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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Converting Amiga anims
Keywords: anims animation X
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Date: 3 Oct 90 22:35:06 GMT
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mueller@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Carl Mueller) writes:

> I was just wondering:  there are lots of incredible Amiga animations
> out there.  Many of them I can't see because I don't have enough
> memory.  At school, there are lots of workstations with gobs of
> memory and display capabilities.  How hard would it be to convert
> the Amiga anim & movie-type files so they could be shown on the
> workstations, under X perhaps?  Are there programs that do this
> already?
> 
> Just curious...
> 
> -Carl Mueller (mueller@cs.unc.edu)   sig?  This is my sig!

I doubt is Xwindows, even on a SPARC os R3000 based machine, can keeo up 
with the faster Amiga ANIMs. (i.e. walker II etc.) BTW...does anyone know 
where I can get Walker I or II via ftp? (The 2 meg versions)

-Joseph Hillenburg

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