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- From: Steven Rychetnik <tammy@alaska.net>
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- Subject: Re: Tmap demo/game with DCTV?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 02:19:12 GMT
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- In article <ivans-1701960255220001@dialup0f.syd1.zeta.org.au> Ivan Smith,
- ivans@zeta.org.au writes:
- >A while ago there was an attempt by myself and another Amiga 3D-Animator
- >to use DCTV (PAL) and Scala MM300 (as a basic scripting engine only the
- >final thing was to be programmed in Ansi-C and compled from there) as the
- >basis for a proto Myst type adventure game on the Amiga.
- >
- >It fell through of course, but in the mean time I had used Vista Pro 3.0
- >to do some really wild fantasy landscapes and LightWave to composite over
- >the top using ProControl and ADpro 2.5. (I love alpha channels!)
- >
- >The anim format was 736x288 (PAL overscan non-interlace) 3 bitplane (8
- >colours) DCTV and it flew like a bat out of hell on a 25Mhz 030 and
- >*really* fast on my 040/40 , so fast in fact (Anim32i) that it had to be
- >speed limited in Scala to stop the anims getting out of sync with the HArd
- >Drive and mouse events;)
- >
- >It's been thought of and I'd love to have a go at it again, but the
- >reality is how many Amiga users actually have and use their DCTV's ? and
- >the problem for me is that most of the surviving DCTV's are NTSC and mine
- >is PAL. I don't know anybody else with a DCTV so I presume they're not
- >that common any more :(
- >
- >But 8 colours is the way to go with no interlace and provided your
- >background pixels aren't constantly moving (solid colours are best) your
- >anim deltas remain small and it's feasable to do a 500 frame anim in those
- >resolutions and it takes up approximately 2M of space as a compiled anim,
- >which happens to play back well in Scala with Disk Anim on with a fast
- >SCSI drive.
- >
- >Regards,
- >
- >Ivan
-
- Yeah, I use DCTV all the time for my computer animation, so I know the
- capabilities. <grin> but my A500 with a Derringer (030/50/8) I don't
- always get the best playback even on 736 x 241 at 8 colors (yeah, NTSC)
- And I can understand about the limited numbers of users too. But it
- always tickled my imagination... Well maybe I will try and make something
- eventually... Just have to get out of school first. =)
-
- Thanks!
-
- -Steven
-