Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb20.012514.14936@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 20 Feb 91 01:25:14 GMT References: <637.27b9ca43@vger.nsu.edu> <1991Feb16.033940.25415@sugar.hackercorp.com> <660.27beeecd@vger.nsu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 27 In article <660.27beeecd@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: > In article <1991Feb16.033940.25415@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > I want to wait on the completion of a > > spoken phrase while doing screen-flipping in the background, for example. > > I couldn't *believe* there was no way to do that. > Have you asked Commodore for that ability? You probably want this to work > at full tilt while still using a 68000. :-) :-) The Amiga has this ability. I used it in the first Amiga program I ever wrote: Workbench Lander. Why can't I do it from AmigaVision? > Well there you go. Certainly your idea of "vision" would be a nightmare > to the artsy-craftsy folk who just want to take their artwork and sound > and put it together, and glue it together with some programming. I don't know... they seem to be able to handle Soundscape. Or hypercard. Both of which are far less "user friendly". How about making the separate modules available to folks who want balls-to-the wall capability, so you can use the best parts of AV (like the object editor) without having to have AV loaded? Vision? It's just another "integrated" mega-application. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .