...we ran it on a Pentium Pro 200 / Windblows NT 4.0 with a 4MB Matrox Millenuim Graphics card with a whopping 96MB of RAM! :) I could run up to 5 instances of TriSpective rendering out 5 different animation sequences of some several hours at a time. Then there was the Blue Screen Crash thing to deal with, but in between NT shenanigans TriSpectives was amazing. BTW there are faster ways to use it from what I could see you do in the demo, for holes just dump a hole and use smart dimensions to position it.
LOL! Memories, I had almost the exact same setup back then, a 200 Pentium Pro, 128MB (2x64MB DIMMS), 2GB SCSI-3 HDD and a Matrox Millennium with a massive 8MB WRAM (lol), and yes... NT blue screens of death were common. I remember the tri-ball but never really used it. Sadly, I never got really good at Trispectives, thanks for sharing.
Seems like people had easily discovered how to create 3D shapes on computers. But no one seemed to have developed a proper user interface to aid construction.
According to U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 500$ of 1995 is equal to $991.39 of today... that's almost %100 inflation. In my country, Turkey We've had %100 inflation in just the last year :)
Hello, yes, I have seen on the news that your beautiful country Türkiye has been having dreadful inflation. I pray that the inflation slows soon for your country.
@@vertanux1 Thank you sir for your kind words, there really is some beauty to this country. Rich history, culture and nature, very much worth visiting for any tourist but damn it's a sh.thole to live 😃 probably the only country in the world where it's own citizens are discriminated against and a paradise for refugees 🙃
very nice retrospective, just saw it mentioned on a gfx card box and loved the rendering output
IronCAD is amazing. Wild to see its origins.
For the hole, use the TriBall tool its the best invention in 3DCAD!
This program is today's Iron Cad.
...we ran it on a Pentium Pro 200 / Windblows NT 4.0 with a 4MB Matrox Millenuim Graphics card with a whopping 96MB of RAM! :) I could run up to 5 instances of TriSpective rendering out 5 different animation sequences of some several hours at a time. Then there was the Blue Screen Crash thing to deal with, but in between NT shenanigans TriSpectives was amazing. BTW there are faster ways to use it from what I could see you do in the demo, for holes just dump a hole and use smart dimensions to position it.
LOL! Memories, I had almost the exact same setup back then, a 200 Pentium Pro, 128MB (2x64MB DIMMS), 2GB SCSI-3 HDD and a Matrox Millennium with a massive 8MB WRAM (lol), and yes... NT blue screens of death were common. I remember the tri-ball but never really used it. Sadly, I never got really good at Trispectives, thanks for sharing.
Miss this program I need this again
You can d/l version 1 on Internet Archives
The modern version is called IronCAD
Seems like people had easily discovered how to create 3D shapes on computers. But no one seemed to have developed a proper user interface to aid construction.
..also we have all the extra disks such as TriGallery, extra 3D Model libraries and more.
I have v1.0
Any idea where I could get newer versions?
Would love to add to my nostalgia collection
wow flashback
According to U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 500$ of 1995 is equal to $991.39 of today... that's almost %100 inflation.
In my country, Turkey We've had %100 inflation in just the last year :)
Hello, yes, I have seen on the news that your beautiful country Türkiye has been having dreadful inflation. I pray that the inflation slows soon for your country.
@@vertanux1 Thank you sir for your kind words, there really is some beauty to this country. Rich history, culture and nature, very much worth visiting for any tourist but damn it's a sh.thole to live 😃 probably the only country in the world where it's own citizens are discriminated against and a paradise for refugees 🙃
Do you plan to make a series on Catia?
Maybe someday. I have considered making Catia videos for years.
@@vertanux1 hi, do you plan to make a series about Simulation of SolidWorks? thanks for attention