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You're kidding right? That's not a bad machine to be doing 2D graphics on, hell the original Antares schematics were probably done on my old 433 and I think that only had 128mb RAM!
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Kids today! Wouldn't know a slow computer if it landed on their heads! Sean, try using a tape loading Sinclair ZX-81 or the Atari ST, THOSE are slow by today's standards, while a 746 is just a few years behind the times.
Shik
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My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 color Computer with Extended 32K Basic memory. We had a cassette tape player hooked up to it to play games & programs , & an old "dial the number, listen for tone, & then slam it into the cups" type modem that ran at the then amazing speed of 300 baud.
Which makes me want to share something I wrote on my LJ 2 weeks ago:
In 1985, two horny teenagers made a woman using a Memotech MTX512 computer with attached FDX system, utilizing a massive 64 KB of memory & a crappy little Z80A microprocessor. Now, granted they had to tap into a military installation to get the extra processing power they needed to fuel their hoochie-birthing dreams, but military tech wasn't that far in advance of civilian tech at the time.
Right now, I'm writing this on a computer that in modern terms is positively ancient. It's 6 years old. It's got the maximum memory of 1.5 GB. Its processor speed is only 800MHz, although there are upgrades available to bring it to a top of 1.5 GHz. It's got a modern OS & a user interface leaps & bounds over that of the Memotech used so long ago.
And yet.
And yet.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that despite all this technological advancement, I am still unable to build & infuse life into a woman. If any OS could do it, you KNOW it would be OS X. (Maybe Linux, too, but I'm not versed so well in that one.) What I'm trying to say here is that there's a market out there, ripe for the plucking. Now, I'm not doubting Steve Jobs' visionary talents, but sometimes I think he needs a little nudge at times.
iSlut.
'S all I'm sayin', yo.
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quote:Originally posted by Shik: ...cassette tape player...
I remember having one of them on my old Amstrad, it squeaked and squealed for 10 minutes and then you got to play Dizzy, James pond, or How to be a complete bastard.
As for your PC specs, I started doing 2D and 3D stuff on an old 133 MHz pentium, with a whopping 144MB of RAM. Using Paint Shop Pro and some free 3D app I got off of a Computer Arts magazine.
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Ok, now this is starting to turn into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch for the pacman generation! And since Sean is just a wee babby, probably doesn't even know who the four Yorkshiremen are. If such is the case, watch this, or if you prefer, this.
Anyway, how's that mesh coming?
Oh and Dizzy rocked, though I never could finish Spellbound Dizzy.
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Well, he doesn't even need commercial software to get started. For 2D raster, there's GIMP (which I use), or Inkscape for 2D vector stuff. On the 3D side, there's Blender or Sketchup.
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True.
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How good is GIMP on PC's? I was considereing it for a while, but never got round to downloading it.
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I've got no problems with it. And it's a lot easier to install now that they got rid of the separate GTK install requirement (just the one install file now).
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I didn't know my computer was that good. I thought that software like that would'nt work because Of the lack of space on the hard drive. Well, I know very little about computers, so I'll go with you guy's on this.
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