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From: gee@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Animation Program info
Message-ID: <3760@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 21 Nov 90 15:12:01 GMT
References: <1281@iceman.jcu.oz>
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
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In article <1281@iceman.jcu.oz> glmwc@iceman.jcu.oz (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
>I'm looking for an Animation program for my MacII.
>My requirements are that it should be able to do
>60 frames/sec animation and realtime scaling with
>simultaneous sound. Does anyone have any suggestions? 
>
>Matthew Crowd

Another computer?

More seriously, for a machine that is supposed to have such wonderful graphics
abilities, the Mac is dreadfully lacking in terms of graphics speed.  Every
try to write an animation program on a machine without double buffering?  I
want my SGI Iris back!

A while ago, the author of Solarian posted an article on implementing 
double buffering on Macs in assembler.  Does anyone have this article
around?  I (foolishly) didn't save it, and I've run into a wall trying to
implement some smooth animation routines.

BTW: you might want to check out MACWORLD, the June 1989 issue entitled
"Film, Video, Animation", which contains a review of a number of animation
programs.

Tom.

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