Subject: Re: Some questions 
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 16:55:47 EDT
From: Mark Thompson <mark@westford.ccur.com>

Stethem Ted writes:
> 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?

Errr, I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but is this a joke? And if
not, can I presume that you have never done a commercial job before?
1) 512K of memory is not enough to do anything useful.
2) Even if virtual memory can successfully run within 512K, it will be
   painfully slow.
3) You didn't mention an accelerator. Figure over 1/2 year rendering time
   if you don't.
4) How do you expect to run 30 fps full color animations? No stock Amiga
   is capable of this.
5) The only device capable of running 24-bit color 1024x800 anims in
   real-time is the GVP EGS-110, and it would not have enough memory for
   even 2 seconds of animation.
6) 1024x800 resolution? No such video resolution in existance. 752x480 maybe.
7) The A520 RF modulator is a toy only suitable for amusement purposes.
8) Beta video as in Betamax? No broadcast outfit would accept a 30 second
   commercial on such a low quality video format. Now BetacamSP would be
   dandy, but based on the rest of the post, I didn't think that was what
   you were refering to.

> I have a deadline to produce a 30 second 
> commercial or about 1000 frames by next week

Only the very most simplistic 30sec animation could be setup in one week.
And even then, you would be lucky to get it all rendered even on the
fastest Amiga available. Forget about a 500 with virtual memory.

>  Also, does Imagine do precognitive spline interpolation modeling?

Huh? What buzzword book did this come out of?

This must be a very belated April fools joke. The only reason I didn't
completely dismiss the whole post as humor is because I have seen very
similar questions asked before.
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