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From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:42:10 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Shuk C Yip,

Those are all good questions.

Imagemaster now has a nice box, has for a couple of months. It's a full
four color box with an example morph, effects images, features, etc. We
*really* didn't want to do it, because in the end it's nothing but a waste
of paper to the end-user, but dealer pressure forced us into it. When I
say it's a waste of paper to the end-user, I am saying that the lack of
a box adds or detracts not one bit from the performance of the product.
In any case, there is a box now. Any dealer that has non-boxed stock can
call us at 800 852 6442 and get a box for the packages they have in stock.

As far as a comparison chart goes, our previous thinking was that it was
difficult, even impossible, to produce a comparison chart that was both
fair and adequately described the differences between Imagemaster and
other competing products. Heck, it was difficult enough to do just the
morphing!

Finally, advertising. We're not at all conviced that advertising makes
all that much difference in sales in the Amiga market. The one place it does
seem to make a difference is the one place the magazines won't admit to;
in the treatment, by the magazine, of the products which advertise.
Currently, our sales are extremely good - so much so that we we feel
no need to advertise. If a serious competitor (really serious, not just
"marketing" serious, which is the situation now) to Imagemaster arrives
on the market, we may begin advertising. We've not seen GVP's new package
yet, and the only other package we're aware of is the AdPro2/Morph+ combo.
Perhaps GVP will liven things up a bit.

Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras)
Subject: WANTED: converter for *.VD24 images
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:53:10 GMT

I digitised a few pictures with a VD2001 Video Digitizer (I'll say
nothing about the quality, but the thing was three years old...and came
on a card that would not easily fit into an A3000T, even less an A4000).

Now I have the problem that I have to convert these pictures from the
VD's own format to something more 'standard'. Does anyone out there have
a converter to do this?

Please answer by mail.

- A. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Subject: Re: Emplant has shipped...
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 04:14:25 GMT

In article <BxxwqE.C8F@ulowell.ulowell.edu> jandreas@cs.ulowell.edu (Jason Andreas) writes:
>I just got of the phone with someone who received an emplant.  Wonderful,
>it finally shipped.  However, 
>
It shipped about 1.5 weeks ago.  Unfortunately, to date no one in
comp.sys.amiga.emulations has gotten it to work.
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:20:14 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Nov16.094147.90599@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>

>benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:
>>
>> I'm demoing the 4000 at my local Amiga users group next week and I wanted
>> 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 to
>> run in 256 or HAM8?   Or alternatively how do I open a high-color screen
>> and get multiview to open two windows on it?
>> I suppose I could just have two screens and drag them around, but that's
>> not my first choice.
>
Set Screenmode preferences to 256 colors.  Multiview opens on it.  I believe
the ham picture will open on a custom screen though because WB isn't running
in ham.  You could have a program like imagemaster or adpro convert it to
256 color pic and it should display.

-Joel
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 10:18:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Nov20.080711.7207@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <69975@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Nov22.052524.1231@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

>
>Ah, stealing my ideas before I even tell them to you, eh?  Great.  And it
>would be nice if the user didn't have to assemble the manual to the extent
>that ASDG requires - i.e. I don't mind unwrapping a pack of paper and
>putting it into a 3-ring binder, but having to grovel through the manual to
>figure out where to put the dividers is a bit of a pain.  I'd as soon live
>without the dividers (and in fact I usually do, for at least the first few
>client to buy the v10 upgrade.  That and the 2.0 style guide compliance...
>
>.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>
> 
>--
>|Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver|

Ben... I usually agree with almost everything you post (is that
conditional enough? :-) but c'mon... it took me like 4 minutes to
unwrap the MorphPlus manual, insert the dividers and put it in the
binder. Yer really picking yer nits here.. in fact they're bleeding.
Besides, setting up the manual in its binder is something to keep
your hands busy while you use the software installer to mount
the program on your hard drive. Hell, everyone knows that ;-)

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: A-4000/1960 monitor skew again
Summary: No, a little more to the left... a LITTLE more... a LOT more... 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
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Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 06:42:59 GMT

I've seen this question posted in various forms but have not seen a
comprehensive answer -

A client of mine has bought an A-4000 and a 1960.  Of course, the 4000 is
beautiful, wonderful, and all that.  But we're having the usual problems of
some resolutions being displayed too far to the right on the screen.  Even
with the knob adjusted all the way, several modes are INCHES from the left
side.  800x600, 640x400 DBLNTSC and a few others are particularly bad.  In
fact about the only one that works well (aside from the 15 Khz modes) is
1280x400 Euro-36 mode, which is fine for Workbench (until you try to run
Pagestream - the pixels are nowhere near square), but this machine was
bought largely to improve screen refresh times in programs like Imagine,
and if I still have to use such software in a 15 Khz mode, my client has
spent $600 on a 1960 for no real reason.  

It's funny but I don't remember this happening very much on the 4000s I
played with at WOC.

If there's some internal adjustment we can make to move the whole thing
over, there's plenty of rightward adjustment that can be made from the front
panel for the modes that do appear centered.  But ideally I'd like to be
able to have all scan modes appear centered... (seeing as how the overscan
prefs can be set for each scan rate individually (nice!))

And in other news, I was saddened to hear that Mitsubishi has replaced their
Diamondscan (the 1381A?? Not sure) with a model that does not have a
composite input.  I really need a multiscanning monitor that has a composite
input.  Does anyone happen to know where I might still find an "old"
Diamondscan for sale?  (new, preferably)

(Email replies requested for the second question at least)

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: christ@cie.uoregon.edu (Christian G. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Nickprefs...
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:09:48 GMT
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Osma Ahvenlampi (oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi) wrote:
: In article <1992Nov13.084321.60796@cc.usu.edu> slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:
: 
: >  Busy Pointer Preferences:  Allows you to edit the Busy Pointer.  Supports
: >                             an animated pointer as well.  You just set the
: >                             number of frames, draw each frame, and off
: >                             you go....
: 
: The BusyPointer editor crashes my system after a while of editing. Is this
: a bug or do I have a bad version?
: My setup is A500 w/ 68010, 2MB FAST, 1MB CHIP, Supra 500XP w/ 40MB & 80MB
: drives... I have a lot of Commodities running, but I'm pretty certain it's
: the editor..
: Osma Ahvenlampi  -  oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi   * Workstation power for micro-
: All my opinions are not necessarily really mine * computer price: Amiga := FUN
  I have this problem too, and it SUCKS...Otherwise NickPrefs is an incredible
improvement on the 2.0 WorkBench...
 
-christian
From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: PCX Viewer?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
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Date: 20 Nov 92 22:15:18 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

Ed Brown (eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com) wrote:
> While there are lots of GIF viewers, there doesn't seem to be any PCX
> viewer out there.  I've recently gotten a CD-ROM drive and have a great

AC Tech Vol 2 Number 3 had a C program that would show upto a 16 colour
PCX file.  With some work (and an AGA machine) you might be able to
persuade it to show 256 colour PCX files.

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From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Ze mail, she has bounc-ed.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 14:17:31 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Jeff Easton,

Thank you very much!

Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kilitzir@csd.uch.gr (Kilitzirakis christos 122)
Subject: Is HAM better than VGA?
Summary: Well,is HAM mode better than VGA (256 colors) or not?
Keywords: graphics
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Crete HELLAS
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:00:26 GMT


Hello people,
   Well,this is a short one...
   Is the HAM mode better than VGA (256 colors) or NOT?
   My primitive impression was that it surely is,after all
you get 4096 colors on screen.But after buying an Amiga (YES)
and play with it's graphics some,I realised that the HAM mode
is something like 'cheating',something like you know 32 sprites
on the C64...
   The big hit came,when I took a gif from a friend own a PC and
I convert it and have a look at it...It was a shock,it looked better
on the PC thing!!!
   Well,is that the case?Or did I missed a process in the conversion?
   Please,e-mail me the answer (ypolo37@pasifae.cc.uch.gr) or put it
   on nn.
					Thanks a lot,
                                      Alkis Argiropoulos
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:21:46 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>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).

Something sounds fishy here.  I played around with a 4000 for some time at
my dealer's store and 8bit WB was rather snappy (in dblNTSC & high res).
It felt as fast as an 4 bit deep 2500/30 ESC screen.  Perhaps something is
not set properly on your machine.

>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.

It does sound like something's messed up in your system.  I've yet to see MV
crash doing this, even with lots of MV's running and resizing them.

> - steve

-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kaltenha@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Raoul Kaltenhaeuser)
Subject: Paintings on FTP-site ?
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:41:10 GMT


As I want to create a animated walk through a kind of museum, I am
searching for some paintings (van Gogh or whatever) to use as brush-
maps. Is there an ftp-site which has this kind of stuff?

Raoul

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From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:47:19 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Nov21.055241.20525@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

Ben Scott,

Imagemaster can do everything that you needed to do. Your experiences here
are based with an older version of the software, as you have been told several
times. I have no objection to your "reviews", but I can't see how your
experiences OR your opinions are representative of the majority of users.

Something else, I've investigated the issue of the transparency curves
quite carefully - they work perfectly, and I was unable to make them do
anything OTHER than work perfectly. It sounds to me like you were making
some large mistake in concept - which is impossible to verify in a short
while, unfortunately, so it'll remain a guess for now. Since you also
said, multiple times, that this was one of the reasons that you "couldn't"
use Imagemaster, I suggest that you go back and find out what you were doing
wrong.

Several reasons I say this. First, I can't see where someone who "understands"
morphing, as you say you do, could possibly misunderstand how the tx curves
are applied. I'd like to know what we should explain that we did not. This
will benefit the docs and all of our users. Second, I must be frank and tell
you that I believe that Imagemaster's learning curves are much shorter and
far less steep than those of Morph+; and the statements you've made here
positively raise my eyebrows as far as they will go. I am NOT calling you
a liar at all - but I *am* asking you to find out just what it is in your
approach to Imagemaster caused you all this trouble.

You've made quite a deal out of it, as is your option, all I ask is that you
find out the root cause - everyone will benefit.

Ben (Williams)
From: heuvdp@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com (Paul Heu vd Netherlands)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: A4000 display placement
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:46:02 GMT
Organization: Commodore Netherlands

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
> Can anyone help?

Have you installed the VGAONLY executable in devs:monitors??
If not do this and reboot.  This should fix the problem.
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From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Visiona
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:46:48 GMT
Organization: The DSV institute of Stockholm, Sweden
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Anyone tried the Visiona graphics card? It looks pretty awesome.

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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:28:11 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <stefanb.722261222@hathi> by stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker):

> >Dont' worry, we won't. Gadtools is far too limited to be useful, and

> This is the *SILLIEST* excuse I EVER heard for NOT using GadTools. Where

    Sounds good to me.

    Also, as far as RTG goes, could be that he meant it doesn't do RTG
    _now_, and obviously isn't going to be at any time in the future
    for people who are using KS1.2 or KS2.0.

> 	Stefan
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From: bas@wam.umd.edu (Bryan Adam Slavin)
Subject: Mailing Lists
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:37:12 GMT

	Could anybody give me some info on Amiga graphics mailing lists, 
especially the imagine mailing list.  Any info either posted here or e-mailed
to me at bas@wam.umd.edu would be much appreciated! Thanks!
-B
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:30:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: ra.1992Nov17.153015.21709
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <Bxv70H.JvL@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>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).

I am using version 0.97, copyright Eddy Carroll, Februyary 1991.  I am
using a 6 plane dblNTSC 676x467 screen and find it to be at least as 
fast as the A3000 in a 3 plane NTSC Workbench.  If you want to see how
slow it can be, try turning of the caches and burst...  :-)

>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.

Could you tell me what files you are displaying?  I haven't experienced
a single crash on any of the 30-40 pictures that I've tried.  If you
could email them to me or upload them somewhere, I'll gladly try them out
and see if I can reproduce this bug.

>I should probably report this to bugs@cbmvax.
>
> - steve

Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
From: kmeyer@amiganet.chi.il.us (Karl Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: MorphPlus Used On Quantum Leap
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:30:22 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

>A client of mine taped this and I've seen the morph scenes now.  They don't
>look all that great, frankly.  Not because of the morph itself - that is
>smooth and clean - but the editing around it was not quite perfect, and made
>it obvious that the morph was done bewteen two still frames (and I thought
>Morph+ allowed morphs along moving video?).  For example, Bakula's head was
>moving back before and after the morph scene (which is basically of a girl
>getting shorter hair).  But the before and after positions of the actress's
>body were very well matched, and the morph itself, as I said, looked fine.


It does allow for moving morphs but this requires a) a lot of time b) a lot of
skill and c) the right equipment.

I assume a or b to be the reason since presumably the equipment was there. I
don't see how you could use mutiple machines to do this so the best you could
get would be 33Mhz 040 performance. Secondly, in order to do moving morphs it
would take pretty good familiarity with both Morph Plus and Fred which isn't
the easiest thing to figure out. I'd guess that if they continue to use this in
the future there will be moving morphs done.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: jmpor@dynam.adsp.sub.org (Jean-Marc Porchet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Impact Vision = flicker fixer for 1220 x 400???
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:52:10 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmswi!dynam!jmpor@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Merging Technologies (IV-24 designers)
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In article <BxJtoE.5Iu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, B.J. Anderson writes:

> > The
> > IV24 board has the ability, unlike Commodore's flicker-unit, to
> > de-interlace/scan double 15 KHz output.
> 
> Does this mean that the IV24 could actually serve as a deinterlacer
> (albeit pricey at $2000 :) for the A3000's "NTSC:Super-High Res Laced"
> mode???

no,  the superhires modes are automatically bypassed by the IV-24.


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From: mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:21:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Imagine2.0 anims lagging... :(
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (SRSD MWTD)