Macs: Billions and Billions sold

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jun 11 13:33:11 2004

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 16:49, jkeyshcm wrote:
> > Bunny marches across one screen, then
> > the next, then the next and around and around. I have the software if you
> > want it. Sort of a deranged kinetic art form...
> That sounds like a great idea and I would love to do it for a display at the
> museum and shows that we do. Can share the software and tips? Thanks

ditto.

We were thinking along similar lines at the Bletchley museum, probably
using Acorn BBC hardware and Microvitec Cub monitors as they're so easy
to come by and would not be treading on the toes of anyone who might put
them to better use. At the very least a scrolling message would be nice.
Macs are another possible candidate (and a bit lighter for wall
mounting). Again, the hardware's very easy to come by. The Acorn
solution has the benefit of being colour, and the Cub displays give a
larger visible area.

All of which leads to the question... what network-aware scrolling
software has been written and for what platforms?

Presumably there are two approaches:

  1) Each machine on the network needs to know the entire "message" and
just maps the relevant bit of it onto its own display, according to
commands send from a machine designated as the master

  2) Again one machine acts as the master, but passes display frames
down the network to each of the other machines, which they then display.

The former uses more resources on each machine, the latter is just
network-intensive.

Hmm...

cheers

Jules
Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 13:33:11 BST