CompuServe Messages

CDXL is *not* necessary on a normal Amiga. It's more a way of storing the data on a CD ROM to get the best throughput for reading the animation as they go. You can get a virtually identical picture by taking a standard ANIM op 5 with a digitized sound attached. At least one ANIM viewer (VIEW, and probably others) has no trouble displaying such things. The synchronization of sound to animation is fairly trivial as long as your animation is guarenteed to run full speed. By limiting the size of the animation, this is no problem. (In fact, I recently read an article on synchronizing sound with animation using Amigavision…) . What you *really* want is something that will synchronize an ANIM with sound even if the ANIM is NOT capable of playing at full speed. CDXL won't do that. . On the other shoe… Ask yourself what exactly you'll use this for? And what you'll use to make these movies? There's been an awful lot of hype about Quicktime but I have yet to see much practical use for the average user. They may get programs which use it for specific purposes (training, etc.) but all of that can be done *without* Quicktime on an Amiga with little difficulty if desired by developers. Quicktime is kindof necessary on the Mac, though, because otherwise ANY sort of animation is a royal pain in the you-know-what. It's a nice novelty, and finally gives Mac users some animation capability, but nothing to really worry about. .–>Steve Bennett