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From: cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: AGA?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:35:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Can someone please explain exactly what AGA is and how it works?  Is it
possible to upgrade a 3000 to include this feature?

				Ignorant

cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 14:13:44 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <stefanb.722261222@hathi>

Interesting. I found this message in both by mail AND the public access
areas. For anyone, else, I always read both - put it where you want it
to be, I'll read it AND reply to it. Save me from answering twice, please.

Stefan Becker.

You don't understand the issues.

We have retargetable capability NOW. CBM does NOT. We plan to provide it to ou
customers very shortly. If we wait for CBM, the time frame when we can provide
it is completely open. Your average AMiga user can't even get 3.0 (which is
NOT retargetable) yet, much less some mythical retargetable OS. Further, there
is NO assurance that CBM won't do the same thing AGAIN and make the
retargetable version available only to some new higher end or different
bus/hardware machine. Gadtools will NOT retarget NOW, and so it is not
practical NOW.

Regarding features, GadTools does not offer many types of features that we
most assuredly need to even run on the Amiga display, much less on something
like a DMI Resolver, or an OpalVision.

Between the two, GadTools is completely impractical.

You say that retargetability is a feature of Intuition - no, sorry.
Retargeting is VAPORWARE right now from CBM. We're certified developers of
some considerable success and high profile, members of the commercial
developers program for CBM. I think we would know if there were RTG
available, or soon to be available. There isn't, unless they plan to
spring it as a total surprise.

You're way off target here.

Ben
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From: rang@codes.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Subject: looking for letter-quality output from a cheap printer ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 19 Nov 92 07:13:24 GMT
Distribution: usa

	I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the new Epson
dot-matrix printers, the ones advertised with resizable fonts.  Are
you able to use the resizable fonts from your word processor to get
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) with the printers built-in
fonts?  The reason I ask is that I have a Epson LQ500 and use an old
version of excellence.  Printing stuff in graphics mode is ugly.  But
I can't use the printers proportional fonts since they don't match
with any Amiga fonts I have (and I doubt any can since the printer
font widths are defined at 180th of an inch).  So I've resorted to
using topaz 11 and the non-proportional fonts.  Basically it looks
like is was done on a typewriter (makes full-justified margins look
real bad).
	So, I'm really looking for how I can get letter-quality output
with proportional fonts with a dot-matrix (or any printer that's
<$300).

	Please reply by email since I may not read this group.
                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Who's the babe in the Opalvison ad!
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:31:47 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Nov12.034124.2303@seq.uncwil.edu> loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd) writes:
>[Who's the babe in the Opalvison ad?]

	The "babe" is noneother than Irving Gould, CEO of Commodore.
It's amazing what can be done with a little morphing software (namely,
MORPHMORPHMONGER).

                                                        Dan

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From: Kermit@cup.portal.com (Kermit Royce Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: CineMorph
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:38:30 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

CineMorph, the standalone package as opposed to what shipped with ImageFX, 
was up to version 1.01.  CineMorph/IFX was actually released as version 1.00
- but it actually had more new features than the standalone version did due
to it's being able to call on ImageFX.

A new release of the standalone version is coming that will include all of
the features in the ImageFX version and much more.  As usual, there will be
no charge for this upgrade.

Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
From: mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:43:46 GMT
Subject: Re: BB Vs ASDG
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (SRSD MWTD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics

	
	I'm in total agreement with you James...

	The 'heated discussion' was actually of great value to me...
	and helped me to decided on a morphing package...

	If we are all so thin-skinned that we fail to take advantage
	of an information rich debate simply because things got
	"childish" now and then, then we deserve to have wasted our
	$$$ on product that doesn't meet our expectations...

	-Mike-
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:40:38 -0500 
From: Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Help me! A4000 won't boot!

Hi!

My five-day-old A4000 is somewhat unconscious now: It will not boot.
Here is a summary of what happened.

I left my A4000 running overnight because I was rendering an animation
in Imagine. After about 20 hours of non-stop working, when I turned out
the monitor, the A4000 was still working fine. I did a couple of things
in DPaint and then I loaded ADPro. I wanted to load a 24-Bit picture but
the memory was fragmented so it did not load. No problem. Hit the three
keys to reset (There was no harddisk activity when I did this!)
Wait......The harddisk led blinks.......nothing! Weird. Turn the
computer off.Wait twenty secs. Turn it back on. The power led flashes a
couple of times in a guruing fashion....the screen is black.,...the
harddidk led blinks......nothing. What the hell? Reboot......the same
thing. After seeing this, I decided to let the Amiga cool for a while.
After two hours, I turned it on and it booted. But I had to go to class
so I didn't do anything. I was happy that it was working again and
turned it off. When I came back from class I turned it
on.........nothing!!! I rebooted.....this time the power led flashed a
couple of times...and a green screen came up (one of the diagnostic
codes).....reboot.....a yellow-green screen......reboot.....black
screen...........

What is happening?  Why did my A4000 start doing this just because I
resetted it? I suspect that the harddisk is having a problem with spinup
but the color-diagnostic screens may mean something else. Does anybody
know what those colors correspond to? By the way: No, I cannot boot with
a floppy Workbench because the boot sequence gets stuck at the first
second of its activity....

Can anyone help me?   Commodore?   Dave Haynie?  Pleasee......I want my
A4000 back!

Thanks.

(By the way: Any ideas, no matter what, (as long as they make some
remote sense) are appreciated.)


Berend
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Once again....
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:43:08 CST



  I am looking for recomendations on rendering software.  I allready have
 VistaPro 2.0 and plan on getting their terraform and anim path modules.
 I plan on buying Imagine 2.0 (?) and am also looking at Caligari.  I am
 also interested in a "ray-tracing" type package.  ANY info reguarding
 the current commercial offerings will be gratefully accepted.


    Daniel Baehr


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From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: XV - does it exist for the Amiga?
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:52:41 GMT

alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:


>A friend forwarded to me from comp.windows.x.apps


>I am porting xv to run on the Amiga, and have a working version (no TIFF,
>JPEG yet).  Anyone interested?

How is the efficiency?  How well does it handle backdrop pics?  Does it have
it handle that perfect option.  Where when the graphic window is activated it
manipulates the screens colors to give all to the xv pic, and then when
the window is not activated the colors go back to the system and the backdrop
or whatever, and leaving the window in a color mismotch until activated again.
But the Jpeg support is very important.  And it could it use the workbench
or do you have to be running amiga x11 to run it?

Martin


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: zytnia@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Vands| Andersen)
Subject: Re: IFF to GIF Converter
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:42:06 GMT

frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost) writes:

>Does anybody know where I can get hold of an IFF to GIF and/or IFF to 
>Sun Raster file format converter. Either to run on the Amiga or a Sun 
>Sparc 1?


 There's a program called IFF2GIF on wuarchive. 
 If you've got the money (and the memory) there's always TAD.
 If you've got the space - there's ppm+.

 \zytnia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:31:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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Skip Sauls (skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu) wrote:

> Try running CPUBlit -b.  It seems to work fine and I have not had any 

Interesting; I must have had an old version of CPU blit.  I tried on
that I had stored away a long time ago, and it crashed my 4000
instantly.  (I never used it on my 2000 since it didn't help noticeably
with a 16 bit chip ram bus).  I'll have to see if I can hunt down a new
version.  It'd be nice to have.  Right now 8 plane workbenches are
_really_ slow. (But 5 works nicely, and 6 is tolerable.  4 is really
fast.  I usually use 5 planes, in SUPER72:Super High Res).

More on multiview: I can get multiview to crash my system instantly by
doing this:

  1. Multiview an IFF pic on your workbench screen
  2. Reduce the size of the multiview window.  Sometimes it crashes
     here.
  3. Try to use the scroll bars.  If it got by step #2, it crashes here
     on maybe 80% of the IFF files I have.  If it crashes on a given
     file, it crashes every time on that file, and if it works, it works
     every time.  I don't think there is anything wrong with the IFF
     file itself.

I should probably report this to bugs@cbmvax.

 - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: jandreas@cs.ulowell.edu (Jason Andreas)
Subject: Emplant has shipped...
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:42:11 GMT

I just got of the phone with someone who received an emplant.  Wonderful,
it finally shipped.  However,
From: BKessler@cup.portal.com (Brett L Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: WASP question
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:47:44 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

A friend of mine just showed me a great little public domain (?)
program called WASP, which seems to do a very nice job of converting
graphics from one format to another.  The version I have is 2.0.  Is
there a newer one?  If so, what version is it, and where is it?  I
find it hard to believe that a program that seems to do so much would
stop when it can only write IFF (and similar format) files.

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From: holler@holli.UUCP (Jan Holler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Open Letter
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:26:13 GMT
Organization: my own mess
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
  and
pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)

please keep that sort of personal war out of here. it's ridicolous!


                    Jan Holler - Bern, Switzerland 
           uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswi!augs1!holli!Jan_Holler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
Subject: Re: IFF to GIF Converter
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:55:07 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <1992Nov16.171435.25027@aston.ac.uk>, frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost) writes:
> Does anybody know where I can get hold of an IFF to GIF and/or IFF to 
> Sun Raster file format converter. Either to run on the Amiga or a Sun 
> Sparc 1?
> 

Try Wasp2.02. It converts gif and some other formats to iff, and iff to SRGR or
ppm. It runs on Amiga or Unix and is available as sourcecode on many FTP-sites.

Hope that helps

-Matthias


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: mba3@ra.msstate.edu (Michael Boyd Adams)
Subject: Gaps in brushmaps in Imagine.  HELP!!!!!
Summary: Gaps in brushmaps in Imagine. Help!
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:56:36 GMT

OK, I know there must be some way to get a brushmap to perfectly fit
a sphere in Imagine 2.0.  I have tried several different resolutions
and types, but the problem persists.  It looks really cheesy for a 
gorgeous planet to have a BIG gap on the back when it rotates.

I haven't had any problem with gaps in HAM pictures, but 24-bit 
pictures never work right for me.  I am using DCTV to save painted
images as 24-bit, then wrap them on spheres in Imagine 2.0  Is there
something I am doing wrong, or is this just a problem that exists?
.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
Subject: Re: DPaint V ???
Keywords: AGA, DPaint
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:17:23 GMT

In article <BxJzHJ.A32@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, jjarrett@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (James Jarrett) writes:
|> 
|> Computability is advertising DeluxePaint IV AGA for 119.99 in their
|> Christmas catalog.  It supports 256 colors at hi resolutions and HAM8.
|> 
|> I just hope it uses the display database.

Apparantly, Dpaint 4.1 works with 256 cols, but not HAM8.  To try it, load a 256 cols
picture into Dpaint, and agree to change the resolution.....


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From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Subject: Re: A4000 display placement
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:57:58 PST

In article <Ef0yLDi00VozQ37mJH@andrew.cmu.edu> bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu (Berend Ozceri) writes:
>I received my A4000 two days ago and am busy playing around with it.
>However, I noticed one problem (irritation): The DblNTSC mode shows way
>to much to the right on my C1960 monitor. Even if I turn the horizontal

I'm afraid I can't offer any help.  I CAN offer a datapoint; I have a NEC 3D
attached to my A4000 and have the same problem.  Let me know if a fix is
found.  Q: Do you have VGAOnly in your DEVS:Monitors?

---
John Lindwall                                    johnl@crash.cts.com
"...always use the formal attribute mechanisms for changing any field;
do not poke the objects." -- Jim Mackraz

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:57:35 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

> benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:
> >
> > to display an old ham image under a new 256 color or ham8 pic. (two
> > windows) How would I do this?  MultiView won't open under workbench,
> > I assume because workbench isn't supporting the color depth.  So how
> > do I get workbench run in 256 or HAM8?  Or alternatively how do I
> > open a high-color screen

Hmm, I had just the opposite problem.  For me, multiview _always_ opens
on my workbench screen even when that results in horrible color
matching.  Maybe there's some option to control this: I haven't checked
the docs yet.

Anyway, to get a 256 color WB, just select that from preferences as you
would for lesser depths.  Fair warning though: 256 color workbenches get
_slow_.  I can tolerate 5 plane workbenches fairly well, but 8 is a bit
much in any sort of decent resolution.

> > I suppose I could just have two screens and drag them around, but that's
> > not my first choice.

Why not?  Then you can have exactly the palette you need, and you only
use the memory for the duration of the time you need it.

   - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: mba3@ra.msstate.edu (Michael Boyd Adams)
Subject: Wavefront/Imagine 3dObject converter
Summary: Wavefront/Imagine 3dObject converter
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:25:14 GMT




I need a program to convert objects I make with Imagine on my A2000 to 
objects that I can use in my Wavefront class on SGI's.... I know it 
exists, and have had it, but I experienced the Great Hard Drive Crash of
1992 about a week ago, and I can't find the disk I had it on...

Anyone seen it, or heard of it, or where I can find it?????????

I have dug through both 'wuarchive' and 'amiga.physik.unizh.ch' and didn't
find it, but was in a hurry.....

Help!!!!!


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From: dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: OpalVision
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 10:40:27 GMT

In article <lgibb.0a8j@burner.com> lgibb@burner.com (Lance Gibb) writes:
>The latest Amiga World has an ad for OpalVision that has a blurb about
>"OpalAnimMate" - it claims to support opalvision animations at up to 60 frames per second.  Now I am assuming that this is misleading, and that the only 24bit animations the board will handle at this speed are the tiny 32x20 modes that it mentions.  It al
>so claims to play directly from the hard drive - once again I would have to assume this is misleading, meaning that your fps drops to about 3 when you start buffering from the HD.
> 
>Anyhow have any experience with this opal vision feature as of yet?
>
>--- Via UCI v1.16 (C-Net Amiga)
>


	Don't they have demo prgrams around? I saw one one  day but never 
found it again...


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From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
Subject: Re: WASP question
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:58:20 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <69664@cup.portal.com>, BKessler@cup.portal.com (Brett L Kessler) writes:
> A friend of mine just showed me a great little public domain (?)
> program called WASP, which seems to do a very nice job of converting
> graphics from one format to another.  The version I have is 2.0.  Is
> there a newer one?  If so, what version is it, and where is it?  I
> find it hard to believe that a program that seems to do so much would
> stop when it can only write IFF (and similar format) files.
> 

The newest Version is 2.02beta. It can be found on many FTP-sites.

-Matthias

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