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View-3D & Quix disk for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 04-07-2022
Thanks to ejwords for making this disk available to be imaged. A standard bootable ds40 5.25" Microbee disk that imaged 100% error free.
View3D, as the name suggests, allows you to view a 3D image and then change its perspective, scale, rotation, etc and then capture the image, but ONLY works on a Premium 64k or 128k Microbee's. Plot3D, also on the disk, allows you to display the captured images. All in HIRES and the programs were written in Turbo Pascal. There are a few examples on the disk and the author of these programs unfortunately is unknown.
Also on the disk were 5 versions of Quix. Demos of a fast moving spiraling hires graphics display. They randomly change shape and appear to go for ever. Need to Reset to exit. Difficult to capture a picture as it all moves so darn quick, but one was
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications\Graphics folder we placed
view3d_ds40.dsk