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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 15:21:59 -0400
- From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
- Subject: Making amiga vision take off (as it should, of course)
- In-Reply-To: <15280@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- References: <1992Aug25.163528.3890@news.iastate.edu> <15248@suns6.crosfield.co.uk> <34767@cbmvax.commodore.com>,
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- > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.multimedia: 2-Sep-92 Re:
- > AmigaVision Standalone .. jerry cullingford@crosfi (1017)
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- > Great! Maybe now we'll see AmigaVision take off the way it deserves.
-
- That was in reference to a freely distributable player.
-
- But... I think that this is only half the problem. The other half is
- that you need all this *stuff* to make a neat AV flow. You need
- pictures. You need backgrounds. You need anims. You need sounds. You
- need music.
-
- The only one of those things that is available in large quantity in the
- public domain is music, and even then it's in various mod formats, not
- SMUS. I think that commodore would not be doing itself a disservice if
- it set up a BBS/FTP site filled with all the freely redistributable IFF
- files it could get its hands on, or if it produced inexpensive CDs
- filled with such things (e.g. digitised non-copyrighted photos of
- landscapes, common objects, famous buildings etc, the equivalent of a
- sound effects record, etc etc....). Failing commodore doing this, a
- concerted effort by the net to generate, gather and catalogue such files
- would certainly be a help.
-