Anim3D-14

Short:        OS legal vector movie player. KS30, 020+
Author:       mgeorge@cix.compulink.co.uk (Michael George)
Uploader:     mgeorge cix compulink co uk (Michael George)
Type:         gfx/misc
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Anim3D is a real-time vector movie player for Workbench 3 machines. It has
three main features which I think most Amiga software (and demos) should
have nowadays:

1)  It is extremely friendly to the OS and multitasks properly; I've
    played animations whilst downloading files on the modem and been
    playing a tracker module so I think I can safely say this  :-)

2)  Animations are played at the SAME speed whatever the machine is...
    slower machines just have a lower frame update rate. This works fine
    because the display is double-buffered (as you'd expect) so there are
    no half drawn screens to be seen.

3)  It can use any of the display modes available on the machine;
    the same image is displayed on the screen whatever the resolution.
    This allows those lucky A4000/040 owners to display anims in mega hi-res
    while running at the same frame rate that an A1200 might run in lo-res.

It also makes use of a special dithering method that I worked out which
gives the appearance of more shades of each colour without slowing screen
rendering down. This does however require more chip memory than normal.

It requires Kickstart 3.0, ECS or AGA chipset and a 68020 or higher.

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Michael W. George                   __  ///                *** AmIgA PoWeR ***
Registered Amiga Developer          \\\///         mgeorge@cix.compulink.co.uk
Producer of CoolWare!                \XX/             mike@genghis.demon.co.uk