Re: REQ: Second Sight demos

[pfaiffer@MBnet.MB.CA (Mike Pfaiffer)]

philip@labtam.OZ.AU (Philip Stephens) writes:

>Mike Pfaiffer writes:

>>Just a request for those working on software for the Second Sight 
>>card. Would any of you have something which could pass for a demo?

>  Hmmmm...well, my Doom-like rendering engine is working, and I guess it
>could be used as a demo, although it currently takes 10 seconds to
>render a frame since it is still mostly written in C.  Also, right now
>it's only using 256 colours, which makes the texture maps look a bit
>yucky.  I should be able to recompile it to use 32K colours, however,
>which would look much nicer.

	Fantastic! As long as it doesn't crash both of us can point to it 
as a work in development.

>  My only problem is I don't have a decent communications program to
>upload the source onto a newsgroup or FTP site.  My modem link to
>work is pretty crappy quality-wise, meaning the X-Modem protocol that
>TelCom uses screws up most of the time.  So currently my source is
>stuck on my hard drive :-(  It's a pretty stupid situation, considering
>that I got my original Unix source downloaded onto my GS using Y-Modem
>in the first place!  Bah!

	I remember the days when I had to do ASCII uploads to a 370 clone 
just to do homework at University. Even at 300 baud it was better than 
braving -40 degree weather. The programs worked first time after I 
corrected the line noise which made its way into the file. ;-)

>  Has anyone successfully used sb or sz on GNO/ME piped through the modem
>port after dialing in using TelCom and exiting that program?  I tried doing
>this once via the instructions in the sb/sz man page, but couldn't get it
>to work.  It's very frustrating to be able to download but not upload!

	Sorry. GNO/ME is on my shopping list once I make some cash. I 
don't suppose Jawaid has a demo of this for the Second Sight... ;-)

				Later
				Mike





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