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From: timm@public.BTR.COM (Timothy M. Maffett  timm@btr.com)
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Subject: Re: AmiExpo...quick review...
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Date: 16 Oct 90 20:04:20 GMT
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In article <1990Oct15.043855.2900@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
>
>	Both ICD and GVP had demos going with real time playback of anims
>and sound from hard disk. They were both completely bypassing the Amiga's
>filesystem, however. Note that it's really not that tough to display
>graphics in real time from a fast SCSI HD (I believe they were both using
>Wren VI drives) as long as you don't have to worry about a file system

   I don't know about ICD but GVP was using a Quantum 170S for the replay of
the Roger R anim.  I was surprised because of 1) I would have thought that 
the anim was bigger than 170M and 2) I would not have thought that the
Quantum 170 would be fast enough.  BUT, I saw it in the drive with my
own eyes ;).

>and can just dump raw data from the drive into the Amiga. (BTW, the
>Preditor animation was about 15 minutes! That was a big, fast drive!) :-)
>
>     -Bill Seymour                                            billsey@agora

-tim