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Nolita#
Thanks hboy. I didn't even think of that because normally I use pm's to work things out with people I've had misunderstandings with. You know, how without tone of voice, and facial expressions(beyond emoticons) people sometimes think you're saying one thing when you're saying something totally different.

Your advice is really good.
hboy#
i know pretty much what you mean, thats why I prefer voice communication instead of typing 🙂
^..^#
But sometimes it's better to write. At least for all people whose native language isn't english; like me: I'm sometimes searching for a certain word or term and mostly have to look it up. So if i write a post i've got some time bonus before i have to answer.
(What probably doesn't improve my lousy grammar 😉 )
MaTTFURY#
hey nolita, thats my job didn't you hear me in (one of theses threads) i was gonna do it up as soon he releases the "Final" version... so dont worry...
Nolita#edited
Hmmm, hear you? In one of "theses" threads? Was or will? Which was or is it going to be? You can't have both.

Oh, ^..^ don't feel bad about your grammar. Your English is much better than my Herian(have to pick on you a little, how else will you know I like you?).

BTW, Matt, I don't dislike you, heck I don't even know you. You just bug me is all😉. I'm sure the feeling is mutual.
Warrior of the Light#
Originally posted by ^..^
And where did you get this relic of an ancient civilisation?
It stood rusting away when I started working here. I first removed the dust and spiders, then it seemed to be working. (I'm the third trainee in a company that usually only has two (part of my education), so I don't even have my own screwdrivers and stuff, I need to share with an other trainee 👎 ).

I'm thinking about fixing my 386 SX 33MHz with 4Mb RAM too one day, but I'm not sure If I would use it when it works again.

Nostalgia isn't what it has been anymore...
^..^#
@ WOTL
So you've got an old 386 laptop and also 4MB old (SIMM or DIMM?)-RAM? If you find some other things you should open a museum, why not earn some extra money? I could donate a single 286 processor (unforunately it was soldered onto the mainboard so now it is a slightly damaged souvenir).

@PAK-9
btw is there any interest in a translated version?
Warrior of the Light#
Not a laptop, a minitower with SIMM ram. couldn't begin to say how much video memory it has..

Please, send it; I have no difficulty desoldering about anything at my work if it'd still work. 😁
^..^#
Originally posted by WarriorO/TLight
Not a laptop, a minitower with SIMM ram. couldn't begin to say how much video memory it has..

Please, send it; I have no difficulty desoldering about anything at my work if it'd still work. 😁
right, it was hboy who found a notebook at home. Must have mixed it up. 😕

Are you skillful enough to selder the cpu onto another mainboard again? Wow, that would really be difficult, since the lenght of the pins varies cause they were broken off roughly. 😉
Warrior of the Light#
well, they have to be long enough to make it to the other end of the board of course, or else there's nothing to make conatact with the soldering islands (translated litterally from Dutch) when I solder it.
PAK-9#
Originally posted by ^..^
@PAK-9
btw is there any interest in a translated version?
Given that the guide has only been downloaded about 400 times I doubt the demand is really there. If one abmitiously estimates that 5% of the readers are of your given translation language your aiming for an audience of about 20 people... thats a lot of work for 20 readers.
^..^#
@ WOTL
I think that won't be possible anymore... I just now brought it up again from a dusty well hidden box and had to see that this part of hardware history is defnitely out of order. 🙁

@PAK-9
I had no idea about how many people actually were interested in your tutorial. (probably because i find your tutorial so great, there have been thousands downloading it in my thoughts 😉).
However, in that case we should be content with your .doc and nolita's html version (anticipating it's completion).
Nolita#
Excuse me? I totally stuck it on the back burner(waiting for Matt to do make the html). I don't think you should wait for Pak-9's final version of the manual because ideally there will never be a final version of the manual. That's because ideally there will never be a "final" version of AVS. There will continue to be new innovations, with everything from APEs to the program itsself.

I think it's similair to any other software manual, or book. I have more than one Photoshop manual, and book. Also more than one 3DS Max book. It's because there has to be a manual for each version. Just because someone has everything from earlier versions of an app down pat doesn't mean they understand a newer version, or a new plug-in or in AVS APE. That's not even counting when new people "discover" an application.

You just do it, then submit it to Pak-9 and wait for him to check it out and approve it. Realize the version we read and love will expand over time, some parts may become obsolete(if something that works better comes along of course), still some new parts will have to be added.

I'm not saying Pak-9 will have to continue making new versions all by himself. I mean he may decide he doesn't want to, or might find himself swamped and without the needed time. If the manual is in the spirit of AVS, I'm sure he won't mind if other people helped out. It's a community service he has provided, and he should be very proud, or at least feel a great deal of satisfaction that so many of us do indeed appreciate it.

BTW, I'm not entirely sure that ^..^ meant to type "nolita's html version" it might have just been a slip of the tongue via the fingers/keyboard.
^..^#
i'm sorry about this misunderstanding. It seemed to me like nolita would do it. Sorry matt, i didn't intend to offend you. I hope you are pleased again when i revise that last sentence:

"However, in that case we should be content with your .doc and soon MATT's html version (anticipating it's completion)."

Perhpaps you should have posted a defnitie word who in the end took this job. Then we could have spared this discusion.
PAK-9#
Why do people talk about me as if I'm not here

I'ts bad enough people do it to me in real life.
^..^#
why should it be different here? 😛

Joking apart, i hope that anyone will finally do the html version. I think it would be for the public benefit (at least it would be worth the work 😉)

However, i'm sorry if you got hurt 😢. I know that feeling: It's worst when my mother is on the phone with my grandparents (just to take one example). She can calmly talk about me, whithout even recognizing that i'm sitting next to her 😕
WalkerP#
You can simply go

hu=i*$PI*2;
red=cos(hu)*0.5+0.5;
green=cos(hu+1.9)*0.5+0.5;
blue=cos(hu+2.8)*0.5+0.5;
TomyLobo#
Originally posted by PAK-9
You should install wa on it... get some really technical AVS's running, mmm... frameratelicious
erm, no i don't think so
a Pentium 75 does not have MMX ^^
most components need mmx though (convo, texer2, triangle 🙂)
most of the filters too, i think
WalkerP#
Lets just bring this back to subject again...
in texer 2 there is
Iw image width
ih image height
there are also
reg00 - reg99
Warrior of the Light#
Originally posted by WalkerP
Lets just bring this back to subject again...
Is the question not answered yet then?

^^^Upgraded to a ComPAK CrashPro P3 500 now, so... yay!
Warrior of the Light#
They sure know how to reward their (high-end machine addicted) trainees... 🧟

well, not that addicted, or else I wasn't using a celeron myself (1.7GHz, but still...)
^..^#
actually that pc doesn't have to be fast enough for winamp, right? You should probably only use it for office purposes...

However, i know it would be nice to use "some free minutes" 😉 for avs or so.
PAK-9#
Originally posted by TomyLobo
erm, no i don't think so
a Pentium 75 does not have MMX ^^
most components need mmx though (convo, texer2, triangle 🙂)
most of the filters too, i think
Well if APE makers bothered to put instruction set detection into their APE's it wouldnt be a problem.

There, I said it.
UnConeD#
Why should we go through that trouble to cater to 0.000001% of the AVS using population, when we could just spend that time implementing a useful feature?