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JAVA, PROGRAMMING: ANNOUNCE: Magician 1.1.0 for OS/2 Released! (OpenGL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alligator Descartes)
Mon Jan 18 21:27:40 1999
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 18 Jan 1999 18:06:00 -0500
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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Arcane Technologies Ltd. releases ``Magician'' 1.1.0
for SPARC/Solaris, Intel/Solaris, OS/2 and Irix
Arcane Technologies Ltd. are proud to announce the availability of Magician
1.1.0 for SPARC/Solaris, Intel/Solaris, Irix 5.x/6.x and OS/2 platforms. These
releases supplement our existing Magician 1.1.0 support for Linux and
Windows 95/98/NT.
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.
Magician was rated amongst the ``Top 5%'' of Java applets
and applications by the independent JARS rating service.
-- JARS Rating Service ( http://www.jars.com )
"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
"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
Magician is currently shipping for Windows 95/NT, Linux, Irix, OS/2,
SPARC/Solaris and Intel/Solaris operating systems with ports to MacOS and BeOS
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
avaiable to download for evaluation purposes. 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.
See our WWW site for more details on our extremely competitive licensing
terms.
Contact Info:
Alligator Descartes <magician-sales@arcana.co.uk>
Download Magician Now!
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/arcanetechnologi
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