Amigavision?
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Mark,
What is Amigavision and what are some of the competing products that it is
"way ahead of". I work mainly with PC's but enjoy learning about the
technologies of the Amiga and Macs. I've seen a program domonstrated for
the Macs called MacroMind Director that encorporates animation with video
and sound for developing multimedia presentations. Is this what
Amigavision is about? Thanks for some enlightenment.
Pat B.
Pat:
Yes, that is what AmigaVision is. Most important, it has a very slick
interface that permits you to do all that simply by moving icons around and
filling in dialogue boxes. Most of the dialogue box fill-in is also
automated for you, using built-in file requestors, lists of options you can
select, etc.
So, to use AmigaVision, you use visual symbols laid out in a grid to chart
the flow of action/reaction, branches, etc., and then, by clicking on the
icons, you customize what it does using the dialogue boxes. Very nice,
very easy for non-programmers, and quite fast.
Also, you can create sub-routines and sections this way, and then
"compress" those routines (now debugged) into single icon symbols for ease
of following the flow and logic of your application.
?|^] Ray Lewis
Indeed it is this and more Patrick,
AmigaVision provides a *easy to use* interface between the programmer and
the application. It has built in support for laser disks, animation,
stills, digitized sound, text and forms handling and has a built in
database manager (dbase 3 compatible).
This makes AmigaVision a perfect vehicle for doing informational kiosks,
interactive databases, etc.
We (Video Computer Resources) are currently developing a multimedia
presentation for Republic Pictures. This system when complete (and
accepted by them) will allow their customers to search for specific movies
in the Republic catalog, see a synopsis, and see a clip from the movie!
All the tools to do this application reside within AmigaVision.
-mark=