Q:
Can anyone tell me how I can play a 30Mb animation(flc) on a PC with 8Mb RAM?
> What kind of software does allow this without interrupting?
> I've tried aniplayer but that program writes everything into RAM
>
A:
The normal
AAPLAYHI (or ANIPLAY) flic player from Autodesk DOES NOT load automatically the flics into memory. I remember there was a player by Trilobyte that
did this everytime. If you have a fast PCI graphics board and a fast
hard drive, you might get the flic playing in realtime - I hope it is
640x480 ;o)
What I do is using Norton SPEEDISK before playing. I always put the
whole flic as the first file on the disk. If the flic is not fragmented,
the access time of the HDD is about 1-2 ms (track-to-track), and even
when accessing the FAT, the head has a very short way to go.
You should also DISABLE any disk cache programs like Smartdrv, they
might give you the feeling the flic is being loaded into memory...