The worst amiga applications ever!

[Aegis]

"VideoScape 3d - It's like a 3d modler/renderer... only crappy."


I think we can forgive VideoScape though seeing as it was refined into LightWave 3D...

The only piece of Amiga software I bought that I got no use out of at all was Real 3D - Christ! You needed a physics degree just to get it to run! It was the first 3D package on the market with dynamics, particles, simulation and a whole load of other neat things HOWEVER - you had to learn RPL (Real Programming Language *spit*) to use any of the good stuff... And boy, was it ever slow... Still smarts thinking about it (slaps himself) Didn't get any further than a chrome ball on a checkerboard  :-D  Could've done that with Turbo Silver (and gotten a free bag o' marbles...)

[Aegis]

Ilwrath: As I recall VideoScape 3D didn't orginally have a modelling program - I think you had to create ascii text files 'describing' your object. It was published by a company called Aegis (no relation :-D at some point the author, Allen Hastings met up with Stuart Ferguson who'd written a geometry modelling app called simply 'Modeler' which could output VideoScape object files - Aegis marketed them both for a while but eventually went under whereupon the two programmers found themselves at NewTek at around the same time a chap called Tim Jenison was telling people his company was working on a "new kind of toaster". The rest as they say is history. (Oh, and Stuart's geometry modelling app is still called 'Modeler'  :-)