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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Animation programs for IBM PC -- do they exist?
Message-ID: <1074@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 10:30:23 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.1074
Posted: Fri Jan  9 10:30:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 06:00:48 EST
References: <850@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (william E Davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: animation, EGA, IBM, PC

In article <850@uwmacc.UUCP> john@uwmacc.UUCP (John Jacobsen) writes:
>	Are there any programs, commercial or otherwise, that run on the
>IBM PC, utilize the EGA, and do basic animation tasks?  The purpose is to
>create animated 'comic books' for research on perception in young children.
>Any cost, hardware specifics, capability info etc. will be appreciated, and
>if I get enough replies I will, of course, summarize for the benefit of all.

Have you considered using a program like EGApaint to create the parts
and then a QuickBASIC program to do the animation? I got an animated
Christmas card this year, and the ability to go screen=>memory and
memory=>screen is enough to do a *lot* of animation. QB supports the
640x350 resolution in both 16 color and mono modes, and is reasonably
structured (or at least allows reasonable structures).

Disclamer: I am not a heavy BASIC user, I just used QB on an XT to
display fractals on the EGA, which were (obviously) calculated
elsewhere. I may have the only XT in the world with an 3081 and Cray2
for a coprocessor!
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