Impression at South West show
Chris Hall (132) 3512 posts |
The South West show was interesting. On one stand I saw Impression running on a Pandaboard ES with the support of Aemulor but on closer inspection it was not quite what I had expected: Yes, it is being actively developed and converted to 32 bit. About 10% of the 32 bit conversion and updating work has been done (hence the need for Aemulor at present). Further screen shots here of the Impression window: and the whole desktop: |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
Wow! Drool! Wow! Drool! etc. |
Martin Bazley (331) 379 posts |
Bloody hell. That was… unexpected. |
Rick Murray (539) 13432 posts |
I like the photo showing the thing being used as a beer holder. Impression, the proverbial phoenix, eh? What Martin said… Unexpected. Don’t want to nit-pick, but aren’t the submenu arrows on the wrong side? |
Martin Bazley (331) 379 posts |
…Aaand I guess that adds a whole hell of a lot of context to this thread. Not to mention this one. |
David Pitt (102) 743 posts |
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rob andrews (112) 200 posts |
now this is one program that i will be standing in line for By the way if you would like me to test it on a range of hardware (RPi, panda,Xm, risc Pc Ionix) my email is rob at interactivedisplays dot com dot au. sign me up. |
Keith Dunlop (214) 162 posts |
Oh look Chris Hall goes flying off the deep end yet again without qualification, clarification and (in this case) permission. For everybody else yes that is Impression running. However there is still a great deal of work to do so it isn’t recommended that you hold your breath! As we had so many RISC OS computers (two proper PandaBoard ES based ones, a BeagleBoard xM and one of those slow Raspberry Pi things ;-) ) on my stand, space was a premium. OK these days the computers are much smaller but a 30" monitor, a 28" monitor and a projector mean that the only space that was left for the essentials was on top of my machine… |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7962 posts |
As an owner of both Impression and Ovation Pro (using OvPro more than Impression at any time in the last decade) I’m just impressed that it exists. No doubt by the time it’s ready to use the platform will be using some even newer hardware. |
nemo (145) 2437 posts |
Bearing in mind how long ago X-ample got the Impression sources out of Kate (it’s at least a decade) I wouldn’t necessarily holding your breath, or any longer-cycle excretory function. And I bet it will still fall over if you try to put more than 256 frames on a page. Mind you, having looked at detail at the code produced, I can only imagine how difficult the sources will be to deal with. They really had no idea about ADR for example. Dear oh dear. It was very early days. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7962 posts |
bq.Bearing in mind how long ago X-ample got the Impression sources out of Kate (it’s at least a decade) I wouldn’t necessarily holding your breath, or any longer-cycle excretory function. Well, yes. Shall we say the new moves are moving faster? |
Bryan Hogan (339) 563 posts |
Come along to ROUGOL on Monday 18th March for all the latest info on Impression X from the developer Richard Keefe. Richard will be talking about how he became involved, what progress has been made, what still needs to be done, and how much of the source code is missing! |
David Boddie (1934) 222 posts |
If there’s source code missing, he could take a chance and ask Xara if they have anything lying around. Maybe he’s already done that. |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
given
The likely hood that the sources have been found in the last ten years must be…. have you an electron microscope? |
David Boddie (1934) 222 posts |
I corresponded with people from Xara fairly recently about something else. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that sources could be found, however unlikely it may seem. |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
Does anyone have an update from the ROUGOL meeting about Impression-X? |