Actually Max ran on windows 95 and then 98 as well though it wasn't meant to I guess, unlike a lot of other software at the time, which was a huge part of why it was popular (alongside the whole piracy thing). For that alone it was for quite a while relegated as a toy app in people's minds. That and the fact it WAS the crashiest DCC app ever to disgrace the hard drives of a million users.
The hardware was not a problem for anybody that I remember of, it wasn't that bad actually. I remember those days extremely well as they more or less line up with when I was starting to make a living (and was considering buying MAX actually, ended up buying LW). I don't remember the HW being a problem at all, if anything MAX was more forgiving than a lot of other apps especially on the video card front. As for Stefan's post I posted it because of its existence, because of the fact people like him are coming out of the woodwork has some (not a lot maybe) significance. Not because he's right across the line :) His representation of MAX heroically democratizing 3D Software alone is completely rose tinted and forgetful in example. MAX came in trying to shoulder Lightwave away in that sector, which had already been doing the good work of democratizing since Amiga days. 3DS for dos was possibly more significant in those regards. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Angus Davidson > <angus.david...@wits.ac.za> wrote: > > > > I always felt 3dsR4 was where it peaked . having to work with max 1 and > 2 for me wasn't a very pleasant experience. I was very grateful to move off > off that to a version of Softimage|DS > > > > I think the Autodesk management is underestimating how concerned their > user base has become. > > Max 1 and 2 must have been a pretty tough time, given that it's a new > app that didn't work with any of the DOS plug-ins, and .. was written > for Windows NT, which nobody wanted to use or had the hardware for. (8 > megs of RAM, are you crazy?) This was a time when people were still a > couple years away from giving up hacking their config.sys and > autoexec.bat to tweak the 640k DOS memory. Of course XSI had it owns > OS choice issues and is still trailing the old SI|3D in animation > performance as well. Still, being the vastly popular plug-in platform > that it is, Max is the app we all wish we could have made. > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
