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Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:12:59 GMT
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Don Heyse wrote:
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> Good luck finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1! In occasional
> moments of insanity I've considered building a version of ldglite for
> DOS with the djgpp compiler and Scitech MGL, but then I come to my senses
> and remember that LDRAW and LEDIT already work quite well in DOS.
> I don't think LDRAW will do the quiet polling in Win 3.1 that you want
> though.
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> Why not upgrade the 486 to Win95? I use it on my ancient 486 laptop and
> it works pretty well.
With 420 Mb hard disk and 16 Mb RAM, it's no upgrade at all. (RAM not even
upgradeable). I prefer a fast 486 with Win 3.1 before a slow one with Win95.
I have no hope of finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1. I want to
know what viewers for Win95+ that poll. I would have checked for myself if I
had access to my PC at home, but it's far away...
/Tore
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I suppose if you have a bunch of compact Win 3.1 apps you might feel that way. My 486 laptop has 20 Mb and a much smaller disk and works fine for me, but I mostly use it for multiple DOS windows to run the compiler and text editor. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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| (...) I think you are mistaken ! Memory Manager in Win3.1 is pretty much Brain Dead, after an hour or two of usage, it starts swaping memory to disk like crazy, because it does not regrup the deallocated memory. Trust me it's worth the change. I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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| (...) Good luck finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1! In occasional moments of insanity I've considered building a version of ldglite for DOS with the djgpp compiler and Scitech MGL, but then I come to my senses and remember that LDRAW and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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