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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Real time video animation
Message-ID: <2185@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 88 08:22:08 GMT
References: <159@abvax.UUCP> <38786@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 21
Keywords: hard disk playback, run length, ANIMA II
Summary: Ain't science grand ?

In article <38786@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:

Just a minute. (Chuck McManis) writes ?  I just had dinner with this
guy, and now I'm..... Oh never mind.

>In article <159@abvax.UUCP> gfs@abvax.UUCP (Greg F. Shay) writes:
>>Does anyone know if there are systems/boards/companies for INEXPENSIVE 
>>real-time video animation for, for example, the PC?
>
>Currently, the best price performance for home animation is the Amiga 
>computer. 

>My experience has been about 20 seconds of animation for a 
>1 Meg machine, up to about 4 minutes for an 8 meg machine.

Remember that the _probe sequence_ is a full 5 minutes long, and
runs on a 512K Amiga.

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            "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition"
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