Max 1.0 was released before Windows 95.. I remember the user base rage a couple of years earlier when they announced they would be developing the next gen software exclusivly for NT, though now I cannot figure out where I would have known about that; perhaps usenet or bbs.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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.
