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- From: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Alpha workstation plays anims
- Message-ID: <104805@bu.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 01:51:02 GMT
- References: <ByuC31.Fsw@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <Bz3w4y.KHz@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
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- Reply-To: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
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- In article <Bz3w4y.KHz@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:
- >Markus Illenseer (markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) wrote:
- >> In article <1992Dec4.153753.4363@memstvx1.memst.edu> cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >> > I saw a new Digital alpha workstation. They had amiga anims playing on the
- >> > screen. Some how they have written and anim player for the workstation.
- >>
- >> Not 'they'. I think they used 'xanim', which is PD and can play
- >> .fli and iff-anims on X11.
- >>
- >
- >Thanks for the tip. I now have an anim of a walking lemming running on my
- >HP-UX workstation. Note that I am running it an HP9000/360 (that's a 68030
- >running at 25MHz) and any anims which are very complex run slow. Kind gives
- >me a greater appreciation of my A3000.
- >
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- If you're running X, keep in mind that slight bit of overhead
- involved. :) I'm not sure what the implications are of running an anim
- "native" to the Amiga on different display hardware (i.e. display time
- for iff file types, etc.), but seeing anims under xanim on a
- DECstation 5000's with 30-40 MHz R3000's leads me to believe there's
- considerable overhead all around - with a couple heavy background
- processes, of course :) Still, considering what I've seen on my
- 68000 A500...
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- keith
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