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FliTape

    24-May-94 17:43:14
Sb: #103307-FliTape
Fm: Paul Vaala 73404,1732
To: Theo Dunham 74553,1075
I have used the identical hardware you are using (Sanyo GVR + Stealth 24X + Ani Pro) with the exception that I was also using a Targa 32+ board. How in the world did you manage to connect the Stealth 24X to the video tape recorder (I assume you wanted to do frame-by-frame recording since you mentioned VTRSAN.EXP) Everything I've heard indicated that I needed the Targa board. I experienced great frustration using the Sanyo in combination with FLITAPE, and I'm not sure if the problems lie in Flitape, the drivers, or the vtr's built-in animation controller. When running Flitape with the Targa board everything was by way of the command line (used batch files for this) and the screen remained in text mode. To see the frames of the .flc it was necessary to look at the tv set connected to the Sanyo as a monitor. Occasionally, though not every time, Flitape would simply halt for no apparent reason – tapping the <ESCAPE> key once would bring up a message along the lines of "Continue recording Y/N" and after responding things would work properly (until the next freeze, whenever that might be)