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From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Black Knight Brightspark 32-bit Graphics Card
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:19:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.081303.14625@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU () writes:

>They emerged from Orange, NSW, Australia. First time I have ever heard of them
>was at the World of Commodore show here in Sydney in July.

[..]

>I liked their sampler, it was quite good. They also had a few surprises, like
>the 32-bit graphics system, CHIP RAM accelerator and their ethernet boards.
>I hope that they can penetrate the market both here in Australia and over-
>seas as well, because unlike the big names, these guys are really innovative.

Did you happen to note any of the specs for the 32-bit graphics card?
Assuming that the claims for this card are authentic, the price is terrific.

Mark

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From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: FTP Guru needed
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:34:27 GMT

In article <64072@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)  
writes:
> >I don't have the time, much less the patients, to search the convoluted mass
> >of directories that passes for a logical tree structure.
> >Tom Setzer
> >setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com
> I recently gained FTP access and I too am frustrated...

Take it from one who knows: If you don't like the structure
(or lack thereof) of sites you frequent, send
suggestions for improvements to whomever is
responsible for the site.  Don't just say it's bad- say why
it's bad and how to make it better. 

It's tough to do the right thing when you aren't sure what
it is.  You've probably guessed by now that I run a popular
(NeXT) ftp site (sonata/nova) and know from personal
experience.  When you set a site up, you have to do whatever
makes sense to you, and that might not make sense to anyone
else. :-) 

I get lots of good suggestions every day and take them
seriously.  I'm sure the people who run other sites feel
the same way.  If they don't, I can't imagine why they'd do
this.

Let 'em know what you think!

Allen B (Who's gotten pieces of many minds)
From: amaharaj@sun-4.cs.uct.ac.za (Anish Maharaj)
Subject: WANTED : SRGP/SPHIGS for AMIGA 500
Summary: Please help ...
Keywords: srgp sphigs
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Distribution: global
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:38:41 GMT

Hi 

I am currently doing a graphics course at the University of Cape Town.
We are using the SRGP/SPHIGS graphics standard on Sun workstations
and PC's.

I have a version of Matt Dillon's C shareware compiler on the Amiga.

I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to tell me how to get hold of 
SRGP/SPHIGS and how to get it working on an Amiga500 - I am far happier
working on my amiga!

Thank you
Anish Maharaj (amaharaj@sun4.cs.uct.ac.za)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: boarjas@elof.iit.edu (Jason Boardman)
Subject: Animation compressor
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:56:21 GMT

What is the best animation compressor out there that
compresses 320x400 interlaced HAM images into an anim?
Better yet, to save time: is there any source code out
there for a UNIX machine that will compress images into
an amiga-playable anim file?  (The NeXT here at school
is MUCH faster than my Amiga).  Please send any responses
via email to: boarjas@elof.iit.edu

Thanks
Jason


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From: ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Scanners
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:45:30 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <64369@cup.portal.com>, pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz) 
writes:
 
> The Sharp scanner is GPIB based and is about 3 times faster (approximately
> 240KBs vs 80KBs) than the EPSON. The Sharp also has a transparency unit
> option for scanning slides and other transmitted art. Image quality on 
> the 320 is quite good. However, as I said before, if you are driven by cost,
> you would be hard pressed to beat the value of an ES300C. If you can afford 
> more, you do get more from the Sharp.

How does this 'slide scanning' actually happen? Can you 'cover' the whole 
scanner bed area with a slide, or even with small part of it? What is 
then the maximum scanning resolution calculated as pixels per film surface 
area?
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: andrey@harry.ugcs.caltech.edu (Andre Yew)
Subject: Re: Vivid 24 graphics card
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:31:06 GMT

dkennedy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don Kennedy) writes:


[Vivid prices deleted]


>Comparison, the Silicon Graphics 4K/480 VGX is rated at 280 MIPS, 70
>Mflops. The SGI system costs $194,000. An Amiga 3000, 040 processor, and 
>Vivid 24 (full blown) costs $12,325.

	Of course, the whole comparison is completely
bogus.  There are about a zillion good reasons why you
should spend $194,000 for the SGI system.  I'm
surprised DMI would stoop to such advertising lows.
A question they'd be hard-pressed to answer would
be, if the Vivid board is so fast, why specify an
040 card in your system?

	Of course now that the Reality Engine (36-bit
color!!!) is out, who wants a VGX?

--Andre

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From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: PageStream
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:27:58 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Wed 12 Aug 92  0:51, Flui@fraser.sfu.ca (francis Wai Gee
wrote:

 FWG> In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0i7c@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-
 FWG> Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
>What is a "squashed" scroll bar?

 FWG> It's when the vertical scroll bar is twice as many pixels wide/thick
 FWG> as the
 FWG> horizontal one.  If you're using an interlaced Workbench, you surely
 FWG> must've
 FWG> noticed--no other computer has them!

Workbench? What's that. Oh yeah - that's that thing that used to be behind
my shell until I took the "loadwb" command out of my startup-sequence. :)

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From: ch41@prism.gatech.EDU (ch41 ch41 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: large animations
Keywords: animation
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:22:44 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Dear Amiga Enthusiasts,

I have been reading a couple of news articles about utilities which
allow one to play large animations from the hard drive.  I am very 
interested in such a utility.  I have heard of two possbile programs;
BIGANIM and RTAP.  BIGANIM was located on an anonymous FTP site at one
time but I can no longer find it.  Does anyone know where this can be found,
or the RTAP program for that matter?

Please reply via email.

C. Hart
ch41@prism.gatech.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago)
Subject: Re: fax images (GPFax)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
   
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:44:17 GMT

   I have a Supra Fax/Modem _and_ a regular fax machine. Can anyone tell me
if it is possible to hook the phone line of the stand-alone fax to the
phone-line of the fax-modem, to use the fax machine as a scanner and
printer for my modem fax? I would love to be able to use it as a 200 DPI
B&W scanner.

   (Disregarding the obvious - connecting each to seperate phone lines -
and calling from one to the other. _Every_ call here in Chicago is a Toll
call.)

                                 Chris Williams
                                    katefans@chinet.chi.il.us


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:35:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.002700.5915@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
>writes:
>
>>Here are the specs directly from Klaus Burket, the person who OWNS this
>>project...
>
>[..]
>
>>The product is based on the TSENG 4000 chipset (made immensely famous by
>>IBM-compatible S-VGA cards)
>
>Interesting choice of processor. Does anyone happen to have any information
>concerning the relative performance of the TSENG chipset to the current
>alternatives?

It may no longer reign as the fastest of the SVGAs, but it makes for a very
fast and cheap hi-res/hi-color display.  I've been using a 486-33 setup with
a ~$100 Tseng board and find it to be faster than my A3000 for many operations.
The only modes that it feels slow in are modes that no Amiga to date can hope
to match.

>>HiColor in already incorporated into the setup. 
>
>Nice.

Is this the 32k color mode or the 64k color mode?  I now have a 486-50 at
work with a newer Tseng board that supports 64k colors in up to 800x600
as well as resolution up to 1280x1024.  There are also lots of really weird
modes that can be programmed in much the same way the ECS can.

>>The important graphics.library calls are patched to work on the board and
>>they've built the board to appear mostly like the native chipset in terms of
>>bitplanes, only bigger...  (at least it's not copying graphics info from chip
>>ram.)
>
>It will be interesting to see exactly how well this compatibility is 
>integrated into the OS.

Hopefully pretty well.  Considering the form factor of the new machines
from Commodore, I doubt we'll see lots of motherboard swaps and that 
sort of thing.  Of course, I'd be willing to Power-Up my A3000 if they
have an A3000 + $1000 = A4000 campaign.  :-)  (If it really is called
an A3400, maybe they'll have an A3000 + $400 = A3400 Power-Up  :-)

>>Finally cost is 698 DM in Germany which translates to about $450 US...
>
>This is quite really quite reasonable, considering the fact that the market
>and number of developers in this area has traditionally been quite limited.

It is a rather nice chip and I'd love to able to have the sort of display
that PC owners have been enjoying for some time at a reasonable price.  I
hope that the company does well enough that their board is supported by a
number of packages instead of a few oddballs.

>>Hope this helps, please send any questions to burket1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mark
>
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skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu




Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: jkh@sparc3.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard)
Subject: What's the deal with OpalVision?  Vaporware?
Organization: Lotus Ireland
Distribution: comp
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:14:13

In my pre-FAQ questionare, I referred to "OpalVision" as not
released.  Now I've seen a few comments here and there that seem
to indicate that people are getting them.  Does anyone have one
who'd be willing to tell me a little about it?  At the very least
I'd appreciate some phone numbers or other contact information for
the company making/about to make it.  I'll give them a call myself.

				Jordan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: colyer@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (colyer)
Subject: GIF AND IFF24
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:02:32 GMT

Hey people I need to find the location of a decent PD IFF -> GIF
conversion program.  I need this to use with POV Ray.

Anybody else out there using POV?

I Also need either a utility to convert POV dump files to DCTV files or
(preferably) the tech. specs. on the IFF24 format...


Thanks.  Please respond by mail as I don't get to the net very often
these days.

James Colyer

COLYER@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: andrey@harry.ugcs.caltech.edu (Andre Yew)
Subject: Re: arenderman update!
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:30:51 GMT

cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:

>We already have so many rendering package in the market. How good is the
>RenderMan? 

	Pretty good -- most renderers we have on the Amiga
market suck.

	Renderman-compliant renderers (it's more of a shading
protocol than an individual renderer) can do lots of neat
things.  Among the neatest is its shading language -- you
can specify in a subset of C the rendering equation that you'd
like to use.  You can achieve all sorts of nice effects
with it.  Try looking through The Renderman Companion for
some examples.

	Also, Renderman is NOT a raytracer (although you can
make it one with its shading language) intrinsically.  It's
a REYES renderer, which gives it the ability to do some really
nice effects that no other Amiga renderer can do.  One of the
best effects is displacement mapping (no, Lightwave 3.0's
doesn't count because it displaces only vertices).  It can
also do depth-of-field and motion-blurred renderings, which
a couple of other Amiga renderers can do.  It can also render
NURBS, and I don't know if this is supported on any Amiga
renderer right now.  Perhaps the best description of Renderman
is that it tries to simulate a real camera (REYES = Renders
Everything You Ever Saw).  Incidentally, Renderman isn't as
slow as some people would like you to believe (we're using
it in a project on a sloooooow machine).

--Andre

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Converting Structured Graphics Formats
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 19:28:37 GMT

In article <22AUG92.11173683@wl.aecl.ca> roachp@wl.aecl.ca writes:
>I for one, would fully support such a development. At present I'm reduced
>to using Hyjack on an IBM thing. It really is a pain.

I guess that makes two votes for structured graphics support in Amiga image
processing packages :).

Any others who would find a conversion facility for structured graphics
(clipart/DTP, CAD) useful? 

Mark

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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: PageStream tabs
Date: 12 Aug 92 08:50:58 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Aug12.003514.221@pro-freedom.cts.com>, eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
> 
>  > What desktop publishers REALLY look for is proper TABS.
>  > ProPage does not have them, and neither does PageStream.
> 
> Well, page 5.5-5.6 of the PgS manual indicates that taps ARE available. 
> Guess the definition hinges on the word "proper".  Overlapping columns
> and/or proportional fonts wreck tabbing in many programs, not just PgS.

Left-justfied TABS are supported, even for proportional fonts.  That alone is a
miracle!  What is not yet supported is right-justified tabs or period-justified
tabs.  Numbers are frequently aligned over a period. 

The tabs still need some work, like if you have an article that scans multiple
columns, you'll have to manually set the tabs on each one rather than copy the
setting.

Soft Logik has acknowledged the limitations in the tabs functionality and
promised to fix these in an upcoming release.

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From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Converting Structured Graphics Formats
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 06:10:19 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <64479@cup.portal.com>

Vector graphics conversion utilities?  YES, please.  And if PostScript
is to be one of the formats, then I would love to see a flag or option
for the format.  Most developers have implemented PostScript files 
without the accompanying bitmap which PostScript allows so you can see
the image on the screen (instead of that annoying shaded box).  I'd
like to see it implemented in a flexible way so you can select the
target platform for the PostScript file and attach the appropriate bitmap.
For example, I think some of the Mac programs use TIFF as the bitmap
format to accompany a PostScript file.  Haven't investigated what others
use.  There's no reason why an image processor couldn't be set up to
convert just the bitmap portion and leave the PostScript code alone.
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From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Broadcast Quality -RENDERING-??!!
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:12:03 GMT
Organization: Amiga Colony BBS

At MacWorld a couple weeks ago, I happened to hear the presentation of the
president of the company that make the Inifiniti 3D modeling and animation
software.  While doing a model and rendering it, he claimed he what he was
doing was "broadcast quality rendering" -- I was boggled..... I thought
that "broadcast quality" has to do with ANALOG signals and formats, -not-
digital image quality......

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From: richardc@vogue.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Migraph OCR and GPFax
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:05:31 GMT
Organization: Amiga Developer (GPSoftware ACM093)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Aug19.150957.28071@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:

> We solved the problem.  It turns out that Migraph OCR likes the
> IFF files created from the faxes just fine if we use the "detail"
> or "fine" setting on the FAX machine at work.  There _was_ some
> very tiny print that OCR couldn't cope with very well, but aside
> from that, it worked amazingly well.  'Course I've never seen any
> other OCR program in operation ;-{). 

Sounds great! A number of people want to see OCR in GPFax, but we feel that
if there is software that can probably do a MUCH better job than we can, then
you'd be better off using it - it would take us quite a while to develop
the software ourselves and more time to improve it.

I've never seen any OCR software either... :-(  Then again, I dont really
have a need for some yet!

> "Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath

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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500 paging
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:43:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug12.214353.245
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> Can anyone tell me how to stop the Deskjet from ejecting an entire page
> at the page breaks?

Sure... stop telling the program that your page length is 1".  Most labels
are 1" high and have 6 lines of 6 lpi text on them.  You should be able to
use 8 lpi text and have 8 lines if you want, however.  I often print labels
from PageStream v2.2 as a series of 1 1/16" x 4 1/8 inch linked columns. 
Then all I have to do is pour in the text and print it.  This works well
but I also printed labels from ProWrite before I got PgS, so it should be
possible with WP 4.0.  Set it up as 3 columns of text and specify an
8-point font.  Page size should be standard 8.5 x 11", since that is the
size of the label sheets.  You may have to skip the 1st and/or last line of
labels on the sheet, depending upon the limits of your printer.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:27:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
writes:

>Here are the specs directly from Klaus Burket, the person who OWNS this
>project...

[..]

>The product is based on the TSENG 4000 chipset (made immensely famous by
>IBM-compatible S-VGA cards)

Interesting choice of processor. Does anyone happen to have any information
concerning the relative performance of the TSENG chipset to the current
alternatives?

>HiColor in already incorporated into the setup. 

Nice.

>The important graphics.library calls are patched to work on the board and
>they've built the board to appear mostly like the native chipset in terms of
>bitplanes, only bigger...  (at least it's not copying graphics info from chip
>ram.)

It will be interesting to see exactly how well this compatibility is integrated
into the OS.

>Finally cost is 698 DM in Germany which translates to about $450 US...

This is quite really quite reasonable, considering the fact that the market
and number of developers in this area has traditionally been quite limited.

>Hope this helps, please send any questions to burket1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de

Thanks!

Mark

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