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From: bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan)
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Subject: Re: Large animations
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Date: 8 Nov 89 20:38:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: sean@ms.uky.edu's message of 6 Nov 89 23:14:40 GMT

.> 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.

Well, there is a PD program out there called DiskAnim.  Basically
it will play anims off of a hard disk.  I haven't tried it yet,
because I don't have an anim that big.