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In article <Bu39Mn.2Gx@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Tevonian) writes:
>dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:

>>Amiga was designed from the ground up as a multimedia platform.  That is
>>why with an Amiga, you get direct NTSC video output, nice, smooth
>>animation, and a Multitasking operating system.
>
>I don't believe that you get NTSC output standard in the Amiga 2000 or
>3000 any more. The 1000's had it, but I believe you now need a Toaster
>or DCTV like device to get NTSC. I may be wrong about this (I don't have

The straight composit plug is gone, but since the video frequency
does not need changing, a converter is very cheap, in fact, the 23
pin video connector does have composit signals coming to it.

>The DCTV is 21bit, if I remember correctly and does do a good job of
>rendering NTSC output. The original poster was looking for animation
>straight from Hard Drive. I don't think the DCTVs can do that, at least not
>without some more help (either software or hardware). In my computer
>animation courses last year, we were limted by the 9M RAM in the 3000's we
>were using. 

With the right anim player, I'm certain that it can be done.  One
thing to remember, since the speed of the drive is limiting, the
deltas have to be fairly small (1MB/s drive -> 66K delta at 15fps).
This is of course true of any system.

Rick

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