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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: xfishtank 2.0 uploaded Message-ID: <hastyCoE2Lv.AqK@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <Co44ys.6Mq@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <2oo41p$38k@u.cc.utah.edu> <JKH.94Apr16204406@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 05:44:19 GMT Lines: 65 In article <JKH.94Apr16204406@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <2oo41p$38k@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: > Anyone have any documentation of AfterDark module formats period? It > would be niftier to make *those* runnable rather than simply converting > the fish files for xfish. Ah, to see Spock mind-melding a Horta on > my X terminal... 8-). > >And the NetAudio extension yelling "Pain! Pain!" :-) > >The technical challenges there would be interesting. Do you know if >Berkeley Systems have done a nice API for audio and graphics from a >module? Instinct says yes since they run AfterDark on everything from >Macintoshes to PeeCees. Don't they also make said API available? A >lot of the modules are contributed, and it would be difficult to write >one without such info. I must take a look at my copy of AfterDark and >possibly ask Berkeley a few questions, after all I'm probably one of >the few people that _BUYS_ it, that should count for something I'd >hope... :-) > Well, I bought after dark and I am not that impressed. Not too sound like the not-invented-here-syndrome but we have an impressive collection set of tools to help us write a tool such as AfterDark. We have netaudio, midi, gmod, X, tcl/tk, imm (image server with multicast support) etc.. somewhere in the net there is a tookit for building games which was the foundation of DOOM just do archie on acksrc.zip. This is from an old posting: -------------------------------------- I have developed a library (called "Karma") which has support for, amongst many other things (ie. networking, data structures), fast display of images. I get frame rates over 10 Hz (for 512*512*8bit images on a Sun IPC without a graphics accelerator), assuming the movie fits into RAM. There is also a tool ready made to display movies. Karma is available on anonymous ftp from: ftp.atnf.csiro.au The directory to look in is: pub/karma Version 1.0 is there now, 1.1 will be out in a few weeks. Regards, Richard Gooch, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au ------------------------------- It would be most definitly cool to see some of these wondeful tools in action.. Hope this helps, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X