Roger

Merry Christmas everyone

You might want to consider shopping around, it sounds like your company is giving you the old screw-job.

I'll see what I can do, I think I still have an old CD based copy that I can experiment with. Sorry for the delay, been a bit busy lately.

I really don't see this shaking out in any way that is good for the average citizen, regardless of nation. Wages have not kept track with productivity. Productivity is through the roof, yet wages have been flat for the last 40 years or so. I would imagine at some point the powers that be will probably arrange for you to have some kind of pittance to live on so you don't have half or more of the population just homeless and starving, but it won't be any sort of Star Trek style post-scarcity abundance.

Let me know if you'd like a brief tutorial, I've had XP running in a VM on both Linux and Win 10. Currently experimenting with getting AM going in a vm, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work so long as you can pass the CD drive through to the VM. You might be limited to software 3D though, I don't know how GPU passthrough works with virtualbox.

If you need help setting up a virtual machine to run XP on a new windows system, I might be able to help with that. I have run Virtualbox vms with XP on both Windows and Linux systems. Currently in the process of testing an older version of AM running in a vm on Linux. Let me know if you're interested and I can post a brief tutorial.

I don't remember that model, must not have downloaded the extras that year.

Rob, that's pretty cool I'll have to experiment with doing a Floppy Thom.

I don't believe I've heard of him before today, but it would seem he invented ASCII art.

Happy Birthday, Rob. I hope you had a nice day. Thanks for all the work you do running the contests.

Rob, nice image, like your composition. Happy New Year everyone, hopefully 2022 is going to be a better year.

These are very good for low poly models. How did you get the devil lady and catlady so curvy? Also, why are some of the monsters blinking in and out in the videos? Are you doing a whole mod? Would be interested in seeing the full mod.

Take your time, there's no rush.

Happy 4th of July to you as well, Rob.

Just wanted to say a quick "thank you" to Rob for going to the trouble of running the image contests. It's always interesting to see the different themes and see what everyone comes up with. Thank you again, Rob, for your efforts.

You may want to consider running Windows XP or Windows 2000 in a Virtualbox VM and then run your older version of AM on that. That may let you get around the problem if money is tight.

Looks cool, how are you generating the trippy backgrounds?

Frazier, Just wanted to say as a long time AM user and also synth enthusiast and amateur musician, I really enjoyed your video and liked getting a "behind the scenes" look into how you did this. Would love to see more of your stuff.

Congratulations Steve, Dan and Paul!

Congratulations Steve Shelton, Dan Skelton and Paul Harris! Looking forward to seeing everyone's entries in the upcoming image contest.

Wasn't one of our forums members working at Blue Sky? Or am I mistaken?

Neat! Is this part of a project or just messing around?

Merry Christmas to you, Fuchur, and everyone else on the forum! If you don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Holidays!

I could try taking a stab at it but I don't know if I'd be able to do a detailed enough model to stand up to close scrutiny. How large of a print are you planning on doing? Bullwinkle seems like he'd be easy but Rocky has that darn flight helmet thing he wears.

Once they finally release their 8 core APU (their term for the cpu with onboard graphics) for the DIY crowd, that is going to be the new bang-for buck standard. I'm also looking forward to RDNA-2 which is rumored to be 50% faster than the Nvidia 2080ti. It will be interesting to see what the stock does, it looked like it was never going to break past $60 so it will be interesting to see where it goes from here.