |
Speed Scientific School |
University of Louisville |
Internet: rmbult01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu | | 2 |
7,337 | I was wondering if anyone has ever seen/heard of a utility that converts
any type of image format (gif,tiff,pcx,bmp,jpeg,etc.) to an ascii
representation. I have seen some very sophiticated art in ascii format, but
never was I able to find the author or any program that may have converted
the data from a picture format.
Any help or leads would be great. Thanks in advance.
Danny Dunlavy | 2 |
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