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From: burger@oldcolo.UUCP (Keith Hamburger)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Functioning JPEG-like systems? (was Re: Real time animation)
Message-ID: <2830b7d4-1001.5graphics-1@oldcolo.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 91 23:31:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.022005.9615@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <41424@cup.portal.com>
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Some other comments on the Amiga system.

There are available transport control programs that allow frame by frame
control of an appropriate VCR.  This can be used in VHS, S-VHS or any other
standard.  This will allow you to animate at the speed of the VCR and not be
limited by the processing speed of the computer.  It will also allow longer 
animations that can be stored on hard disk, WORM or MagnetoOptical disks, all
of which are available for the Amiga.

If you are more interested in doing everything in real time on the
you an get an Amiga 3000 which comes standard with 2MB ram and a 3MHz 68030 w/
68881 coproc, and 50 or 100MB hd.  This should allow you to do anything short
of, and possibly including, 24 bit rendering.  If you need just a little more 
speed there are several options.  One is more memory to allow you to buffer
drives.  Another is to add a 68040 board to an Amiga 3000.  Still another is to 
get a set of transputer boards with a transputer graphics board and port the 
applications necessary from there.

I own an Amiga and used to sell them.  If you are interested in more info I 
would be happy to correspond with you on the subject.


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