Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.introduction:684 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:1881 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!unizh!amiga!simeon From: simeon@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Peter W. Simeon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Movie doesn't work on a 3000? Summary: There will be a solution! Keywords: Movie Animation Message-ID: <1991Jun25.131813.16278@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: 25 Jun 91 13:18:13 GMT References: <1991Jun22.023322.467@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Sender: root@ifi.unizh.ch (System PRIVILEGED Account) Organization: Informatik Club der Universitaet Zuerich (Amiga group) Lines: 41 In article <1991Jun22.023322.467@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >OK, I think, I'll start collecting a few of these neat animations for my >Amiga and have more stuff to wow people with. So I grab Movie 1.3 and a few >anims. No dice, they won't even open the window on my 3000/16. Rats. Next >try, movie 2.0... > >Does movie work under 2.0? I know I've only got about 1 MB of effective RAM, >but the anims I'm trying to run are advertised as running in a 1 MB Amiga. >Hmmm, I thinks. Let's try booting under 1.3.2... > >No dice. OK, folks, how do I get these anims displayed? Gotta be on my 3000: >my 1000 has only 512K... The Movie is not compatible with 2.0. It was optimized for speed and does not open a screen with OpenScreen(). It's a low level hack, which even crashes when you press Left Amiga-M. The Movie was written by Eric Graham. As far as I know, he no longer writes software for the Amiga and Byte by Byte now sells only Mac versions of Sculpt 4D. I don't think that we will ever get updates. So was is only way to do something against it: A friend of mine disassembled Movie to find out how it works and wrote a completely new Animation player which can play Anim 5 and Movie format. This Player will probably be available as Public Domain, but we have to fix some bugs first. The Movie format is up to three times faster than Anim 5 with complex Animations. We think this format is very suitable for Animations with 25/30 fps and we will try to further optimize it. We usually convert all our Anim 5 Animations to Movie because of the speed. We think that other companies should continue to support the Movie (or may be later an extended Movie) Format. We would like to see a Movie support in AmigaVision. We could publish the Movie format and some sample source code, but I don't know if this is legal or not, because Byte by Byte has never published their format. We also considered to disassemble Sculpt 4D to fix some 2.0 bugs. This seems to be the only possibility to get things fixed in old (no longer supported) Software. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Simeon // cbmehq!cbmswi!mighty!astra!peter@cbmvax.commodore.com \X/ peter%astra%mighty%cbmswi@cbmvax.commodore.com