Although VU-3D is billed as a business program, many of you will have fun with tinkering around and showing off the program to your friends. This program sure shows off the stuff a TS 2068 can do!
VU-3D is a program that allows you to draw and view figures in a 3 dimensional perspective. The graphics are excellent, and the 3-D is so real! In normal viewing mode, no hidden lines are taken out, but if you get into picture mode, you can: take out the hidden lines (the computer does it all at the touch of a button!), copy your picture to the printer, shade the picture from 8 different directions, and magnify and reduce the picture. The format of the program is excellent, and you really don’t need many instructions to operate the program. Drawing your picture is as easy as 1-2-3! All you do, is draw the picture on the screen (the flat face of the figure) and then give it depth by pressing the ‘N’ key. The program comes with a demo wine glass shaped figure (as seen in the picture; the cube I drew myself).
Included in the program is the ability to save the figure you have drawn, or load another one from cassette. So if you draw a great picture you would like to keep, you can! You can also choose the border, paper, and ink colors on the screen.
VU-3D is an overall excellent program. I think anyone with a Timex-Sinclair 2068 should have one just to see the capabilities of the powerful machine.
