| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 2 Aug 2000 at 00:18:32 |
| Subject: | Re: Old demos (esp Juggler) |
Hello John
On 28-Jul-00, John Marchant wrote:
>> The Juggette Ones by Eric Schwartz however are a different story. One is a
>> straight forward IFF animation, but the other two are in MovieSetter format
>> and the old player program refuses to play on my 1200 setup whatever I try.
>> AFAIK the only program to play this format is the supplied player. here it
>> does a yellow Guru and the player tells me I've got low memory, hmmmm 2mb
>> chip and 32mb fast... I don't think so. Though they work fine on my old
>> A500plus.
>
> That's right. The old version of MoviePlayer would often complain
> of "low memory". The solution was to change your Overscan screen
> prefs to _no_ overscan. Set this with "Use" rather than "Save", so
> you can return to original settings. I haven't met the yellow guru
> but maybe it's part of the same problem.
Hey, thanks for that tip, worked a treat.... well almost, MoviePlayer decided
to hang when I quit the animation. But at least I can view it now.
> I came across a more recent Schwartz anim which included an updated
> Movieplayer, but I can't remember which anim it was with and I can't
> find MP on Aminet. This version behaved properly.
MovieSetter was given away on CU-Amiga a few years back, twice iirc one even
came with a book on the cover, maybe the newer version of the player is
included. I'll see if I can dig it out.
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