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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Need Source For IFF Pager
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 13:12:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 13:12:45 1987
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In article <1305@ihlpm.ATT.COM> (Steven R Ringwood) writes:
>The thought is to use a control file, that associates a given
>note with a given picture.  When that note comes over the MIDI
>interface the picture would be displayed.

One of the things I like about SoundScape is the ability to add modules
to the system fairly easily (See Amazing Computing V2, #5, pp 27). 
Soundscape takes care of the MIDI stuff for you, and you can just sit
and wait for the Note events for displaying a picture. All of the 
IFF readers I have used (including uShow which is probably the fastest)
are pretty slow. You might want to preload some images into fast ram and
allocate enough chip ram for a picture buffer. Then when the note arrives
you could move the picture into the buffer really quickly. (About .04
seconds for a low res picture using mov.w	(An)+,(Am)+ ). 
 

--Chuck McManis
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