Amiga Vista

[LoadWB]

After 10 billion search hits for "Vista" returning the "Amiga is teh deadz0r, V1st4 r00lz joo" thread...

I came across a user group demo of Vista in my storage room. What can this program really do, and is there a more modern version than 1990 available, possibly with RTG support?

[Matt_H]

I think it's the fractal landscape generator, right? Have a look for Vista Pro instead, that was developed up to at least version 3.0. It was given away on a CU Amiga cover CD a while back as well - I want to say January 1997, but I'm not certain.

[bobamu]

Didn't it's name change to "World Construction Set" or something like that?

[Hans_]

@bobamu

I was under the impression that WCS was a totally different app. From memory, the renderings looked more realistic too. Never had a chance to play with it myself though. :-(

Hans

[bhoggett]

bobamu wrote:
Didn't it's name change to "World Construction Set" or something like that?
No, that was something else entirely.

Vista was a 3D landscape rendering program.

[Homer]

I guess Bill Gates went back in time and sued their ass off :roflmao:
What do you mean its true :shocked:

[The_Editor]

Vista Pro was given away on pc mags too.

The dems are even cross platform usable.

WCS is a different app.

Panorama was another generator

[bobamu]

My memory is not so good :)

Seems that vista got quite photorealistic (at least for the time) in later incarnations.

DEM is a quite old data format that I suspect predates vista and the amiga, no doubt some GIS person knows all the details

[pVC]

Vista was nice on a500. I made some graphics with it on my AMOS games. Vista Pro was just great. Had to buy FPU on my A1200 originally that it and Real3D would have ran. Those countless hours for waiting it to render some landscape fly bys :)

And yes, WCS was different program, but about for same purpose. Generating real looking landscapes. WCS was bit too difficult, but judging pictures on magazines, it had real impressive results too. Especially water.

[JaXanim]

Vista Pro 3 - CU Amiga Super CD14 - September 1997

Needs a fix on certain machines. Systems with RTG should launch VistaPro from Workbench running under a native screen mode. Machines without FPU processor needs Stack adjustment in the script called 'VistaPro3.0'. Edit this to Stack 50000 and place it at the start of the script.

World Construction Set can be seen HERE (http://3dnature.com/wcs6info.html)

JaX

[AmigaPete]

Thought you meant this...

http://www.maj.com/gallery/LegoPete/Amiga/vista_amiga.jpg

but then realised you meant this...http://www.maj.com/gallery/LegoPete/Amiga/vista.jpg

Pete :-D

[blobrana]

Hum,
the best place to find it, i guess, would be on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300064077209&ih=020&category=80340&ssPageName=STORE:PROMOBOX:NEWLIST) or similar...

Image (http://www.cu-amiga.co.uk/images/covers/sep97_s.gif)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/337370475_d5250867bd_m.jpg
Amiga Vista ScreenShot (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/337370476_72a86ca762_o.jpg) (151kb, 800 x 600)

[DonnyEMU]

World Construction Set??? And all this time I thought WCS meant "Writeable Control Store"

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-o :-o :-o

[Cyberus]

DonnyEMU wrote:
World Construction Set??? And all this time I thought WCS meant "Writeable Control Store"

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-o :-o :-o

I thought it was 'Worst Case Scenario'

[Lemonty]

I thought it meant 'water closet in stereo'.
World Construction Set was supposedly the first commercial app to use MUI.

[HopperJF]

Matt_H wrote:
I think it's the fractal landscape generator, right? Have a look for Vista Pro instead, that was developed up to at least version 3.0. It was given away on a CU Amiga cover CD a while back as well - I want to say January 1997, but I'm not certain.

Vista Pro (http://www.cu-amiga.co.uk/bissue/sep97.html)

Vista Lite (http://www.cu-amiga.co.uk/bissue/sep96.html)




:-)

[Matt_H]

Heh, there it is :-)

[Wizardo]

Hi,
I think there's some mind reading going on on this site! :-o
I spent a few hours yesterday trying to find Vista Pro 3.0 on the web. I found all the CU Amiga Magazine references...seached Aminet....but no Vista 3.0 Pro.

I used it a lot back when I had a real Amiga....also Fractal Landscape Generator (I think that's what it was called...) but its been so long, I can't remmember the details of use.
I have an ADF file of Vista Pro 3.0, but it seems not to want to work with my Amiga Forever set up....any ideas? (I read about the stack issue...I'll try that fix too) Is there anyone with a "read me" file/instruction file that could share it with me? :rtfm:
If anyone has a link to a download to it, I would greatly appreciate it. I have a feeling that my ADF is probably corrupted or something....

Thanks,

Wiz

[Wizardo]

World Construction Set can be seen HERE

@Jax:

Yikes! At that price.....I'll continue tinckering on Vista Pro.... :-)

Wiz

[mbrantley]

For anybody who wants to get VistaPro 3.0 running on a machine with a graphics card installed, the guide file that comes with modepro.lha utility tells you how to do it. I just discovered this yesterday. It's still running in a native and not promoted display mode, but at least it's running. Before, VistaPro would crash if launched from a RTG Workbench screen, as the program tries to get its screenmode cue from the Workbench screen. Had to make a Fakebench public screen that's native and edit the VistaPro binary to change the word Workbench to Fakebench.