Subject: Re: Some questions
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 13:29:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Totman <etotman@gort.ucsd.edu>

On Wed, 25 May 1994, Stethem Ted 5721 wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have an Amiga 500 with Workbench 1.3, 1 disk drive and 512K of memory. 
>  Will I be able to run Imagine 3.0 floating point, Essence with multitasking 
>  ADPro, VMM040 and generate 1Gigabyte animations that run at 30 frames per 
> second in 24-bit color 1024x800 resolution over my A520 RF modulator  to my 
> Beta video cassette recorder?  I have a deadline to produce a 30 second 
> commercial or about 1000 frames by next week, so I need the answers to these 

Sure no problem.  You might want to get another floppy drive to store all 
those frames.  Might as well splurge and get a High Density.  Do you 
really think you need that much ram?  ;)

> questions as soon as possible.  Appreciate any help you can provide.  Also, 
> does Imagine do precognitive spline interpolation modeling?

According to the most recent newsletter, impulse has a "draw it in the air" 
spline curve generation device in the works, although it would require a 
bit more work to implement precognitive capability.  I don't know, maybe 
it's just a compile option like -ai or -psi.





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