Subject: Re: 3.0 Amiga is Here!
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 07:07:15 -0600
From: Steve Koren <koren@hpfcogv.fc.hp.com>

> o Imagine 3.0, like 2.9 and 2.0, doesn't work with VMM40, the freeware
>   virtual memory system.  Projects now load, but objects go crazy, drawing
>   lines all over the place, like a spiderweb made by a caffeine-crazed
>   spider.  If anyone else finds that VMM40 works for them, please let

I don't have 3.0 (yet :-) - wanted to hold off placing my order until it
was for real), but I have used Imagine 2.0 with VMM040, and it has
worked flawlessly a large number of times.  I've rendered some projects
which required 24+ Mb in my paltry 16 Mb of RAM.  Worked great for both
rendering and modeling (although I hit the VM more when rendering since
then you've got a lot more data space allocated for bitmaps and octrees
and whatnot).  Sure you have a recent version of VMM040?  This one might
be some sort of setup problem instead of an Imagine problem.  Or could
it be that you're loading old 2.0 projects which don't work with 3.0?
I've had _great_ luck using VMM040 with both Imagine and Vertex.

> o On a positive note, Imagine 3.0 uses real requesters for all of its
>   "are you sure?" kinds of requesters.  This is great because now ARQ
>   can patch them with screen-centered requesters.

Sounds good!  (I use ARQ too).

> >NO ASL SCREEN/FILE REQUESTERS!

> o This is my biggest disappointment.  I'm back to editing the binary to get
>   the screen size I want.  And we're stuck with the very limited file

Agreed - major mega-bummer.  I wasn't expecting screen mode support, but
I *was* under the impression that we'd have the ASL file requester in
3.0.  Well, we can hope for 3.1 or whatever comes next.  I did send
Impulse some example code for the ASL screenmode requester - here's
hoping it'll find its way into 3.1 along with a real ASL file requester.
(No offense intended, Impulse, but your default file requester stinks!
You can't resize it, its not font sensitive, it doesn't have a "pattern"
gadget, you can't use name completion or otherwise use it from the
keyboard, and you can't replace it with something else, all of which the
ASL requester does).

On the topic of screenmodes, has anyone figured out the proper place to
patch the 3.0 binary to change the resolution?  I've a version of
Imagine 2.0 patched for 900x630, and one for 1024x768, and I'd hate to
loose the extra resolution going to 3.0.

  - steve


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