This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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PS/2 graphic drivers
Message #54728
I'm running AniPro on an IBM PS/2 laptop (no graphics card). This PC supports VGA with 256 colors. I have only been able to get 320 by 200 resolution. Is there a way to get higher resolution?
More inks for AniPro
Message #54727
Is there a way for users to create inks?
#Stretch Ink
Message #54726
Is there a POCO statement for "stretching" a cel?
Library Contributions
Message #53184
I have just retired from IBM and plan to use some of my time sharing what I have learned about AniPro. Most of my contributions will be of value only to AniPro users. For example, I will be uploading soon a flic that describes how I used AniPro features to…
IPAS
Message #52734
What is IPAS? (I am only familiar with ANIPro.)
VSCREN.POE
Message #52689
I downloaded VSCREN.POE. What should I be able to do now that I couldn't do before?
Where is "STRETCH"
Message #52688
Is STRETCH (a cel) available in the POCO language?
#AAPro
Message #52266
For onion skin, I have tried "glass" ink and "merge" ink and agree that 24-bit color is needed in Animator. I have also tried "trails" and didn;t find it very useful. It could be improved if it would support overlaying a user-specified number of frames. I've never bothered comparing the…
#DOS 6
Message #51060
I just got a new PC and w/DOS 6. I would like to install DBLSPACE. I would first like to hear experiences other AniPro users have had. I read the AUTODESK document regarding DOS 6. Regarding the statement: Customers using the DoubleSpace feature of MS-DOS 6.0 should direct Autodesk products'…
#Capturing descriptions
Message #50860
Is there a way to capture (using WINCIM) the descriptions of the items? (not the GIF itself, for example, but the description of the GIF).
Compressing FLCs
Message #50170
Two 321 Meg hard drives used to be able to contain files from the many applications I use. It took me about 2 years before they got full for the first time. When I started using AniPro, I found it necessary to remove my other applications, and associated data files,…
#Miscellaneous
Message #48758
Hi Martin. I didn't realize that messages would dissapear so quickly. It took me a while to sign-on again, and don't know if you responded to my last message (repeated below with a couple of typos corrected). I am taking "early retirement" from IBM on July 30. After that I…
#Educational Contribution
Message #48632
I am trying to help a professor at a local university equip a graduate computer science class with some software. The class is a follow-on to a more theoretical course in Multimedia Systems. This course will offer extensive hands on in designing multimedia and also in analyzing multimedia performance( since…
Removing Bakground
Message #45675
Recently I had to create an animation of a two car race (one car symbolized IBM's new printed-circuit technology, the other an older technology). I decided to extract the car in E:\\\\ s (from the AniPro CD), to use in my animation. To remove the background from that animation, I…
Removing Bakground
Message #45674
I have just finished creating an animation of a two-car race (one car symbolized IBM's new printed-circuit technology, the other an older technology). I used the car in \FLICS\FLC\3D\RACECUBH.FLC, from the AniPro CD, in my animation (I don't have 3D software to do my own!). It took me a while…
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Portable flics?
Message #45397
Is 640×480 trickier, or is it sometimes impossible? I am using WINCIM, as I write this, at 1280 x 1024 in gorgeous color on an IBM 6091 23" monitor. But, I have been relegated to use AniPro at 320×200 (biggest "virtual pixels" I've ever seen). Nik already tried to help…
Nik, Will AAPro run under OS/2 2.1?
Thanks for the praise. However, when I described the hint yesterday, after finishing a 20 hr/day project, I made a couple of mistakes. EDGE does cycle through the colors; and, the colors drawn to force cycling, are all drawn in just one frame. The situation I was trying to describe…
You might want to use color cycling with SEPARATE, for example. That would be useful in cases where color changes from frame to frame. Examples: – clouds, as the sun sets – hair, as it is gradually dyed – skin, as it sunburns – a tomato, as it ripens -…
#Resolution
Message #44597
I have an unsupported video card. Is there a way to run Animator under windows at higher than 320×200 by letting Windows handle the video.
#Color Cycling Hint
Message #44559
A tool such as "EDGE" doesn't cycle colors when applied. I wanted to EDGE several time cycling through the colors in a cluster I wanted to use a macro that would re-apply EDGE many times. I got around this limitation by including the drawing of a point in an unused…
#Wish List
Message #44558
Wish list: – capability to specify color cycling for any tool – to be able to specify cel frame number for each of the tiles in a tiling – to be able to assign macros to keys – recursive macros – to be able to increment to next color in…
#hardware
Message #44129
I am planning to purchase a new PC that I will use with Windows and Animator Pro. I want to have fast graphics and lots of colors. Any recomendation of graphic cards good for both Windows and animator?
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