Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!sean
From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Large animations
Message-ID: <13150@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 89 23:14:40 GMT
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There are quite a few more machines with hard disks than with 8
megs of memory. Perhaps in the future the 8MB demos could be done
in such a way as to run in a small amount of memory, and be read from
the hard disk on the fly. This would make large anims available to a
much larger audience.

I don't know what the machanics are exactly, but I do know that current
controllers and disks ahould be able to keep up if the disk isn't too
fragmented.

Any comments?

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