Aliens are nice pets. Their only problem is dripping on the
floor.
Have
an Alien!
Yes, go ahead and download the rare full
quality JPEG of an Alien, from "Alien Legacy". The
THX DVD collector's edition of the movie, sells with some special postcards.
Here is one of such postcards. You can watch it bigger, by clicking
the picture on your left.
If you are interested in more Alien postcards, there
is one @ audiopt.com
Talking about my other websites, did you visit APAA today?
From now on it is also available in BOTH english
and portuguese languages!, thanks to Darian
C. Haffner.
APAA stands
for "Association of Portuguese Amateur Astronomers".
Mirroring DX7
FINAL
Microsoft just released DirectX 7 FINAL. This version
is NOT the one some sites are offering and that corresponds to the final
beta, previously available to beta testers. This version updates ALL the
DX APIs, from DirectDraw to DirectMusic, leaving them all @ version 4.07.00.0700.
It is a somewhat heavy download [~ 6 MB], but it is very much worth your
time. Current software doesn't exploit the DX7 suite, but future releases
will use it a lot, as DirectMusic is becoming well known to programmers,
and as hardware is giving support to the new texture function in DirectDraw.
I am not quite sure if this version represents more Frames
per Second [FPS] to actual games, but it should... I only had time to test
it with GP Legends, but that game doesn't output more than 38 FPS,
under any circumstances, so it really didn't give me any clue...
I am mirroring this file for the next few hours only,
so if you are lost on the Microsoft site, confused with "beta final" and "final" releases,
or just end up reading EULAs, without the downloading the goods, go ahead
and get DX7 FINAL [~ 6 MB EXE]! After
you've downloaded the file, execute it and follow the instructions.
3D Studio
Max R2 heavy on the machine!
I've been trying to use 3DSMAX2 on my main PC, but I find
it too hard on my system resources. It almost doesn't affect my available
memory, but it somehow drains "other resources" to as low as 6%
available... making it [sometimes] impossible to display dialog boxes!! Again,
I can assure you it is not a memory affair: having some physical 512 MB,
and a static sized swap file, I can check that their availability never goes
under 300 MB!...
So what "other resources" is 3DSMAX2 using?
Do you have the answer? contact me.
