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ANNOUNCE: Magician for OS/2 Released!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alligator Descartes)
Sun Aug 30 18:29:39 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 30 Aug 1998 17:03:00 -0400
From: descarte@arcana.co.uk (Alligator Descartes)
Reply-To: descarte@arcana.co.uk (Alligator Descartes)
Reply-to: descarte@arcana.co.uk (Alligator Descartes)
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GLASGOW, Scotland
Arcane Technologies Ltd. has released the ``Magician''
Java OpenGL interface version 1.0.0 for Intel OS/2!
Arcane Technologies Ltd. are proud to announce the first release of their
port of Magician to OS/2 Warp V4.
Magician allows developers to write portable, high-performance OpenGL
applications using the Java programming language. Magician interfaces
directly with existing OpenGL installations to deliver high-performance and
hardware-accelerator-aware 3D capabilities to Java. Developers can use many
advanced Java features, such as multi-threading, in conjunction with
Magician to deploy sophisticated applications and applets with ease.
Built-in profiling and tracing support makes debugging and optimizing OpenGL
applications simpler than ever.
Magician supports 100% of core OpenGL and GLU including support for NURBS
surfaces, tesselators and quadrics. Network-aware utility classes for
texture and font handling are also provided along with many other useful
utility classes and dozens of complete demonstration programs.
"The Magician package is an extremely well designed and robust Java
class library that has saved me a lot of grief and headache when using
OpenGL and Java."
-- Brian Hook
Programmer, id Software
"SynaPix is a 3D graphics company that meets its customers needs through
graphics performance. We rely on Arcane's ``Magician'' technology as
the cornerstone to our high speed graphics display and rendering
solution. We have noticed no appreciable overhead to using Magician to
control our OpenGL rendering than if we called OpenGL directly.
Furthermore, Arcane's use of different OpenGL vendor implementations as
well as its availability on different platforms has left our
application true to the Java philosophy: platform independent."
-- Rob DeMillo
Project Manager:
Java Graphics Technology Group, SynaPix
Magician is currently shipping for Windows 95/NT, Linux, Irix, Solaris and
OS/2 operating systems with ports to MacOS, BeOS and AIX in the pipeline.
Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, Symantec Cafe, SuperCede and the
Sun JRE/JDK are currently supported for both application and applet usage on
suitable platforms.
The Magician Runtime, including a 120 page ``Programmer's Guide'', is
completely free to download for personal, educational and non-commercial
use. Magician bundles including a CD containing all versions of Magician,
soft copies of the documentation and a printed hard-copy of the
``Programmer's Guide'' are available for purchase at GBP20 ( approx.
US$35 ). Bulk licences for non-commercial and educational institutions are
also available at GBP15 ( approx. US$25 ) per seat.
Commercial Runtime Licenses are priced at GBP100 ( approx US$175 ) per seat
and allow distribution of Magician with commercial applications
royalty-free. Each Commercial Runtime Licence is shipped with a Magican CD
and hard-copy ``Programmer's Guide''.
Source Licenses are also available affording developers the ability to
tightly integrate Magician technology into their applications.
Contact Info:
Alligator Descartes <descarte@arcana.co.uk>
Magician Download and Information:
http://www.arcana.co.uk/products/magician
--
Alligator Descartes | ``Reality Architecture: Building 3D Worlds In Java
descarte@arcana.co.uk | and VRML'' -- Alligator Descartes, Martin McCarthy
http://www.arcana.co.uk | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0137486251
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