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From: Vance Schowalter <[e-mail]>
To: Scot Perry <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LW 4.0 Distributors
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On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Scot Perry wrote:

>  Can anybody provide some distributors that Lightwave is available through,
> who has the best price and availability?
> >
> >Per your request:
> I carry lightwave for the PC and would be happy to sell you a copy if your
> interested I can also get lightwave for the Amiga although we are regretably
> not very knowlegeable on that platform.  As far as your question on which
> platform you'll find lightwave on a pentium to be much faster than the
> current crop of Amigas but in the Amigas favor you have access to a greater
> assortment of add ons macros plugins etc. I,m sure you will see this change
> fast 3 months or so my guess but the fact remains there is more for the
> Amiga now. Also the current release of ligtwave for the PC is a prerelease,
> final version due out soon. The biggest problem with prerelease in my
> opinion no modeler macros, or import module both will be in final release
> which will be a free upgrade.
>
> Now that I've given you an argument for the Amiga let me defend the PC.
> Lightwave on a PC in windows NT is fast even faster on a Alpha processor PC
> and as your intel comment stated the PC is getting faster every day. On the
> Amiga side I hear things are in the works for new Amigas but that will
> probably be a year in coming at the least the sale of commodore was only
> recently finalized to my knowledge. And as time is money you see alot of
> people going to Pentiums to speed their processing now. As far as software
> goes the software companies follow the money if everyone is buying PC's
> thats the growth market and they will write the software for that platform.
> When I spoke to one software producer for Lightwave plugins he described the
> Amiga market as a desert (no one is buying) and is banking his future on the
> success of Lightwave on the PC.

Actually, that argument read as more for add-ons than the merits of the
Amiga. Oh well.

As for new Amigas, a new version of the Amiga 4000T will be available in
North America in September. This Amiga will be available in either 040 or
060 configurations, depending on what the user orders. The same company
that is producing the first Amiga 68060 card is also reported to be
working on a quad-68060-multi-processor card which will make it many
times faster than any Pentium. The basic 68060/50mhz is almost the speed
of the Pentium, and faster clockspeeds will put it toe-to-toe. The A4000T
also has, as one of many advantages over a PC, 2 video slots.

It is likely the RISC Amigas that you are referring to as being over a
year away from release. The Amiga OS will also be developed for multiple
platforms so PC users can enjoy a 'better' OS for multi-media (read
video). *8^)

Also, the Amiga technology is now under liberal licensing to 3rd party
developers, so users no longer have to rely on one company for Amigas.
There is already one company which has a RISC-based Amiga clone called
Draco, which is said to run most Amiga applications without a problem.
The Draco also puts out true colour 24bit.
Other Amiga clones (ie. laptops) are being worked on now.

>
> As for Newteks policy I believe their intent is to discourage mail order so
> that their local dealers can support customers face to face.  This takes
> some customer support burden off them and usually leads to happy customers
> when the local dealer can answer your problems on a face to face basis. Also
> Lightwave is a high end complex product with a healthy learning curve a
> product usually best handled by local dealer support. But you can't always
> find a local dealer so I'd be happy to help you my prices follow. Call or
> E-mail me if you have any questions I'll help as best I can.
>
> Lightwave 4.0 PC pre-Release                    $795.00
>
> Current Plugins and support programs
>         Fibre Factory (hair raising effects)    $139.95
>         Impact (Newtonian Physics for Lightwave)$395.00
>
> Available object libraries
>         Lightrom vol I CD                       $ 34.95
>         Lightrom vol II CD                      $ 34.95
>         Dedicated digital imagery Disks
>                 Medical/Anatomy                 $ 92.00
>                 Auto's and vehicles             $ 65.00
>                 Household objects               $ 52.00
>                 Space essentials                $ 65.00
>                 City Builder                    $ 82.00
>
> Training Materials
>         Desktop Images Videos
>                 3D Essentials                   $ 45.00
>                 3D surfaces & Textures          $ 45.00
>                 displacement mapping & Bones    $ 45.00
>                 3D Camera & Lighting Techniques $ 45.00
>                 Modeler 2 videos                $ 85.00
>                 Pro Flying Logo Techniques      $ 45.00
>
>                 Coming soon early August
>                 Pyrotechniques                  $ 45.00
>                 Space Craft Modeling            $ 45.00
>                 Space Craft Surfacing           $ 45.00
>
> All the above are PC products or PC compatible the video tapes are based on
> the Amiga version but is almost identical to PC version in functionality.
>
> If anyone else has knowledge of current PC compatible Lightwave products
> please drop a line with info were always looking for new products.
>
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