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From: pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adisak Pochanayon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Artist wanted
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:36:14 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


     Amiga Artist wanted to design graphics for Amiga Game and Demo coder.
Artist will receive credits and royalties if any profits are made.  I am
basically looking for a person with a good "cartoon" feel and who is 
capable of both character animation and background art (esp. tiled art that
can be mapped to conserve memory).  I have two commercial games for the
Amiga that were recently favorably review in Amiga World so I'm not just
your average Amiga programmer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: gmz@netcom.com (Gerry Zeitlin)
Subject: Re: FAX to Prof Draw Trace?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:02:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Jul29.213222.54@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
>
> > I don't have PageStream...
>
>Too bad.  It is a superior program.

Ah well...  How was I to know?  When I was checking out the offerings
I happened to talk to one outfit that said they used ProPage for everything
and loved it.  And I had already put time into learning Pagesetter II.
So here I am...

=gerry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang)
Subject: ColourBurst Board ??? Any Good ?
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 10:08:19 GMT

Can someone tell me about the ColourBurst 24bit graphics board (& software) ?

Is it any good ?

Thanks,

Robert.
From: skeeve@pongnet.chi.il.us (Noam Ben-ami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH'92 and AMIGA ...
Date: 25 Jul 92 11:09:58 CST
Organization: Temple of Pong

In article <1992Jul23.200210.7069@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com
>       Well, I just received an advertisement from Apex Software
>       about their Essence package. (Looks awesome, the check is
>       in the mail, and thanks Steve for the generous discount price!)
>
>       Anyway, Apex will be at SIGGRAPH.

Hi Ray! Are you absolutely sure about this? It would be great, as I'm going to
be there. Also, re: discount price on essence...how much are you getting it
for, and can I also order it at that price [old buddy ol' pal.]

::Deep bow and a flourish::
From: ttyytt@mixcom.com (Adam Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: IV24 and OPALVISION owners
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:53:31 GMT
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

>> M> A 72 point font should be 1" tall at 100%
>> M> magnification.
>>
>>NOT. This is a common misconception. A capital letter "E" will be 2/3 of
>>the given point size tall. That means that a 72 point letter is actually 48
>>points tall - well short of 1". Just thought you'd like to know that... :)
>
> JE> Wrong, you just misrepresented the question and gave an incomplete
> JE> answer.
> JE> A 72 point font IS 1".  Note that the term was FONT, NOT letter.  The
> JE> FONT
> JE> includes the descender and full upercase letter - that comes to 1
> JE> inch at 72
> JE> points.  Depending upon the font's style, your 2/3rds is also off
> JE> base.
> JE> Learn to read instead of trying to sound cool and hip.
>
>Actually, I wasn't trying to sound cool and hip. I was trying to correct a
>misconception, one that I see you still have. You do not measure a letter's
>point size by including ascenders and descenders, as there are no letters
>that have both, and ascender and descender length are totally dependent

I don't know who's right here, and I don't think these two are
understanding each other.  I am curious about this though, so here is
a question which I'd like both to answer:

Suppose Font1 is a regular font, like Times, and Font2 is a font whose
lower-case letters are represented as small upper-case letters.  So
Font1 has descenders but Font2 doesn't.  Are the upper-case E's from
"Font1 72" and "Font2 72" necessarily the same height?  Or would the E
from "Font2 72" be as tall as Eg from "Font1 72"?

AMC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Subject: Re: ImageMaster <-> ADPro printings
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Digital Systems Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:20:34 GMT

blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams) writes:
: Imagemaster has 24-bit capability when used with the Amiga's printer drivers.
: It does things a little differently, so as to be able to do 24-bit printing
: even on the 1.3 printer drivers. Basically, you need to jack up the rez of
: the image you want to print as high as possible (by scaling it) before
: printing. THis provides the extra resolution that is dithered into the
: 24-bit accurate output.

Ben, could you explain in more detail (any detail, really) what kind of
data Imagemaster sends to the printer, and how that's related to parameters of
the picture and the printer preferences?  I'm trying to get a Tek 4693D
working for someone, and printing from Imagemaster works ok, but there are
no printing controls (or documentation) in IM, and before I recommend this to
him, I'd like to be able to tell him exactly what he has to do to adjust the
size or aspect ratio, or get 24-bit accurate output.  (And with an expensive
one-use ribbon, I don't want to do a lot of test prints.)

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
Subject: Re: Background pictures on Workbench? (How about 2.0)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:06:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.152924.29939@news.Hawaii.Edu> johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (John Flanagan) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.121007.2843@sfu.ca> flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:
>
>>Use NickPrefs!
>
>I would if I could _find_ it anywhere.  Where's it hiding out?

I just pulled it off the amiga.physik mirror on wuarchive.

Paul Hollander    pholland@iastate.edu
Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi)
Subject: Sientific image prosessing ?
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 19:53:53 GMT

Are any of you reading the sci.image.prosessing group (came out
here about 2 weeks ago). There is really a need for good graphical
routines and Amiga on that group, as they do a lot of video. Also
you might get good hints to your own projects, and those of you that
program, might get good wiev for whats up.

I'll see you there :)

Esa
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: port renderman (?!)
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:55:50 GMT
Distribution: comp

In article <1992Jul30.854.8092@dosgate> james.kewageshig@canrem.com (james  
kewageshig) writes:
> I already knew that there was no Amiga version of the software, but
> was unaware that it is available for the IBM.
> 
> Now, I was thinking that if enough people were to request that RenderMan
> be ported over to the Amiga, maybe PIXAR would.

I asked at the Pixar booth at SIGGRAPH about this.  They
told me that an Amiga port was a spare time project there
because they didn't have any funding for it.  The guy I
talked to seemed pretty confident it'd get done
eventually, but it wasn't a very high priority item.

He also told the guy in front of me that a port usually took
about 30 days when they really worked on it.  Even a slight
bump in priority should speed things along. 

Maybe your incentive will help push it a bit.  I'll drop you
some email.

ab
From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: IV24 and OPALVISION owners
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:04:25 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Wed 22 Jul 92  5:45, Ttyytt@mixcom.com (adam Costello)
wrote:

 TC> I don't know who's right here, and I don't think these two are
 TC> understanding each other.  I am curious about this though, so here is
 TC> a question which I'd like both to answer:

 TC> Suppose Font1 is a regular font, like Times, and Font2 is a font
 TC> whose
 TC> lower-case letters are represented as small upper-case letters.  So
 TC> Font1 has descenders but Font2 doesn't.  Are the upper-case E's from
 TC> "Font1 72" and "Font2 72" necessarily the same height?  Or would the
 TC> E
 TC> from "Font2 72" be as tall as Eg from "Font1 72"?

The uppercase "E"s from Font1 and Font2 would be the same size, at a given
point size. At 72 points, both would be 48 points tall. 

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild)
Subject: Re: Which Monitor?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:10:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.094517.1624@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>In <1992Jul20.225857.8805@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   One thing I would have like to see Commodore do long ago is make a card
>>that is essentially this extra circuitry in something that plugs into an
>>Amiga video slot.  That way people could get the 1008x800 mode on ordinary 
>>monitors.  Oh, well, its several years too late for anything like that.
>
>Well, the Viking was exactly that, a card with the needed circuitry that
>plus into the Amiga video slot. You probably would have no problem to
>use it with a standard monitor that accepts the used scanrates (i.e. most
>larger multisyncs).

Well... I've just digged out the video board out of an old 2024, and
hooked it up to my Eizo t560i, works great! Before doing such things, 
check the specs for you monitor, the 2024 board outputs horizontal
scan rates of around 56kHz, so for example don't try this on a Nec3d ;-))

Although this solution is a bit `hacky', it works great, and 2024 should
be available rather cheap at the moment...

-Markus
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Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
from where you left them to where you can't find them.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,alt.graphics
From: b073766@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Great Era)
Subject: How to convert Intergraph .rle files?
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:17:45 GMT



I have two Intergraph .rle file. Is there any tool or method to convert
the Intergraph .rle file into other image format, say gif or tiff?

If you know the answer, please send me a e-mail. Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack)
Subject: Re: New Denise chip & Toaster
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:07:40 GMT

Toaster software version 1.0 did not work with the new Denise chip.  You had
to use the older chip to get it to run.  Toaster software 2.0 runs on either
Denise chip.

Jeff Hanna
Animation Consultant
Studio J Video Productions
P.O. Box 3086
West Lafayette, IN 47906

(317) 743-2983

InterNet: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
GEnie:    J.HANNA5

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: mfirooz@wam.umd.edu (Mark Firoozfar)
Subject: Want vista, but not sure.
Originator: mfirooz@rac1.wam.umd.edu
Keywords: Vista.
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:14:57 GMT

Hi all,
	I recently found out that Vista was included in the April issue of 
UK based Amiga Format.  Considering the fact that I live here in US, my 
chances in getting my hands on this issue are very slim.  My dealer no longer
stocks that issue (a shame).  I would like to ask one of you fellow netters
who does own the mag to please send me an uuencoded versoin of it.  I am 
assuming that this is legal, presuming that every thing that comes out on
the cover of EuroMags, is legaly entitled to be freely distributed without
infringing on any of the copyright laws.  But if this is legaly not right, 
don't worry about my request.  But if it is alright, either send me via
email, or feel free to upload it for ftp.  Thanks for your  consideration.

Mark.

mfirooz@wam.umd.edu
From: Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca (Manjit Bedi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Psychedelic Animations
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:11:31 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I know this is an Amiga group but I just throw my two bits in.


Hmm, A rave is where a lot people get together in the English countryside and
terrorise the local sheep population.  Well, actually that may be a result of
a Rave.

Raves are sort of big parties held be enterprising types with a killer sound
system
and lots of music in the Techno or Manchester genre.  They are happening all
over the  world.  They can take place in a open field or in a empty warehouse.

Apparently, there is one every night in San Francisco.
From: 31ochs@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Fat Agnus and PAL
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:18:53 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I have a question for all you Amiga guru's out there...
I bought an Amiga 500 in May, it's the standard basic package,
with mouse, internal drive, 512K RAM, etc.
A friend of mine told me I should have the correct Agnus chip to
be able to run games in PAL format, by using a PAL booter, or
similar program. But when I run it, it says
Fatter Agnus not found.
I know that I should have the Fat Agnus, is the Fatter Agnus chip 
different. The friend of mine told me it wasn't.

Please E-mail, I don't read this group regularly...
Thanks in Advance,
Fred Ochs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Subject: Re: ColourBurst Board ??? Any Good ?
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:12:35 GMT

c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang) writes:
> Can someone tell me about the ColourBurst 24bit graphics board (& software) ?
> 
> Is it any good ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert.
> 

Forget about it, it's discontinued.

The original developer is now working with another manufacturer and
calling the board OpalVision. I don't know if it's released yet, I
have never seen it.


-- 
=============================================================================
 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
=============================================================================
From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ProPage 3.0 looks like Windows!
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:26:50 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Jul29.232637.12343@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
> In article <712429304.AA9335@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
> (Paul Miller) writes:
> 
>>Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that ProPage 3.0 looks and
>>functions JUST LIKE WINDOWS! Right down to the STUPID 3D button (the
>>kind that when you push it in, the title shifts down and to the right -
>>yeah - REALLY realistic). No 2.0-look windows. Really slow menus and
>>dialog boxes that function on my A3000 like a 286 running Windows.
> 
> This program provides numerous examples of how to deviate from style-guide
> compliance and furnish the user with an awkward and aesthetically distasteful
> interface. But if you think this one is bad, take a look at Pro Draw 3.0.
> Not only does it have the liabilities of PP 3.0, but it manages to create
> some of its own. In the meantime, the competition (Pagestream & ProVector),
> have been migrating to the 2.0 look-and-feel.

  Agreed 100%!  I was untill yersterday concidering the purchase of one of
  these DTPs, and my final choice was for PageStream.  If I wanted that
  ProPage crap I would of bought a PeeCeeeeee.  An interface in a productivity
  software title is what makes it go or not.  Re-learning is not productive.

  Feature wise, PageStream is just as good (or even better than in some
  instances) as ProPage.  The 2.0 "feel" pushed it right over ProPage.
  I can really get in extra Productivity using PageStream.

  Kudos to Soft Logik.  They have my support (and my money!)

  Gold Disk needs to find out about OS 2.xx.  If they don't IMPROVE there
  interfaces to Amiga Quality (NOT PC!) they're going to loose a lot of
  buisiness.  Expecial since the "revival" of the Amiga.

  More and more people are looking at the Amiga Solution, and Gold Disk seems
  to defeat that.  Again, kudos to Soft-Logik.

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From: oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Want vista, but not sure.
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:05:06 GMT
Organization: We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <62855@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:

> A few months back a similar situation occured with a certain paint 
> program. It was produced as a "coverdisk" version for a UK magazine.
> The magazine provided very little documentation in that issue, but
> enouraged readers to send in some amount of money to receive a full
> printed manual, which the maker of the paint program had done up
> especially to be sold this way thru the magazine to its UK/Euro
> customers. His contract with the magazine specifically prohibited
> distribution of this issue with this disk in the USA where his
> paint program is sold commercially, by dealers, in a full package with
> the manual included.  
> 
> Well guess what hapened... the magazine was imported and ended up on
> USA dealers' shelves anyway.  Upon hearing this my friend, the
> author and self-publisher of the paint program, well he basically
> hit the ceiling. He's probably still trying to scrape himself off.
> 

If you are talking about Graphics Workshop, I'm damned glad they did it.
After I spent my money on the program, and got a worthless piece of junk
"manual" that did not even CLAIM to be a manual (it has words to the effect
of 'this is not a tutorial or a manual, just an overview of the features')
a program that sorely needs updating, and the author who seems to care
a whole lot more about generating fresh income by releasing new programs
that rather than supporting people that already gave him their money, I was
pretty happy that I saw what seemed to be a real honest to god manual
written for that thing, even if it was available only in Europe.

Steve Hines can scrape himself off the goddamned ceiling and stop whining.

Regards,
 Oleg

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From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ColourBurst Board ??? Any Good ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:45:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1992Jul31.154505.16589
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <monster.04e9@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au> monster@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au (Martin Ozolins) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.121235.7791@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>> c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang) writes:
>> > Can someone tell me about the ColourBurst 24bit graphics board (& software) ?
>> > 
>> > Is it any good ?
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > 
>> > Robert.
>> > 
>> 
>> Forget about it, it's discontinued.
>> 
>> The original developer is now working with another manufacturer and
>> calling the board OpalVision. I don't know if it's released yet, I
>> have never seen it.
>> 
>
>Gee, does that mean I should sell my GVP 22Mhz Combo and get a G-Force ??
>What logic :-) do you have
>-- 
>
	Forget the logic and pay attention to the content.  Colourburst is
dead, if it was ever really alive.  There is *no* software for it (or none
that I've heard of).  OpalVision is the CB's successor, and if the ads
are accurate, there will be tons of software to go along with it.

-- 
-John

John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Psychedelic Animations
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Jul 92 23:33:40 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sat 25 Jul 92 16:00, Takeuch@ccu.umanitoba.ca (travis L 
wrote:

 TL> Hi folks!
 TL>  A group of associates and I are planning on holding a rave in the
 TL> near future.

What is a "rave"? I thought that "rave" was something that lunatics do.

 TL> One idea that we had was to rent a couple of Wide screen
 TL> televisions and run psychedelic animations during the rave. Does 
 TL> anyone here know of any programs (PD) or demos that contain 
 TL> psychedelic animations?

It really depends on your definition of "psychedelic". If you mean some sad
nostalgic sixties-style colour and light show featuring liquids being
squished in glass dishes on overhead projectors, no. If you mean bright
colours that move around a lot and make you feel warm and happy, there are
several such things. 

Lots of Euro-demos feature wild colour transitions, but they often have
their own music. If you turn the volume down and throw on a Doors album I
am sure these could keep you happy.

One suggestion - get a PD Mandelbrot program and set up a slideshow with
lots of colour-cycling. One suggestion - Mandelmania from the fish-disks --
you can set up some cool mind-blowing animations with it, man. Can you dig
it? Far out. Groovy.


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: takeuch@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Travis L Takeuchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: WASP: how do you output iff24 and dhires?
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:19:14 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Hi folks!
	I just downloaded wasp from wuarchive and I am having trouble trying
to convert a 640x480 gif image into a dynamic hires picture. Does anyone know
what the correct procedure for this conversion is?  The extremely
minimal docs do not help at all. Also, how does one output iff24 pictures?
	Thanx in advance,
	Dominic, using Travis L Takeuchi's account
From: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: ImageMaster <-> ADPro printings
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:53:29 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

How does Imagemaster handle printing 24/8 bit graphics.  So far I
got no info nor I wanna buy this package just to find they
allready have a nice routine.  The Imagemaster infosheet I got is
missing any information about printing and what I have seen so far
is far from being good.

Does it have hidden capabilities same as ADPro?
If not, how should an interface to Imagemaster be designed? I own
ADPro, so no problem with replacing PrefPrinter saver...

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