Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!chinet!steinmetz!davidsen 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 Lines: 23 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! -- bill davidsen sixhub \ ihnp4!seismo!rochester!steinmetz -> crdos1!davidsen chinet / ARPA: davidsen%crdos1.uucp@crd.ge.com (or davidsen@crd.ge.com)