Subject: Re: It's humid in here...Was Re: Comp.(!)transp.
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 10:09:02 +0800
From: Jukka Palko <jpalko@krksun.krk.fi>

On Thu, 5 May 1994 SPICE@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU wrote:

> From: Dean Pompilio <dean@motbch.rtsg.mot.com>
> 
> >Hello all,
> >I would like to know if there is a PD or commercial utility for virtual
> >memory that will let me play longer animations than my current memory will
> >allow.  (I have 10Mb now)  I know of PAR, but this is still out of my
> >financial reach.  What I need is some kind of prog that will use my HD as
> >extra mem and somehow buffer the frames into regular memory to allow smooth
> >playback.
> 
> 
> If you have an Amiga there are quite a few programs that will allow you
> to play ANIMs off the hard disk. If you want commercial programs, try
> Scala, Anim WorkShop(I think), Magic Lantern and Clarissa. In the 
> freeware/shareware area there is RTap, BigAnim and MainActor. 
> 
>                               Scott Corley

   I do not think that there would be much problems with playing even
large animations on the Amiga, the only thing that you need for fast
animation playing is ViewTek and a SCSI hard disk.
   I have still an IDE and that is slow for playing from hard disk.
Because of this I have been thinking on getting the A4000T, simply because
it has a Fast-SCSI-2 hard disk, and with that you can get easily 10 Mb/s
from the hard disk. IDE gives 1.5 Mb/s. SCSI can give up to 6 Mb/s so the
A4000T will be a wise choise.

> 
> spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
>  



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