Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> Then there were ground-breaking AF coverdisks like Imagine 2, Real3D, 
>>
>> Ugh, not Real3D!
> 
> Mmm, interesting. I never had any problems with it.

Oops, my bad. I was thinking of "Extreme 3D," by Macromedia. That's the 
one. It's horrible. I don't think I've ever crashed a program so many times!

> Now Imagine 3D was another matter. You had to add objects to the scene 
> in a certain order (!!) in order for them to reflect. As in, the 
> reflective objects had to be added last. Any object added after the 
> reflective one would cast no reflections. God only knows what happens if 
> you want recursive reflections...

I'm glad there are so many choices these days. I don't ever want to 
resort to using faked raytracing effects, unless of course, I'm making a 
video game or something.

>> Thank goodness for the open-source movement!
> 
> Yeah - I'm still puzzled by all that. The Amiga had a strong "shareware" 
> scene, but I'm puzzled by this sudden new craze of giving away 
> fully-supported commercial-grade software (sometimes that *was* 
> commercial!) for free. It suddenly seems to be the "trendy" thing to do, 
> and I'm not really sure how that happened.
> 
> Not that I'm complaining about it mind you!

When the result is something like what Blender has become, who can 
complain? Oh yeah, those people who hate Blender's interface; they 
complain. I don't think it's that horrible...

> Actually, if anybody knows of a good freeware software synthesizer and 
> sequencer that's easy to set up (ideally zero-install) and runs on 
> Windoze, I'd be interested. Sometimes when you're using a strange PC, 
> it's nice to be able to just throw out a few bars of music using only 
> what you have on your USB stick...

Have you tried searching for browser-based apps in that category? It's a 
slim chance you'll find one, but it's worth trying.

Sam

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