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