>> 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!

Ah, OK. Not heard of that one...

>> 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.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Imagine 3D was quite a nice program. Just don't 
expect reflection or refraction to work properly! Everything else works 
though...

>> 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.

Yeah, or maybe I just need to sit down and write something in Java... ;-)

[I'd use Haskell, but I can't get the bindings for libSDL to work. At 
least, not on Windoze. Works fine on Linux...]

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