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- From: kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague)
- Subject: Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:38:02 GMT
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- jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
- >>:
- >>: I have a $C2 animation that is 3.7 megabytes (yes, 3.7MB), it is
- >>: a full 320x200 grey scale animation of flying through and above
- >>: a canyon. (fractals?) The problem is that I am not sure if
- >>: enough people out there can view this thing (I have 6 megs on my
- >>:
- >> I think a bigger problem is whether we can get it off cco to our
- >>IIGS. Well, I know I can at least but I also know that some people like
- >>Thye Chean have to copy the file from their machine to floppies before
- >>transferring it to their IIGS; and how do you segment 3.7 MB into 800K
- >>floppies??
- >>:
-
- >Yeah, I knew this would be a problem for many users. (the inital
- >debate was to lower the picture quality, or block out the full
- >320x200 screen by making black borders around the edges, so the
- >resulting animation would be smaller. But I decided not to compromise,
- >the GS deserves the best! However, if there are enough requests for
- >the reduced version, let me know, and I'll do it!)
-
- Why not just make a bunch of, say, 500k BinSCII files for it, or 800k
- binscii files so they fit on a disk....
-
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