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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:07:10 GMT

In article <smcgerty.717791907@unix1.tcd.ie> smcgerty@unix1.tcd.ie (Stephen John McGerty) writes:
>In <1992Sep28.231405.25723@bnr.ca> mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason) writes:
>>And, of course, they are RISC instructions. Typically, code expansion
>>varies from 130 to 160%.
>
>When compared to the 68000 series, RISC processors seem to
>have rather more 'complex' instructions that one might
>expect.
>
>For example, the ability to add register1, left shifted 3 bits,
>to register2, and place the result in register3, all in one cycle,
>is possible using the ARM RISC processor. 
>Think how long the 68040 would spend doing that.

You picked an easy example: LEA (An,Xn*8),An will do just that, and
also add in a signed 8-bit literal to the sum for free.  Your point
about it being "complex" is well taken, however.  (BTW: The Motorola
88K RISC processor has the virtually same instruction, without the
offset.)

I don't know what the cycle count for this LEA is on a 68040, since
I don't have the '040 data books.  I have not not mastered the
scientific discipline of reading Motorola's 68030 timing tables, but
it looks like it might run in 6 clock cycles.  As one of the CISCy
addressing modes, and one of the post-68000 modes, I'd guess that it's
not one of the modes Motorola concentrated on making fast for the
68040.
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From: brendan@gu.uwa.edu.au (Brendan Langoulant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Problem with No New Copper in A4000
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:51:37 GMT
Organization: University Computer Club --- Perth, Western Australia
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dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) writes:

>In article <1992Sep15.023838.16397@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   There is one thing about the AGA chipset that I've forgotten to mention. 
>>This is the drawbacks to the lack of improvements to the copper.  In the
>>ECS, the copper requires 2 scanlines to update the palette registers between
>>pull-down screens.  The AGA Lisa chip now has many more palette registers,
>>but the copper has not been updates accordingly.  The result is bigger
>>blank space between pull-down screens on the AGA chipset.  A total of 11
>>scanlines of space, in fact.  Thus, you can write off enhanced equivelents
>>to the Dynamic HiRes or SHAM modes for the AGA chipset.
>>
>>---
>>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>>--------------------------------------------------

>With 256,000+ colours on the screen at once in hi-res, who cares?????

>Colin DeWolfe
>dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca

I dont really care about not having the other formats like Dyna or SHAM.  But
having 11 wasted scanline is quite cruel.


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From: oldfox@rieska.oulu.fi (Panu Hassi)
Subject: Real3d 2.0 pics in nic.funet.fi
Organization: University of Oulu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 08:19:33 GMT

Someone just wrote a short description about the Real3d 2.0 beta he had
seen in operation.  For those of us who haven't seen the new version in action
yet, someone has uploaded some teaser pictures to nic.funet.fi that show how
the new editor looks.  The file is:

/pub/amiga/applications/commercial/pictures/Real3D-2.0-pics.lha

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From: cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product)
Subject: IFF24 to PPM
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:13:41 GMT


hey, i'm looking for some soft to go from iff24 to ppm/pbm. does any
exist commercial or otherwise?

thanks

c.
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From: CS19241727H@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (KOUKOULAS, STEVEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Need some FTP sites..
Date: 5 Oct 92 04:24:28 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


	Help,
	     I need some ftp sites for the following topics:

	1. Tobias Richter Graphics...

	2. Eric Schwartz animations...

	3. Objects for Real 3d, Imagine, Caligari 2.x, Sculpt 4d on 
		Cars, Termionator 2 objects, Computers etc.

	4. Any latest version of ScapeMaker.


						Thanks for reading...
From: martin.boyd@f600.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Martin Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: BLACK KNIGHT BRIGHT
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:51:55 GMT
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au

Original to: Rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
  just a warning guys, Black Night Peripherals is our old friends MAST, the
principles of the company are Dr John Griffits and Samatha (Sally) Peric
from Australia. These are the same guys that did the nasty on everybody with
the MAST line of products (i.e ColorBurst) and subsequently claimed Chapter
11th. Now they are just re-surfacing under a different name.
        Regarding thier "Brightspark"... They 'Showed' it at the world of
commodore show here in Australia in July under a little glass bubble and
were showing 24 bit pictures from a Colourburst beside it. This
'Brightspark' Board had no tracks on it and just had 2 FPGA's GLUED to the
P.C.B. What they also don't tell you (typical MAST style) is that it is just
a module that requires a mother board to plug onto. (That's where the extra
$$$$ comes from) You can just imagine the reliable support weyre going to
get from these guys if they do the 'Fly by night' on us all again.

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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Blanking the half line that is flickering
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:56:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Oct2.205643.1157
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > Is there a way to blank the half line that flickers...

Sure is... find the program BorderBlank.  I also run an A3000 on an SVGA
monitor (Panasonic C1381) and it works pretty well considering that it cost
about half what an A1950 cost.  I also use LacePointer for the smaller and
more professional mouse pointer.  It works well.  I found it on a local
BBS, so it should be pretty well spread everywhere.

Regards,



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From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Subject: Re: WANTED: A NICE 2D-morphing package
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Digital Systems Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 16:17:54 GMT

Perry S Kivolowitz (pk-asdg@cup.portal.com) wrote:
: Re: owl and baby looking alike - is it that they really look *that*
: much alike - or is it that the morph is so clean that the transition
: is smooth enough to make them appear that similar? 

That was my impression -- the heads were slightly different sizes and the
facial features were positioned differently, so the morphing software did
have some work to do.  I think a crappy morph would show irregular, fuzzy, or
perhaps double edges on intermediate frames, and that didn't appear to be
the case.  But it's hard to judge that from a thumbnail print.

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From: diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Curious note on Digitizing...
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 04:45:17 PDT
Organization: Micro-Medic BBS - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

> My question is:
>   Is there a way to directly digitize with DV from my Laserdisk player?
>   (Pioneer Model CLD-990)
> 
> Am wondering, for there are some interesting anime scenes I'd like to try and
> grab onto computer format for some obscure means.
> 
>   -=LC=-
> 
> 

A local amiga store used a laser player to demo Digiview. You just have 
to have a steady freeze frame capabiltiy for 10 sec.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 04:58:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.094145.21936@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au> dconnors@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (David Connors) writes:
>johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky) writes:
>
>>Sorry, I don't want to get off on this tangent, but I am not sold on Alpha.
>>I would think something like SPARC would be more appropreate.  I will offer
>>no aruguments as a peace offering and maybe we can get by without hashing it
>>over!  :-)
>
>Hmmm, ditching Amiga UNIX and having Amigas running Solaris 2.1 would sure
>be nice!!

Yes!  Imagine the alternative....  Windows NT.  Yuk.  :-(

>
>
>   Dave Connors - D.Connors@sct.gu.edu.au     Griffith University, Australia
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From: ajft@ajft_sun.cs.adfa.oz.au (Adrian Tritschler)
Subject: Re: Is SuperHiRes Deinterlaced in AGA Lisa?
Reply-To: ajft@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:37:09 GMT

In article <35440@cbmvax.commodore.com>, spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:

... quotes of people asking for dreams of infinitely high video resolutions.

|> The chips were not designed with that in mind. A 1280x400 60Hz non-laced
|> screen would require 17.5ns pixels, which is twice the speed of the 35ns
|> pixels that AA can handle.

May I add:

I wish people would stop and think a bit before asking for the their dreams.
		35 ns pixels = 28 MHz dot clock
		17.5 ns pixels = 57 MHz dot clock.
That means you are looking at designing analogue video circuitry with a
bandwidth of 2 to 3 times the dot-clock rate. Not impossible, but certainly
no task to be undertaken without plenty of coffee.

An open challenge, to all those wanting better video:
Go and create something that works as well as the current video, THEN
suggest improvements.

|> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Spencer Shanson - Amiga Software Engineer     | email: spence@commodore.COM

I'm sure not every one bitches about the Amiga's design, some of us like it!

	Adrian. (A1000, time to upgrade?)
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From: zoltar@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Harv's pictures!
Date: 26 Sep 92 11:06:44 GMT
Organization: The .SIG research Department, General Enquiries Office

In article <1992Sep24.052533.22640@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>In article <66492@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>
>>>  Well Harv, I did obtain your pics and thoroughly enjoyed them.  Thanks!
>
>>Y'know... heh heh... I gotta be honest with ya, I didn't even see all
>>that funny Preferences menu stuff till I got home and started 
>>Harv
>
>   Harv, Tomas thanks you for all the pictures you've digitized, but he
>wants to know one thing; when do we get to see the photographer up on an 
>ftp site?! :)

Is there anyway I can get access to these pictures? Could anyone send me
some? I am in New Zealand, but don't know how to go about getting them..

Cheers,
Grant
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Re: Problem with No New Copper in A4000
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 17:06:12 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <BuMEtF.Mzx@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.023838.16397@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   There is one thing about the AGA chipset that I've forgotten to mention. 
>>This is the drawbacks to the lack of improvements to the copper.  In the
>>ECS, the copper requires 2 scanlines to update the palette registers between
>>pull-down screens.  The AGA Lisa chip now has many more palette registers,
>>but the copper has not been updates accordingly.  The result is bigger
>>blank space between pull-down screens on the AGA chipset.  A total of 11
>>scanlines of space, in fact.  Thus, you can write off enhanced equivelents
>>to the Dynamic HiRes or SHAM modes for the AGA chipset.
>>
>>---
>>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>>--------------------------------------------------
>
>
>With 256,000+ colours on the screen at once in hi-res, who cares?????
>
>Colin DeWolfe
>dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca

That is the same as 24-bit in 640x480... I bet that is what 
it means...
 
None have told me if the colors work that way in other modes. 
This was a good thng for CBM, but I know of PC cards that 
will do the same thing... And the numbers of cards are growing. 
You can get 640x480 in 24-bit on the MAC's even. 
I bet the real-time animation speeds are just becuase of the 32-bit 
bus and the on-board 68040... 

Later
From: Robert_J_Hecht@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: graphics tablet
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 21:08:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>Can someone please tell me how to get DPaint to "recognize" a graphics
>tablet (Suma) and stylus in place of the mouse?
>
R & DL makes a prodraw mm-format graphics tablet driver for the Amiga
just double click on the Icon and Thats it.

<===Bobby H.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: Vista Anims.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:40:48 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

> 	Also, is there any other pd fractal landscape program that will
> make use of my 68030, and 68882, because I don`t believe that vista does,
> `cause it took an hour and a half to draw 30 frames (at top res.)

Vista Pro 2.0 is fairly cheap, and will use your floating point unit.
Also, Scenery Animator 2.0 is fairly inexpensive, and it will also use
an FP unit.  It tends to be much faster than VistaPro, and IMHO, makes
better looking pictures.  Either one should do what you want.  You'll
have to spring for the purchase price, but they're just about the same
cost as two games would have been.  Upgrades are usually cheap.

  - steve
From: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: IFF -> PostScript Bitmap...
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:25:37 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Oct2.121901.1047@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA writes:
>In article <1ai0fhINN56r@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca>, c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a graphics conversion program (with source) for converting
>> an IFF picture file into a postscript file? The program must run on either
>> a standard UNIX workstation running X windows, or on an Amiga.
>
>There's an old program called CLAZ (Fish 87) that does this.  I even ran it on
>a Vax for a while so the code is fairly portable.  I no longer have the source
>online though.

	Claz works great.  I still use it, although slightly modified.
By default, it treats 2 of the colors identically so it never produces
pure white (that is, printing nothing on the page).  It's a quick fix
to change this.

	Also, Claz does port to UNIX if anyone's interested, but WATCH OUT
for byte ordering problems.  Claz reads a "long" value all at once, instead
of 1 byte at a time, and if your machine stores longs in reverse order,
you'll get incorrect results.  I have a hacked version if anyone wants it.

                                                        Dan

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From: fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer)
Subject: FLI Anims -> 300 Pic in 3 Megs???
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:09:05 GMT

A friend of mine said he could make 300 Pics .fli anims on his 386, and run
them with only 3 Megs of Ram. As fatr as I tried, I can only run 90-100
Pixies Imagine Anims of the same format (320x200) with 7 Megs!!
So my question is : Is fli really that good?? And if yes : Is there a .fli anim
player/builder for the amiga?

thx,
sammy
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From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Aldus Freehand
Date: 27 Sep 1992 05:47:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone know of any drawing programs for the Amiga that give you the
"calligraphic" type lines such as Aldus Freehand 3.0?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: jawil@hpx11.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens)
Subject: TIF anims
Organization: AID
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:23:29 GMT

Can anyone here give me the numbers for some FTP sites where I can get
_LARGE_ FLI animations?
(Don't flame me... ;) I know this format is mainly for PC's, but I've got a
player for it under X-Windows and want some large anims to test my RAM :)

-- 
                               Jan Roger Wilkens
                     Student at Agder Engeeniering School
                               Computer Technics

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From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: WANTED: A NICE 2D-morphing package
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 19:15:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <66181@cup.portal.com> <amipb.01n2@amipb.gna.org>

Phillpe Berard,

Not really for me to do. The users are whoose opinion counts here; we'll
wait and see what they have to say.

One thing YOU said was interesting; you said that AdPro's scaling was better
than Imagemaster's...

Consider that Imagemaster can scale both narrower and taller at the same time,
as well as wider and shorter, shorter and narrower, and taller and wider all
from the same place. Consider also that we can scale a subregion. Consider
also that because Imagemaster handles memory in a more system-friendly manner,
you're more likely to be ABLE to scale in Imagemaster when enlarging pixel
count. I guess it's hard for me to see how AdPro could be better; the version
of AdPro I have (mind you, ASDG's never sent me the update, so I'm still
using the orgiginal 2.x release) isn't worth spit in scaling. Guess they
must have made it a LOT more flexible to be better than Imagemaster's
scaling.

Ben
From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Subject: Re: 4000:  Is it so great?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.25 beta (Oct 02 1992)
Date: 3 Oct 92 16:15:09 CDT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX


John Preston?  You'd better ask him on that one - we agree more than
disagree.

John Covington?  He has a VERY biased perspective of computers in
general, and I think most, if not all, people on the echo agree with me
in that regard.

So...what exactly am I posting that is a lie?  I'd really like to know.

Considering I get between 7 and 15 replies to my comments per _day_ I
have a hard time believing what you say about being ignored.  My points
are well taken.  I have a reasonable argument which I support with
facts...which is more than I can say for your posts.

Again..what am I posting that is a lie?

DC



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