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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ease of Amiga Vision (Review, sort of...)
Keywords: AmigaVision
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.131149.19112@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 13:11:49 GMT
Sender: George L. Skank
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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     Well, I finally got around to test driving my copy of Amiga Vision today.
WOW is all I can say!  Talk about smooth!  Talk about easy to use!  The manual
seems to be fairly well written and works well with the tutorial.  After
about 10 pages of reading, with illustrations and two tutorial flows, I was
ready to put together an AmigaVision flow of my own, it's that easy!  I have
been playing the public domain Star Trek game for a few days now, it was
written using The Director, and it would seem to me that The Director must not
be completly Workbench 2.02 compatible as the game will occasionally Guru and
it never releases all of it's resources when it finishes, so you have to
reboot.  Anyway, I needed some files for my flow so I grabbed them from the
Star Trek game, and in less than 10 minutes I had all the sound effects for the
game in a simple flow that would sequentially play all the sounds, elapsed
time: less than 1 hour!  This program does all the work for you!  And it
multitasked well too, during the entire developement process I had Handshake
downloading the pbmplus.zoo file.  No problems whatsoever, AmigaVision
replayed digitized sounds and voices flawlessly.  The Star Trek opening music
was too long to fit into memory with Handshake but AmigaVision politely
informed me, rather than locking the system or Guruing.  It would be so easy
to rewrite the Star Trek game using AmigaVision I'm tempted to try it just
as a learing exercise.  This is one powerfull program, but don't take my word
for it, try it for yourselves.  :)

                                 --George

P.S.:  Only Amiga(Vision) makes it possible!  ;)