peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) (06/22/91)
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...
--
Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) (06/24/91)
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... > >No dice. OK, folks, how do I get these anims displayed? Gotta be on my 3000: >my 1000 has only 512K... I have never had a problem with movie not working under 1.3 on my 3000, but I was only able to get it to work under 2.0 by setting the screen overscan preference to have no overscan at all. -- bruce@zuhause.mn.org
joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) (06/24/91)
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... Movie doesn't like overscan, and it takes its screen information from the Workbench screen. Try USEing standard overscan when using movie. -- ========================================================================== Joe O'Hara || Disclaimer: I didn't say that! Commodore Electronics Ltd || Product Assurance || "I never lie when I have sand in my shoes." Systems Evaluation Group || - Geordi LeForge, Star Trek TNG ==========================================================================
peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) (06/24/91)
In article <22642@cbmvax.commodore.com> joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) writes: > Movie doesn't like overscan, and it takes its screen information from the > Workbench screen. Try USEing standard overscan when using movie. So, then, are there any better movie players out there that can handle Sculpt movies? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
simeon@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Peter W. Simeon) (06/25/91)
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