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Re: Painter 3 Demo works under E/L !!!!



>>>>> "Phil" == Philipp Knirsch <phil@chive.mpik-tueb.mpg.de> writes:

    Phil> Hi folks...  As ARDI did quite a lot of work on Executor in
    Phil> the last couple of weeks i thought i'd try out Fractal
    Phil> Design Painter 3.0 Demo again.  The last time i tried it
    Phil> somehow didn't get it quite right.  But after i got the
    Phil> 6.5MB hqx file today, unstuffed and installed it it just
    Phil> worked!!!

Yay.

    Phil> I tried some of the effects, the nozzles etc.  It was still
    Phil> not a runner (like on a Powermac), but it was nearly usable
    Phil> on my 486DX2/80...

How do you think it will run on a 200 MHz Pentium Pro (i.e. P6)?

    Phil> But i still have one problem: Neither with the svgalib
    Phil> version nor with the dos-version can i get more than 8bit
    Phil> color to work. Now i wonder, as my card (a ET4000W32 with
    Phil> 1MB) can use 24bit with univbe testprograms under dos and
    Phil> same und svgalib. I mean, even 16 bit would be major cool
    Phil> with painter! :) So if someone knows how to get more colors
    Phil> out of either the dos or the svgalib version with my card
    Phil> PLEASE tell me.  I didn't find an answer to my question in
    Phil> the FAQ, so....

Greater than 8 bpp support is currently not implemented.  It is on the
cusp of the feature cutoff for 2.0.  Currently the plan is to *not*
support it in 2.0, but if Cotton or Mat finishes all the critical/high
problem reports and I'm still plugging away on fixing mine, then
there's a chance that such support would be added while I finish my
work.

If it doesn't make it into 2.0, it will probably make it into an
experimental release that would appear within a month or two after 2.0
ships.

    Phil> Read ya, Phil

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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