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Gasp! ANIM speed

    08-Jul-91 02:24:11
Sb: #10024-Gasp! ANIM speed
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Charles Blaquiere 76046,1756
I'd bet that there were a few who have tried to achieve 'real-time' performance animation on the Amiga before this (me, for instance) 🙂 … but have always run up against the same old roadblocks…. amount of change and image size vs. S->P->E–>E—>D—->. That is why most people use the lores screens for anims; the same changes per frame take up less room than the same thing in hires, hence the speed/size improves. Fast hires animation is possible, but it's not easy. nd HAM-E is deceiving, since *you* are thinking 320 horizontal, but the amiga is thinking 640 horizontal. Just not possible to have a lores HAM-E animation, I'm afraid. Between the hires screen of HAM-E, the more colors, and how it encodes those colors you've gotta a processing nightmare for the machine. Best of luck with your anim. Upload? –jp–seattle–