Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague)]

jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>>:
>>: I have a $C2 animation that is 3.7 megabytes (yes, 3.7MB), it is
>>: a full 320x200 grey scale animation of flying through and above
>>: a canyon. (fractals?)  The problem is that I am not sure if
>>: enough people out there can view this thing (I have 6 megs on my
>>:
>>	I think a bigger problem is whether we can get it off cco to our
>>IIGS.  Well, I know I can at least but I also know that some people like
>>Thye Chean have to copy the file from their machine to floppies before
>>transferring it to their IIGS; and how do you segment 3.7 MB into 800K
>>floppies??
>>:

>Yeah, I knew this would be a problem for many users. (the inital
>debate was to lower the picture quality, or block out the full
>320x200 screen by making black borders around the edges, so the
>resulting animation would be smaller.  But I decided not to compromise,
>the GS deserves the best!  However, if there are enough requests for
>the reduced version, let me know, and I'll do it!)

Why not just make a bunch of, say, 500k BinSCII files for it, or 800k
binscii files so they fit on a disk....

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