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From: dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: What's news with Movie1.0??
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.040611.21600@cunews.carleton.ca>
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Jun18.013255.4644@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 04:06:11 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.013255.4644@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jsibley@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James Sibley) writes:
>
>   Recently I have attempted to use the program Movie1.0 by Eric Graham (I
>think..)  You know the one that is recommended for making/showing animations
>with DKBTrace files, etc..  Anyway, when I try to use it to play some anims
>I got from some ftp site, it horribly crashes.  And I mean horrible..  One
>of those crashes that makes you shudder inside thinking that you have gone too
>far this time..  Anyway, I have an Amiga 2500/30 with 5 Megs and right before
>it crashes it provides the epithet: "Unable to open window."  What this means
>I do not know but it is very frustrating and I fear the use of this program 
>because of its behavior.  

I've had this happen if my system isn't set up the way that Movie likes.
If you use "morerows", turn it off - it will crach Movie.  I even turn off
interlaced Workbench just to be on the safe side - it may actually work
with an interlaced Workbench, but I don't trust it.

Good Luck.

David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca