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From: jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re: How to make an animation from GIF files ?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 21:23:24 GMT
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In article <91020.154716GELDREIC@FRECP12.BITNET>, GELDREIC@FRECP12.BITNET (David GELDREICH) writes:
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If you convert them to bitmaps, you just copy them out of regular memory into 
video memory or just read them off the hard-disk into video memory if your
hard-disk is fast enough.  As for copying the bitmaps from reg. memory to
video, you could get maybe 8 frames per second on a 25MHz machine in 320x200x256.
But your limited to the number of frames by the amount of regular RAM unless
you use extended or exanded memory.

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