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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  AMIGA
Message-ID: <3613.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 11 May 91 09:28:46 GMT
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> In article <1991May8.062658.14796@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

> >simply about getting it into memory. Do compressed ANIMs lend
> >themselves to off-disk loading? I hadn't thought it would be as

    Yes. Or they do on some PClone systems (Autodesk Animator .FLI
    animations, hokey though they usually are, play back ok from HD).

    The compression in the .FLI files is not significantly different
    to the various ANIM options, and we can certainly match or better
    their IO rates between disk and video, so it must be possible.

    I've not seen an Amiga animation player even try to play off HD,
    though. There must be less motivation when we don't face the
    ridiculous 64K segment thing, and 640K limit (all these 64s...).

    Is there such a thing floating around on ftp sites?
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