marcfrick2112 wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone had some ideas to improve playback speed of animations on an AGA Amiga. I have been making animations using Scenery Animator, Vista Pro, and some little programs from Aminet, then converting them to a DCTV Animation....but in most cases the animation plays very slowly, perhaps a just a few frames per second for the most complex ANIM's. I tried converting the Anim's to ANIM7, which helps a bit....
Short of getting a busboard and a PAR card, anyone have ideas to improve playback speed?
My Amiga's specs:
A1200 Power Tower, OS3.9 w/BB 1 and 2, '060/50MHz, 1230 SCSI module, 128MB, 8.5GB HD
Many Thanks,
Something does not seem right here, I read the whole thread and all suggestions, but I can't believe that your 060/50mHz can't run a 3bit, or 4bit (DCTV) display animation at a high frame rate??? I have seen stock A3000 with only 030/25mHz accomplish the same task. It played the entire movie "Back to the Future" from its hard disk using DCTV format. (Could it be that they were using a PAR card and I did not know, or remember it???)
That demonstration was shortly after the original release date of the DCTV and impressed me enough to buy it at $495 which was a lot of money to me at the time.
Send your DCTV animation to me via Pmail and I will try to run it on a few of my Amigas and see what frame rate I get.
