Subject: Re: MP3 decoder?
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Date: 21 Aug 1999 08:11:41 GMT
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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> ByteWorks makes a morphing program for the IIGS, believe
>> it or not!  No, the morphing sequences it generates are not
>> quicktime.  They are PaintWorks format.  Surprisingly, the
>> PaintWorks format supports the IIGS 256 color mode!
>> 
>> The program is called Quick Click Morph.  I think Mike
>> Westerfield might still have some sample morph sequences
>> on his web site.  He morphed his daughter into his cat with
>> it.
>
>Hmmm. Cool. And it generates a picture sequence, not just
>single picture? or....

It generates a picture sequence and then gives the option
of saving them as a PaintWorks movie.  The PaintWorks
format uses a form of RLE compression (not nearly as
effective as the type of compression in Quicktime, but it
is fast).

See http://www.hypermall.com/byteworks ByteWorks
for more information.

According to a review of the program, it also allows the
generation of just one frame of the sequence, in case
all you want is a "blend" of two images.

>> Also, apparently it is possible to convert some quicktime
>> video to IIGS format (although limited by available memory).
>
>What program allows this conversion?

I think the idea is to extract the frames of the Quicktime
movie on the PC or Mac, take them to the IIGS, and put
them back together again in IIGS format.

See the following for example of such a conversion:
http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/upl98/Dec98/Su27.txt

>> Gemulator Pro is the most complete Mac emulator I've seen.
>> Maybe that's why it is good enough to sell.
>
>Probably. There have been mac emulators sold through history, but most of
>them used a plug-in card with mac roms on it. Gemulator can use it but
>does not require it, correct? I wonder why that wrote that in there...

Gemulator Pro comes with the option of a ROM card for
PC users without Macs.  They provide the ROMs.

You can get the program without the ROM card, but
then you'd need a ROM dump to file from a Mac.  This
is like what Bernie II to the Rescue, XGS, and KEGS
does.

Whether or not to get the ROM card depends, of course
on whether or not you already have a Mac.  ;-)