Short:    Eric Schwartz' Still Alive animation playable on AOS & MOS
Uploader: chrisly(!)platon42.de (Chris Hodges)
Author:   Eric Schwartz (Animation), Johnathan Coulton (Music), Ellen Mclain (Voice), Chris Hodges (Playback)
Type:     gfx/anim
Version:  V1.2 (22-Jun-08)
Requires: AHI

Introduction
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Eric Schwartz release a tribute to the Amiga called  "Still  Alive"  a  few
months ago on YouTube. There's also an MP4 version of it, but so far, there
was no Amiga native playback even though the animation itself is  not  very
demanding  (320x200  in 4 colours). The main problem was sync'ing the video
with the music -- especially when the  frame  rate  of  the  video  is  not
exactly  50  Hz  or  60  Hz.  Latter  also needed a playback routine of the
original mp3, with less CPU demand (otherwise only 68060th would be able to
play it back).

This is an Amiga  and  MorphOS  compatible  playback  with  ECS/AGA/P96/CGX
support.  The  audio has been converted from 44 KHz 16 Bit stereo to 22 KHz
16 Bit mono with ADPCM encoding as a compromise. A 68020+ should be enough,
but this has not been tested.

The playback needs AHI, but otherwise should find a  suitable  screen  mode
itself.

The only difference to the version shipped with the Deneb USB board is that
under  MorphOS  it opens a 16 bit screen as somehow otherwise the rendering
is not correct.

Enjoy and send your feedback to Eric Schwartz ;-)

Contact
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