Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!aplcen!jhunix!ins_adjb From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multi-tasking Message-ID: <2261@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:33:15 GMT References: <30339@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1426@novavax.UUCP> Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) Distribution: usa Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 24 In article <1426@novavax.UUCP> suther@novavax.UUCP (Scot M. Sutherland) writes: >I thought that Micro Illusions might have stumbled upon the idea >that programs can be made in modules for the Amiga, and the >modules sold separately in their Photon series. However, I still >haven't figured out how to punch Photon Paint into the background >so that I can use what I just created with Photon Cell Animator. Well, they really have gotten a lot of things right with their new package, MUSIC-X. It has some really beautiful multitasking. You can do all the usual mundane things like change the titles of sequences, save sequences to disk, change various settings, etc, all while the music is playing, without interrupting the timing of the music. There is also an "official" method for making separate module programs and using them from MUSIC-X. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Systems Administrator barrett@cs.jhu.edu (128.220.13.4) | | Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 | | E-mail addresses: ARPANET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | BITNET: ins_adjb@jhuvms.bitnet | | UUCP: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP noog | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////