[rescue] Flying Pigs - OT WIN2K speed

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Sep 8 15:45:00 CDT 2001


On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:02:14PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I used to use a sbus SunPC board to run 3D Studio r4 under Solaris
> > 2.something, possible 3.  It was fun.  Nobody else wanted to try
> > it.  Then, I just opened the .3ds files into WTK and converted them to the
> > native format (forget what it was now, but it was extremely simple) and
> > wrote code to add them into the virtual world (usually someone elses week
> > attempt at a game) which ran with acceleration from a ZX board.
> 
> You're a college student, you have TIME for things like this. 8-)

Actually, I was a highschool freshman at the time.  Then I really had a
lot of time on my hands.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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