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- PDS Affordable Multimedia
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-
- After many greuling hours, burning the midnight oil, it's finally out. The
- affordable multimedia. It requires no extra hardware. All you have to have
- is a 386 or better computer, with VGA. We do recommend that the minimum
- requirement be a 386-25. Slower machines just don't cut it. The video
- displays in a 160x100 user-definable viewing position, with 64 levels of
- gray. If you need help just type PLAY, and return, a help screen will
- appear. What you see on the screen is smooth, pixel free animation. Our
- major concern in developing this product, was calarity, and frame motion.
- The compression algorithm is broken into two catagories: Standard
- compression and extended compression. Both algorithms, use a no-loss
- technique. Standard compression gives us about a 30% better compression
- rate than .GIF, or .ZIP. Extended compression gives us an additional 20-
- 50% over what we already have, but this takes us about 3-5 hours per minute
- of finished video, on a 486-50. (Computers are still too slow!). But for
- a no-loss algorithm, that can display instantaneously, it's impressive!
- This is our first released version. Please feel free to distribute it, and
- may the whole world see video, with no special hardware.
-
- Options:
-
- -pfilename[.PCX] .PCX graphics file loaded before video. Do not use
- the first 64 colors in the palette, since they will be
- changed for the video. Also, the border disappears when
- using this option, so you will have to design your own.
- -tfilename[.TXT] .TXT text file for quick and dirty text displays. Your
- screen limitation is 40x24, and you can use the video
- position option to make more text room available.
- -vx,y Video position, x = 0-319, y = 0-199.
-
- Additional keys that work during play:
-
- 1-9 Changes the speed of the video. 6-9 do not work with extended
- compression.
- 5,P Play
- S Stop, any key to continue
-
- If you want to run the video under Windows, using a .PIF file or the run
- command, you must first run Windows in standard mode, i.e. win /s.
- In the .PIF file the program to run is 'command.com', and the additional
- parameters, will be '/c play [filename]'.
-
- For additional information, or for a free demo, please contact:
-
- Professional Data Systems
- 1200 Woodruff Rd. Suite G-1
- Greenville, SC 29607
- Bus: (803)288-6887
- Fax: (803)288-5680
- BBS: (803)288-6488
-
- Distribution Centers:
-
- Casey Sprangel
- Chameleon
- BBS: (918)492-9186
-
-
- 07/28/92
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- Some computers (e.g. Quadtel Corp. 386-25) tend to hang while playing the
- video clip. To fix this problem, turn your shadow off. You can do this
- by either using BIOS, or in your CONFIG.SYS file use:
-
- device = c:\dos\himem.sys /shadowram:off
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