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andrel wrote:
> The Amiga was the de facto standard for television quality broadcasting,
> as many have also mentioned.
Really? De facto? I mean, I know it was used by a few people, but I
didn't think it had reached the level of "standard". (But obviously, I
don't work in TV.)
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Chambers wrote:
> Every Amiga XXX had the exact same performance characteristics.
In a way, this ended up being the Amiga's doom; as soon as you modify an
Amiga in any way, lots of software breaks (most especially games). Don't
get me wrong, the software that follows the rules works just fine - but
why ask the OS to do something when you already "know" what the hardware is?
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>> OK, well that's pretty weird. I wonder why they suddenly changed it to
>> 48 kHz then...?
>
> Well don't forget, that there was nothing widespread before DVD that
> recorded films in a digital format. For some reason 48 kHz was pretty
> standard in the music recording industry, even after CD came along with
> it's lower sampler rate. I guess in the film industry they stuck with
> 48 kHz (as films were obviously never put onto CDs), but then when DVD
> came along it made sense to have a 48 kHz soundtrack if everything was
> recorded at 48 kHz anyway.
Well CDs use the obscure rate of 44.1 kHz. Not 44 kHz, but 44.1 kHz.
Apparently this is due to some historical reasoning that I forget now. I
guess DVD uses 48 kHz for a similar reason...
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I can see banding in grayscale POV-Ray renders. I checked with an image
> editor and there is no color level skipped. So I see the difference between
> rgb(42,42,42) and rgb(43,43,43).
Hooookay then... Apparently I'm blind. :-P
(Now my laptop? That only has 12-bit display with hardware dithering. Do
you have ANY IDEA how ANNOYING that is??)
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>> Mmm, interesting. I never had any problems with it.
>
> Oops, my bad. I was thinking of "Extreme 3D," by Macromedia. That's the
> one. It's horrible. I don't think I've ever crashed a program so many
> times!
Ah, OK. Not heard of that one...
>> Now Imagine 3D was another matter. You had to add objects to the scene
>> in a certain order (!!) in order for them to reflect. As in, the
>> reflective objects had to be added last. Any object added after the
>> reflective one would cast no reflections. God only knows what happens
>> if you want recursive reflections...
>
> I'm glad there are so many choices these days. I don't ever want to
> resort to using faked raytracing effects, unless of course, I'm making a
> video game or something.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Imagine 3D was quite a nice program. Just don't
expect reflection or refraction to work properly! Everything else works
though...
>> Actually, if anybody knows of a good freeware software synthesizer and
>> sequencer that's easy to set up (ideally zero-install) and runs on
>> Windoze, I'd be interested. Sometimes when you're using a strange PC,
>> it's nice to be able to just throw out a few bars of music using only
>> what you have on your USB stick...
>
> Have you tried searching for browser-based apps in that category? It's a
> slim chance you'll find one, but it's worth trying.
Yeah, or maybe I just need to sit down and write something in Java... ;-)
[I'd use Haskell, but I can't get the bindings for libSDL to work. At
least, not on Windoze. Works fine on Linux...]
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> Well CDs use the obscure rate of 44.1 kHz. Not 44 kHz, but 44.1 kHz.
> Apparently this is due to some historical reasoning that I forget now.
I suspect it has to do with syncing with pre-existing video signals.
> I guess DVD uses 48 kHz for a similar reason...
48 kHz was already standard in recording studios on DAT tapes, and I assume
it was also used for movie sound. So that is why DVD used 48 kHz, but where
that frequency came from in the first place I don't know. 48 kHz is quite a
nice round number, so I guess they just made it up.
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> (in my opinion, the CLI *still* has plus points; but you're wrong about that
> specific feature)
...such as being able to design your own particle system? ;-)
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scott wrote:
>> Of course, using a point-and-click interface, it's not possible to do
>> POV-Ray style tricks like positioning a sphere exactly at the end of a
>> cylinder...
>
> Of course it is.
>
> You've never really used a modeller have you?
OK, I rephrase: Real3D didn't have this feature. :-P
(BTW... Do you know of any real modellers that do? I realise
theoretically somebody could make such a thing, but do you know of any
real programs that do this?)
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>> I can see banding in grayscale POV-Ray renders. I checked with an image
>> editor and there is no color level skipped. So I see the difference
>> between
>> rgb(42,42,42) and rgb(43,43,43).
>
> Hooookay then... Apparently I'm blind. :-P
It's easier to see the difference on brighter monitors in darker rooms.
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scott wrote:
> Oh I loved flashback, I think it was one of the first games that I
> actually spent a long continuous amount of time playing until I finished
> it. But I got stuck right at the end (I think I said that before in
> here and someone told me what I missed).
Amiga Format gave away a coverdisk containing almost all of level 1 of
Flashback. After spending a week completing it, it was perfectly clear
that I had to own this game.
My dad eventually purchased the ECS version. I've never played the AGA
version, but it seems some of the cut sequences were much longer and
more detailed.
Unfortunately, attempting to play the ECS version on an AGA machine
results in the audio and video getting out of sync. (Apparently it's
timed according to how fast the graphics can be drawn, so on a more
powerful machine, the graphics draws faster and gets ahead of the
music.) Bit of a pity. Oh, and it doesn't run on my Amiga with its
updated ROM either...
That was a damned fine game. I adored the graphics of the opening level,
although many of the other levels were much less graphically
interesting. The final level was just awesome.
I don't suppose you even have the game any more, but where did you get
stuck?
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