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In article <1993Jan24.140201.21965@netcom.com> mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian) writes:
>  The reason the rendere is so slow is because it does not take advantage
>of a math co-processor(essential for 3D animation).

Render DOES take advantage of the Math Chip, in fact all of Playmation uses
and requires it (says so on the box).

>  I hear that Rend24
>(which should not be a seperate package) requires a math coprocessor.

It will also use and require a Math Chip.  There were a lot of reasons to
make Render24 separate.  First was that it became 2 entities on the PC,
to support VGA, and the other for broadcast out.  Those are 2 very differnt
groups of people with very different needs.  The same can be said about
Multimedia folks who need output that can play on as many machines
possible and people doing full broadcast output.  We decided to make 
the default renderer simpler for the majority of folks who are doing
multimedia quality output.  The other problems is that Render24 on Amiga
and PC has no interface, it's command-line.  Therefore, I am busily making
a Mac interface for the Mac version, and adding the QuickTime compression
dialog and PICT output options.  Render24 will be out next month, as
will the Decaler module.  Another problem is if we included Render24 and
made the base price $399, then we'd have angry Mac users asking why the
PC people only had to pay $299.  It's hard to please everybody, but we
try.

Anyway, Playmation WITH Render24 is still only $399.  




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