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QwikTym in the works
Posted on 19 December 1998, 23:28 GMT
Kirk Meyer is in the process of developing QwikTym for the TI-86. This new program will allow you to view animations on your calculator. Support is planned for black and white movies as well as 4 and 8 levels of gray. Compressed and uncompressed movies will be supported with a major emphasis on decompression speed. Movies will be buffered in order to ensure that movies play smoothly. Because of the already large load on the processor, sound will not be available in QwikTym. Kirk will be able to release the program just as soon as he writes a utility which converts a common movie file format, such as AVI, into a QwikTym movie. Kirk estimates that a movie with 4 levels of gray would be able to last approximately 3 to 4 minutes if you had nothing else on your calculator. A major disadvantage of course, is that movies will use a whole lot of your memory. Additionally QwikTym will support still pictures, which will make it much easier to create and distribute grayscale pictures.
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Re: QwikTym in the works
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Nathan B. Taylor
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Just a few questions and a comment:
1. What will the frame rate be? I could believe a 4 minute movie @ 96 KB that runs at 1fps or 2fps. Will it be closer to ten? Fifteen? Will we be able to customize the rate?
2. As I am not familiar with programming in ASM, what do you think the chances are of having this wonderful program ported to an 89 or a 92? I know Mr. Meyer is busy with the 86 verson, but with the extra memory and faster processor...!
3. Just a comment about people's interest in using this program to put pornography on their calculators: Grow up! What do you want to do, have a little "fun" during Biology? By posting these comments you deminish the value and importance of this wonderful idea.
Nathan B. Taylor
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26 December 1998, 23:23 GMT
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Hello, I have some contradictions.
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Eugene
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188K is what can be used to store editable variables (you know, matrices, expressions, programs, assembly files, OPCODES [like anybody cares]), and 384K is the amount that can be archived. I would say more like 10 minutes. (Still better than the 86, though, huh?)
Anyone found a way to get sound on a 68k calc better than one-channel sound? (damn, it's so MONO-tonous)
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28 December 1998, 08:14 GMT
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When''s it coming out?
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TxdoHawk
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Well, it's been awhile since this announcement
was made. When's this program coming out, Kirk?
Can you give the community some sort of release
date?
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28 December 1998, 17:35 GMT
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