Forum - General Discussion - this Muvizu is AWESOME!! - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Forum - General Discussion - this Muvizu is AWESOME!! - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:48:49 GMT Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:48:49 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from ziggy72 Emily wrote:
Such geekery!!

Ah well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Here's my contribution:

http://designbeep.com/2010/09/30/55-vintage-computer-ads-which-will-make-you-compare-today-and-past/

I have to say, I do quite fancy a Tech-Sketch Light Pen.

Preferably without the demonic child...


If you haven't already, you really should try that link - I want a Penril Modem! And 16k of Raw Power!! And I think the demonic child is actually plugged into the mains by accident...
]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:48:49 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from mysto glasgowjim wrote:
That's nothing; this was the power supply of my first PC:


edited by glasgowjim on 02/03/2011


Wow... yours had a much bigger hamster than mine did!]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:30:55 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from ukBerty
I spent weeks writing Frogger for it - I was really pleased although there was a bit of a time lag so you had to anticipate the traffic coming.

Then one day the tape got chewed and my fortune was lost.......

Berty]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:59:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from clamtom
Tom here, a new Muvizu fan.

I wish my computer story were MY story but it happened to my best childhood friend Don: Bought the original home computer the Altair 8800, learned computers, started a computer company, sold it, himself and most of his employees to Microsoft and retired at 50 a multimillionaire. I'm a poor but honest cartoonist, but at least I live in Hawaii.

My dad was in charge of the "data processing" department of a large financial company back in the '60s so I got to play with the big IBM System 360s and a lot of cool stuff. My first computer was from Korea--can't remember the name except it was the Model D--in 1983.

Keep up the good work!]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:37:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from IanS artpen wrote:
He stud back, his one eyebrow raised gently, and told me in a secret voice..........
" Type, RUN "

So funny! I wonder how many people he amazed with his advanced skills!

Oh the nostalgia in this thread... Atari 400 was my first computer too - well a family one shared between 5 kids. Then on to ZX Spectrum years after. Those were the days ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:34:43 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from penman i am enjoyin readin the comments]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:20:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from Emily
Ah well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Here's my contribution:

http://designbeep.com/2010/09/30/55-vintage-computer-ads-which-will-make-you-compare-today-and-past/

I have to say, I do quite fancy a Tech-Sketch Light Pen.

Preferably without the demonic child...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:46:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from artpen I remember going into WH Smiths and seeing the ZX81, oh my god I thought!
The man showed me how to program
10 PRINT " Hello! "
20 GOTO 10
He stud back, his one eyebrow raised gently, and told me in a secret voice..........
" Type, RUN "
Oh my god, when I saw the word HELLO! Fall single file down the screen I sprinted out of that shop before the man could even show me his grand show
Stopper 3D Monster Maze.

When I got home I told my brother about this machine that you could program
And we spent all night talking about how we could take over the world with this 1k
memory beast!

I did'nt get the ZX81 with it's painful keyboard, but, santa is a kind man.
One christmas day, a little boy opened his presents to find large box
With the words ( VIC-20 ) on it. With total POWER OF 3 1/2 k memory!!!!

The boy looked to the heavens and said......
" By the Power of Commodor, I HAVE THE POWER!!!!! "


Ps can you remember Pressing the C64 commodor key?
edited by artpen on 02/03/2011
edited by artpen on 02/03/2011]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:33:36 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from bigwally
Somehow, I feel right at home, here. Toast
edited by bigwally on 02/03/2011]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:18:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from glasgowjim

edited by glasgowjim on 02/03/2011]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:03:58 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from Neil Thread Hijack!


My first PC had a hard drive so small that every day I had to decide between installing the word processor for uni work, or the game I was playing (Microprose F1GP).

Incidentally, I watched this on BBC's iPlayer the other day: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92

It's available to Brits (sorry, Mysto) for the next couple of days or so. It's worth it just to see that bloke who helped ruin the Hitchhiker's Guide movie and some comedian as Clive Sinclair (complete with plastic forehead), girly slapping each other around in a pub. ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:35:10 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from mcmillan-ra mysto wrote:

My first so called "real" computer was an Atari 400 with 16k of ram and a cassette tape machine to save my data on. It cost me like $400 just for the computer and the tape machine, a huge amount of money back then. I spent another $100 for a pop in cartridge that has Atari Basic on it. I spent the next few years learning how to program in Basic. Back then you could do some really cool stuff graphics wise on an Atari computer if you spent a lot of time trying to do it.

...

Those were the days...


Ah they were indeed - I had one of those. I remember learning basic, then 6502 assembler on it. The things you could do with "display list interrupts" were amazing. Fantastic machine for the time. Hard to believe it's over 30 years old now. Gulp! ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:57:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from ziggy72 ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:24:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from mysto
My first so called "real" computer was an Atari 400 with 16k of ram and a cassette tape machine to save my data on. It cost me like $400 just for the computer and the tape machine, a huge amount of money back then. I spent another $100 for a pop in cartridge that has Atari Basic on it. I spent the next few years learning how to program in Basic. Back then you could do some really cool stuff graphics wise on an Atari computer if you spent a lot of time trying to do it.

In 1990 I finally got an IBM clone computer. It was a 286 running at 16mz, had 1 meg of ram and had a 30 meg hard drive with a color monitor. There was a program that had just came out called Autodesk Animator that I also bought. A Dos based 2d animation program in 8 bits. At the time it was the best animation program available.

Those were the days...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:31:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from ziggy72 artpen wrote:
RESULT- ONE BROKEN CAMCORDER , One Crap movie of action man break dancing badlyCursing

So yes , Muvizu is AWESOME


HA! Exactly right, we had the will but zero equipment to do it (would still love to have seen your video though! ) Awesome indeed!]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:47:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from artpen yes, horrible, it was just horrible, trying to make my old action man walk, set one pose, press record, ( 2 secs ) Set another pose, dam!! action man won't stand with one leg, dam!, press record ( 2 secs) pose, record, pose, record, pose, record.................. Brick Wall,

RESULT- ONE BROKEN CAMCORDER , One Crap movie of action man break dancing badlyCursing

So yes , Muvizu is AWESOME]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:11:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from ziggy72 bigwally wrote:
I've waited almost 40 years for something like Muvizu. Everything else was too clumsy to be of any use. I've even created real animation on an old Atari 8-bit computer back in the early 90's. Muvizu is the shizz!


I first tried to do computer animation on my brother's ZX Spectrum 48k. In 1981. Seriously. You could rewrite text blocks (8x8 pixel grid) and change each text block in a sequence to fake something moving. Painful, painful process. Took a week of trial and error to get a walk cycle for the bottom half of a single character (the top half just a pixel grid pretending to be a picture) and then I gave up. And then I, too, discovered the joys of the Atari ST. Great machine - my first renders, fractals, music sequencers, and then I got distracted and spent most of my time playing Midwinter. Fun though!]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:24:35 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from KerryK bigwally wrote:
Muvizu is the shizz!



before y'alls start having a go at me i swear i didn't write that! ]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:12:26 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from bigwally Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:21:43 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from freakmoomin ]]> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:52:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from mysto
In the short time that I have been using Muvizu the Devs have added some major features to the software and they continue to keep adding "goodies" with each release. They listen carefully to their users "wants and needs" and seem to try very hard to accommodate us users the best they can.

I've only produced a few animations with Muvizu so far but I have quite a few projects "on the drawing board". I have so many ideas for animations floating around in my head it's difficult to figure out which one to start first. It sure is a fun process though.

There are many really nice and talented people here that I'm sure would be glad to help you out with Muvizu if you ever need it, all you have to do is ask. A "feature rich", real time 3d animation package, excellent technical support, a great forum and website and the fact that it's all totally free makes Muvizu one great product.

Welcome aboard!!!]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:29:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from KerryK

everyone's super friendly on the forum so don't hesitate to ask, query or just say hello ]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:56:47 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from penman ]]> Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:51:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from penman Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:46:49 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic905-this-muvizu-is-awesome.aspx Message from penman Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:23:11 GMT