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From: prf@otter.hpl.hp.com (Paul Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Q/A
Message-ID: <28050006@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 09:45:03 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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>  1) Realizing that the SMUS format is fairly limited, is there an
>     alternative way to play music.  

I've tried playing Med2.13 tunes using  the execute ICON to fire a 
batch file. This works up to the point where I want to stop the 
music. I've not had much luck so far in doing it cleanly. I'd like to 
see a ST to SMUS file converter if such a thing exists as it would 
be nicer to let AV handle all the sound channels. 

>  2) Reading the Commodore spec sheet for AS250 (AmigaVision), it states
>    that runtime modules are available.  Does this mean they're being
>    worked on?  

The runtime facilities provided are nothing of the sort, its just a 
file moving facility. Without a true run time compiler AV is of limited use
for commercial development, just a good presentation and demo tool. 
I would hope that someone is working on these issues or AV will just not
be that competitive, it is sufficiently hard to code that some incentive
needs to be provided to encourage use.