From: mbernat@gel.ulaval.ca (Marc Bernatchez)
Subject: Re: PROD: Need Help with AMBER from Dive Laboratories
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 20:56:55 GMT
Organization: dep. de Genie electrique


> In reference to AMBER from Dive Laboratories:  
>>There is a tutorial seperate from the reference manual (at least with
>>the 1.3.1 Windows version).  It was also at their home page once upon
>>a time.  There are also several demo programs with the software
>>distribution, which include software.
>>I had to hack at it quite a bit.
>
>Have you ever gotten a final release on that?  From what I gather they
>never cleaned up the last beta I got.  That was one product that had a
>lot of potential but really fell short!  In fact I'm not sure if a
>really usable version ever got sold!  That was sad.  Bought a
>commercial product that should have been a beta, sigh...

I got some updates from them. They will release version 1.4 in a few
weeks as I been told by them. This new version will include much
improvements over the version 1.3.1. Keep in mind that it is a rather
new product and it already compare favorably to much costlier ones
like worldtoolkit.

I made a few comments to them about the lack of good documentation
with their product. I hope that they will put more effort in that
direction.

All I can say is that the support I got from them is superb. I usually
get a reply to my e-mail within a day. I still believe that this
product has great potential and I'm confident enough about it to use
it as my platform to build my VR system.

Regards


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