Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 2020-04-17 11:59, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > If you have geometry files for Movie.BYU that would add a great deal of > value to this effort. I've run into old Nasa reports showing the space > shuttle and International space station rendered with Movie.BYU. What I found: https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources/tree/master/3D%20Models (all in .3ds format) and a converter which could probably convert .3ds to .byu http://ivcon-tl.sourceforge.net/ Cheers!
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
I did get Movie.BYU up on a linux machine and also an Alpha Vax, but what we really need is this reference: Christiansen, H.N. and K.B. Stephenson, "MOVIE.BYU Training Manual," Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (1982) Anyone got it? I'm afraid the only distribution was in the training for Movie.BYU which was expensive (in its day). Haven't been able to find it on-line or searching libraries. If you have geometry files for Movie.BYU that would add a great deal of value to this effort. I've run into old Nasa reports showing the space shuttle and International space station rendered with Movie.BYU. Cool stuff. Doug On 4/16/2020 9:24 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: A couple other ccmp guys, Emanuel Steibler and Doug Taylor and I have been passing around what I have. Doug got it working under linux. Where is the best place to put this? I also have BYU's follow up CQUEL, greatly expanded, with X11 GUI. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:07 PM To: Jon Elson via cctalk Subject: Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU? On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. I'd like the files you have. I have a partial copy of mini-movie
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 2020-04-15 15:07, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > >> If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This >> was for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. >> > > I'd like the files you have. > I have a partial copy of mini-movie Hello Al, would you mind, sending it to us? rdawso...@hotmail.com dj.tayl...@comcast.net and me? We are trying to make it work, and also looking for any "device" drivers, for different terminals/graphic boards. I'm really looking for the VAX/VS11 combination ... Cheers, emanuel
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 04/15/2020 02:07 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. I'd like the files you have. I have a partial copy of mini-movie
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
A couple other ccmp guys, Emanuel Steibler and Doug Taylor and I have been passing around what I have. Doug got it working under linux. Where is the best place to put this? I also have BYU's follow up CQUEL, greatly expanded, with X11 GUI. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:07 PM To: Jon Elson via cctalk Subject: Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU? On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for > VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. > I'd like the files you have. I have a partial copy of mini-movie
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. I'd like the files you have. I have a partial copy of mini-movie
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 2020-04-15 14:34, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Well, I didn't look in the right place. I just stumbled across what I > think is the full install of BYUMOVIE > 4.3 from December 1982. > > If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was > for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. SURE, I would be very interested! Thanks!
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 01/13/2017 10:57 AM, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/13/2017 12:46 AM, Randy Dawson wrote: The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank Christensen. I am looking for the fortran source, it should be 7 files: OH MY! I definitely had that at one time - a LONG time ago. I think it was on one of the DECUS tapes. I took a quick look at some of the backups I now have online, and did not find it. A lot of stuff that I used to have has been junked, as it was presumed to be available form somewhere else. There seem to be some links under "movie.byu" Any docs related too. I think the docs were just text files included with the source code. Well, I didn't look in the right place. I just stumbled across what I think is the full install of BYUMOVIE 4.3 from December 1982. If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for VAX/VMS. The directory contains 67 files. Also, I have come across my own version of NASA's Mini-VICAR program. Mini-VICAR was a ghastly hack of their image processing library that used pre-allocated files on a stripped-down file system to improve performance. So, your files were named something like [100,103]. I took the routines that I thought would be useful and modified them to use ordinary Files-11 files on VMS, and used the Tparse table-driven command line parser. I should have published this on DECUS back in 1982 or so, but never got around to it. Mostly, because I never wrote documentation for it. (177 files, mixture of macro and fortran.) Jon
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 01/13/2017 12:46 AM, Randy Dawson wrote: The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank Christensen. I am looking for the fortran source, it should be 7 files: OH MY! I definitely had that at one time - a LONG time ago. I think it was on one of the DECUS tapes. I took a quick look at some of the backups I now have online, and did not find it. A lot of stuff that I used to have has been junked, as it was presumed to be available form somewhere else. There seem to be some links under "movie.byu" Any docs related too. I think the docs were just text files included with the source code. Jon
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On 2017-01-13 03:23, Randy Dawson wrote: Ohhmygosh! I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places. You have wrecked my weekend. This gets me started with trying to build the thing. please let us know how it goes. It looks like a very interesting piece of software. I love wire frames!
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
> On 13 Jan 2017, at 9:23 pm, Randy Dawsonwrote: > I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff > messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places. Wasn't sure how to interpret your statement, but just in case you overlooked it, TAP is a special magnetic tape format used by SimH emulation suite: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf and I guess Nova RDOS(?) might have structured magtapes in a particular way; you might need to hunt down some tools to extract the files as complete units. Anyhow happy Fortran compiling...
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
Ohhmygosh! I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places. You have wrecked my weekend. This gets me started with trying to build the thing. I had so much fun with it a long time ago, and I have a Tektronix 4051 terminal for the output! Thank you Nigel! Randy From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Nigel Williams <n...@retrocomputingtasmania.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 1:47 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU? On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Randy Dawson <rdawso...@hotmail.com> wrote: > The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank > Christensen. This? http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DataGeneral/nova/movie_byu.tap Fragment of text found inside the TAP, looks to be FORTRAN source and doc files there: M O V I E . B Y U A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM SEPTEMBER 1976 MIKE STEPHENSON HANK CHRISTIANSEN
Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Randy Dawsonwrote: > The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank > Christensen. This? http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DataGeneral/nova/movie_byu.tap Fragment of text found inside the TAP, looks to be FORTRAN source and doc files there: M O V I E . B Y U A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM SEPTEMBER 1976 MIKE STEPHENSON HANK CHRISTIANSEN