Re: Apple II lores GR "movies"

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"frank_bklyn" <frank_o_rama@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Martin, glad you liked the movies....
>
> hah. TILA? my favorite is the CASSINI space probe animation. TILA was
> the first one i did and i hadn't got the entire process down yet.... so
> i feel it's a little buggy. CASSINI was the latest one, and i've gotten
> much better at parsing the frame data in Quicktime so that it isn't
> out-of-order, jerky, etc.
>
> Tell me more about the POKE $10 thing. my first impression is that it's
> probably a hoax. but if it's true, i could actually run at like 20
> frames per second or something. interestingly enough, 115k is faster
> than the keyspan USB-serial adapter I have on my G4 will run! (probably
> why i think the apple can't actually go that fast.)
>
> We should take the movie data and use Micheal's synth program to create
> the ultimate A2 Demo! I could probably compress almost 100 frames into
> a 128k machine. take a few frames off for music/sound data. or stream
> the info from a PC for real-time(-ish) video and DAC522 sound! think
> big.
>
> -f-
>
Frank,

    I would suggest to use DHGR for movies.  It is pretty too much memory, 
but it can be done through network cable or serial cable, otherwise hard 
drive with 32MB is good choice.

Bryan Parkoff