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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMs - A Little Reality Please
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.120704.5168@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 19 Dec 90 12:07:04 GMT
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In article <4710021@hpfcdq.HP.COM> olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen) writes:
>Instead of saying "nothing today uses this technology" why not ask "what can
>you do with this that was impossible before?"

At first I expect to see intro sequences that run for 5 minutes with
HAM ray-traced animation with huge soundtracks.  It will take a while
for people to begin to use the huge amount of data.  Expect to see
megabytes of data used for generating entire worlds in games, and
all represented in 3d.  Games where you can hook into a mapping system
and view the world in 2d from above, with zoom etc.  The games are
going to be incredible, and other applications will be amazing too.  I
have already seen an ad for pysgnosis asking for more programmers to
develop for CDTV.  I think C= should send them a copy of Randell Jesups
recent flame about game programming in comp.sys.amiga.tech and make them write
it out 1000 times before giving them a development kit!!

>John M. Olsen, Graphics Technology Division  (303)229-6746
>olsen@hpfcjo.HP.COM, olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM
>Hewlett-Packard, Mail Stop 74, 3404 E. Harmony Road, Ft Collins, CO 80525

Regards,

-- 
Matt Crowd       Amiga Man
Email Address    glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au