CompuServe Messages

Charles, re being surprised that nobody's bothered to come up with a 'moving uncompressed frames' mode of animation. There are people who have come up with page flipping by copying/displaying from Fast ram to Chip ram. The Director, for instance. However, the xfer rate is just not up to your speed standards (for hires/overscan pics, at least). As mentioned here before, several of us theorize that the major stumbling block is the Chip ram contention from the custom chips. And the larger your amiga screen being displayed (and remember that your HAM-E images are actually 704×220 to the Amiga system) the more Chip ram contention you are gonna have. So, not only are you trying to move a large amount of data per second ( >1meg ), but the custom chips are locking out Chip ram a fair amount of the time. If your anim will fit (uncompressed) in under 2meg, then I'd recommend getting the SuperFat (2meg) Agnus and addon board (forgot name) that allows use in the A2000. Then, using the Director you can *really* fly by page flipping (I mean blurring fast) by just pointing to different Chip ram buffers each time. I've done several anims where I put the 10-15 most changing images of the anim in Chip ram buffers, and stick the remainder in a compressed anim form, and just chain it all together via the Director. Good luck. –jp–seattle–