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From: fritsch@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de (Lothar Fritsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:44:01 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, U of Saarland, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de

cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:
: Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional
[...] 
: Current users of AmigaVision can upgrade to AmigaVision Professional for
: only $99.00, plus shipping, by contacting CommodoreExpress TM at
: 1-800-448-9987.  Users will be required to return their original
: AmigaVision disks to CommodoreExpress within ten days to receive the
: $99.00 upgrade price.

What do 10 days mean? 10 days from this posting?
And how will I upgrade in Europe? CBM germany didn't offer AV1.7 at all,
and I think they won't have AV2.0 ready for a while, but sending my AV to
the US and sending back a whole package will be quite expensive :-(

So what to do?

Lothar
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Fachschaftsrat & Fachbereichsrat Informatik. Tel. 0681-302 4389

 Hochschulreform: Die Leute brauchen nicht so viel zu wissen,
                  Wichtig ist nur, da"s sie sich rasch verpissen.
From: hgm@ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:39:27 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University

cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:

>Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional

>(West Chester, PA --- December 21, 1992) --- Commodore Business
>Machines, Inc. today announced it is now shipping AmigaVision (TM)
>Professional, a new implementation of the Commodore icon-based
>authoring tool.


>Among other new features are full support for the CDTV (R) player,
>including playback of CD-ROM based CD-XL motion video files; speed and

How about being able to run CDTV specific software on a CDROM based Amiga?

--hal
--
hgm@ncsu.edu           "Office Buildings are our Pyramids."
From: wscc90r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Wilson Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: CDTV and trackball unit
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:20:58 GMT

Hi there,

I live in the UK and I found out that there is no way I can get hold
of either the Commodore trackball unit or the Brick-ette for the CDTV
over here. Dealers have been waiting since July last year for
shippment from Commodore and still nobody knows when there will be any
avalilable in England.

Are either of the 2 devices avaliable in the US? If they are I would
appreciate it if someone can put me in touch of a dealer or perhapes
tell me what the situation with these devices are.

Thanks in advance,

Wils
From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: av & scala mm
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:23:02 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: AmigaVision

In article <boba.33yz@terapin.com> boba@terapin.com (Bob Alexander) writes:
>
>Now, My question: Does the new amigavision give you control over frame
>speed when playing back anims? I am sure that scala mm probably does.

AmigaVision Professional allows you to control animation speed.

>Will either of
>these programs now read anims straight from hd instead of having to load it
>into memory?????????? 

While I can't answer for Scala, AmigaVision Professional has the capability 
to play animations straight from the hard drive.

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland)
Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
Organization: VisionSell MultiMedia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:17:13 GMT

In article <Steven_Hurdle.00vf@amusers.UUCP>, Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle) writes...
>In a message dated Tue  5 Jan 93  2:58, Amiga@usage.csd.oz (amiga Utilities
>wrote:
> 
> AU> Especially if you end up with a German version of the Welcome Disc.
> AU> It took 2.5 months to get a sepo (American) version, only to realize
> AU> that the horrible accent is intolerable.
> 
>I've never heard of anyone complain about a similar accident.  It must have
>been just "one of those things"
> 
Commodore made a blue at the Aussie World Of Commodore, last July.
All (or at least a large number) of their CDTV sales stock shipped with
German welcome disks. I'd guess they'd just done an internal inventory
international stock transfer. A large number of CDTV's got sold there.
Don't know if the problem continued subsequently.

I know. I had to get 2 replacements (but they did it quickly with no hassle).

Most mfrs/dealers should be using Total Quality Control systems to
stay competitive - its not just one of those things. eg. did the dealer try 
and contact Steve and pro-actively resolve an obvious problem?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:02:10 GMT

	 AU> fan in the CDTV is just as noisy as the fan in my A2500.
	 AU> Even when I play my
	 AU> Cold Chisel CD's I find the noise of the fan annoying.

I'd think you'd find the noise of the fan a blessing!

--
Jordan Hubbard		Lotus Development Ireland	jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
I DO NOT SPEAK FOR LOTUS - IT HAS PLENTY OF LAWYERS TO DO THAT FOR IT ALREADY
From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: AmigaVision Professional
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:47:32 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional

(West Chester, PA --- December 21, 1992) --- Commodore Business
Machines, Inc. today announced it is now shipping AmigaVision (TM)
Professional, a new implementation of the Commodore icon-based
authoring tool.

AmigaVision Professional builds and expands on the visual programming
environment used in earlier versions of AmigaVision. One of the many
new product features is the ability to display Advanced Graphics
Architecture (TM) (AGA) based screens, which is key to users of the
new Amiga (R) 4000 and Amiga 1200 AGA computers.

Among other new features are full support for the CDTV (R) player,
including playback of CD-ROM based CD-XL motion video files; speed and
memory improvements; and enhancements to the authoring environment. In
addition, a freely redistributable Runtime Module has been included,
enabling flows created in AmigaVision to be played back without loading
AmigaVision.

AmigaVision Professional has a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of
$399.00. The product is an attractive option as an authoring and
presentation package for interactive courseware designers and developers;
educators for classroom, administrative and interactive learning
applications; kiosk and point-of-information displays; user friendly
front-end interfaces to complex data processing networks; as well as
business, government and educational presentations.

Current users of AmigaVision can upgrade to AmigaVision Professional for
only $99.00, plus shipping, by contacting CommodoreExpress TM at
1-800-448-9987.  Users will be required to return their original
AmigaVision disks to CommodoreExpress within ten days to receive the
$99.00 upgrade price.

Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, PA, is the
U.S. subsidiary of Commodore International Limited. The company
manufactures and markets a complete line of Amiga computers and
peripherals for the business, consumer, education and government markets.
The company's worldwide installed Amiga user base exceeds three million.

Commodore CommodoreExpress, CDTV and Advanced Graphics Architecture
are trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited. Amiga and
AmigaVision are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

Commodore Business Machines
1200 Wilson Drive
West Chester, PA 19380
(215) 431-9100
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: New Amiga Multimedia FTP Site
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:07:05 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Oops... the correct address for the new ftp site is NEXUS.ED.USU.EDU
(hopefully that is the last time I will have to correct it ;-)

James

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From: f88tomas@fy.chalmers.se (Tomas Bengtsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
Date: 9 Jan 93 18:54:37 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden

In article <1993Jan7.023140.1322@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, s2120752@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Lester Gock-Young) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan5.052254.18966@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities) writes:
|> >Especially if you end up with a German version of the Welcome Disc.
|> >It took 2.5 months to get a sepo (American) version, only to realize
|> >that the horrible accent is intolerable.
|> 
|> The British Welcome Disc isn't any better. Where did Commodore get the voices
|> from?
|> 
|> >Another thing that I am annoyed about is the fact that if you play musical CD's
|> >using the built in interface, and do not turn on your TV or monitor, you have no
|> >feedback whatsoever. If I want to know what track number is being played without
|> >having my monitor on, I have to boot from a floppy.
|> 
|> Not! You can do it through the CD+G button on the track selection screen. The
|> track number appears on the CDTV panel. (Well, at least it does on mine)
|> But you still have to turn on your TV/monitor to press the button. And when you
|> press stop, the number disappears.
|> 
If I start the CDTV with a audio CD in and press the playbutton on the front of
the unit rightaway, the track number is also visible on the LED. But it only works
one time, if I stop the record or anything, it doesn't come back. As there is
digits to the right of the clock, why don't they use them allthe time?
Another point, isn't it possible to have the playing time on the time LED or is
the clock hardware connected to the display? Is it possible to program the 
display?

|> >     ///    amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au
|> >    ///     The amiga utilities account.
|> >\\\///      University of New South Wales
|> > \XX/       Sydney, Australia
|> 
|> Lester
|> 
|> \===============================+=======================================/
|> | Lester Gock-Young             : Internet:      s2120752@cs.unsw.oz.au |
|> | Computer Engineering student  :                                       |
|> | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia                      |
|> /=======================================================================\

Tomas
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*  Tomas Bengtsson              __  ///_\	*
*  f88tomas@fy.chalmers.se  	\\\///   \ MIGA	*
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From: wscc90r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Wilson Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: CDTV & trackball-S. Hurdle please read.
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:13:43 GMT

In <Steven_Hurdle.00vt@amusers.UUCP> Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle) writes:

>My local stockist has the trackball unit.  $100 Canadian.  The Brickette is
>available and costs half that about.  I know of no problems getting more of
>either.  50-pounds for the trackball unit, max.

>I have no E-mail access.  Mail me regular post if you still need help:

>Steven Hurdle
>2735 Scafe rd.
>Victoria BC
>Canada
>V9B-3W6


Hi Steven,

Thanks very much for your post, it's most interesting. I wonder if I
can ask you a _really_big_ favour and ask you to see if you can get
hold of a Birckette for me? If it's possible, I don't know what the
best way to do this is, for me to send some Canadian Dollars in money
order? Or would it be easier if I ask the shop to ship to England and
pay using credit card?

I would really appreciate it if you could have a look into it - if it
isn't too much trouble!! Otherwise I am pretty stuck at this end and
can't do a thing...........Thanks again,


Wilson Chiu
From: jfoust@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (James C. Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: SCALA wipe problem
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:32:49 GMT
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens

Hello All...
I'm using Scala MM200 to produce an opening sequence for a newscast here.  I
have a series of IFF pictures (hi-res), which I want to put in a SCALA
sequence to make them continuously wipe past from left to right.  I was able
to do this once, and it happened by accident, but now I can't duplicate the
effect I was getting before.  Now, when i set up each page with a left to
right wipe there is a slight pause as each page reaches the middle of the
screen.  Before, it flowed smoothly.  Anybody know how to correct this? I've
tried manipulating the speed, but there is still a pause as each screen
approaches the middle.

Any help would be appreciated.  System is A3000 T.

Jim

-- 
=============================================================================
   Jim Foust  Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Athens
      "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story."
=============================================================================
From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV & No Manuals Gripe
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:27:40 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Sun  4 Jan 93  2:44, King@snoc01.enet.dec.com (randall K
wrote:

 KK> OK. I'll be an honest maverick. Although I love the CDTV for its PD
 KK> Fish
 KK> via PARNET, the lack of documentation is a turnoff for normal people.

 KK> Simcity for example. We didnt have the original on floppy, so the ROM
 KK> is 
 KK> all we had. My daughter sat down excited to get into it, turned it
 KK> on,
 KK> and wanted to know some reasonable things like. Whats the objective?
 KK> What kind of strategies are there? All she got on the help screens
 KK> was
 KK> hieroglyphic pictures and points on various photographs.  She
 KK> wandered
 KK> around cities pointlessly for a while, and has abandoned it since.
 KK> Strike 1.

You obviously aren't paying attention at all.  Whip-out the case that Sim
City came in.  Open it up.  What looks like just an inner-sheet on the
front of the case to tell you the title of the game is actually a rather
well-done booklet.  Had your daughter read this I suspect she'd get a
pretty good idea of what her goals should be.  Most CDTV discs I have have
manuals inside the cases like this.

 KK> Then my good lady wanted to random play an audio CD. Wheres the
 KK> instructions?
 KK> On the welcome disk. 10 minutes later she has waded through all the
 KK> American
 KK> voices to find something that on our real CD is the push of a button.
 KK> She's not going back and doing anything else fancy again.
 KK> Strike 2.

I guess this is valid.  I hadn't thought that this would be a problem.  It
all seemed pretty self-explanatory to me and I think Commodore designed
those screens quite well.  I never had to consult the welcome disc to
figure it out.  If nothing else, a little bit of experimentation would have
easily shown what it all does.

I also think Grollier's Electronic Encyclopaedia was intuitively designed
and I've never had to consult the help function.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Steven Hurdle <==> The Swindler                [public replies only please]
Writer of "Virtual Rumours", a rumour/news column in some club newsletters.
Coming to you from Victoria B.C., the Bahamas of Canada:  via SupraFAX!!!!!

                     "Give me AGA, or give me DEATH!!!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Keywords: AmigaVision
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:32:53 GMT

In <38408@cbmvax.commodore.com> cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:
>You may use AmigaVision Professional's runtime player without buying 
>AV Professional itself. This player will run applications written in 
>AV Professional and AmigaVision version 1.7.

Does anyone know who offers the update in Europe ?

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
UUCP:     universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
                                "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
Date: 8 Jan 93 07:41:57 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Organization: Commodore Germany


In article <1993Jan7.023140.1322@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> s2120752@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Lester Gock-Young) writes:
>
>The British Welcome Disc isn't any better. Where did Commodore get the voices
>from?

The recordings were made by an agency in Paris. No wonder that parts of the
german Welcome Disc show a definite french accent...

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: New Amiga Multimedia FTP Site (addendum)
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:03:29 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1993Jan7.140705.62533@cc.usu.edu>, sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:
> Oops... the correct address for the new ftp site is NEXUS.ED.USU.EDU
> (hopefully that is the last time I will have to correct it ;-)

Just a few important things to remember when trying to access this site.

It's an Amiga, not unix, and it uses the CBM TCP/IP software.
The software doesn't allow over 8 characters in the user name so using an
"anonymous" login is impossible.  (get with it CBM!)
At login, use "guest" instead of anonymous.
In other words, you will type "guest" "guest" instead of "anonymous" "guest".

There is *nothing* online yet.

We can't guarantee it will work all the time, but I have accessed it from
other sites on campus.

I have no idea of how many can access the site at one time... or any other
info of that sort.

This site is intended for instructional and multimedia applications and
not for general distrioution of PD software.

It will stress language training and other educational uses of multimedia.

It will be Amiga specific at first (mostly becouse that's what we use the most
at this time) but may expand to include other machines (highly probable).

I'm sure we will have an AmigaVision area with some scripts that have been done
here at USU.  So if your interested in AmigaVision, you may want to check out
this site in a couple weeks (possibly sooner).

James Diffendaffer

* All opinions are my own, only my own, and nothing but my own *
* so what!!!                                                   *
From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV and trackball unit
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:42:30 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

My local stockist has the trackball unit.  $100 Canadian.  The Brickette is
available and costs half that about.  I know of no problems getting more of
either.  50-pounds for the trackball unit, max.

I have no E-mail access.  Mail me regular post if you still need help:

Steven Hurdle
2735 Scafe rd.
Victoria BC
Canada
V9B-3W6

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Steven Hurdle <==> The Swindler                [public replies only please]
Writer of "Virtual Rumours", a rumour/news column in some club newsletters.
Coming to you from Victoria B.C., the Bahamas of Canada:  via SupraFAX!!!!!

                     "Give me AGA, or give me DEATH!!!"
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Window-Glass Capacitive Touchpad Suppliers
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:39:26 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Organization: Commodore Germany
Keywords: Multimedia, touchpads

[ Sorry, can't crosspost to the other computer's newsgroups. ]

In article <1993Jan6.034510.12803@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland) writes:
>I've spent the last couple of months going nuts unsuccessfully 
>looking all around the world for a supplier of capacitive shopfront 
>window capacitive touchpads for my family multi-media business.
>
>These are 12 or 16 touchpads which you stick onto the **inside** of 
>shopfront laminated glass. They work by detecting the capacitance change
>resulting from  a finger touch on the **outside**, and have to be quite
>sensitive to work through 12mm glass. 

Well, I did something similar once all myself. But it has severe limitations:
it's only one sensor (one bit), not a whole keypad or keyboard. Thus you
need very specialized control software, which I made also myself. When
I will have some time, I will go and gather this all on one disk and send
it to Fred Fish, but don't hold your breath until then.

It works optically, which has some advantages and disadvantages compared
to capacitive sensors.
Advantages: You have not necessarily any additional electronics. If you
use CdS photoresistors, they are so high-resistance that you can connect
them directly to the pot inputs of the Amiga joystick ports. You read
them as analogue values and thus can adapt per software to changing
background illumination (day/night). - You can also make them more
direction sensible by simple mechanical/optical measures (place sensor
in a dark tube, etc.).
Disadvantages: You have only 1 bit input (ok, there are 4 pot inputs,
but that doesn't give you significantly more, and my control software only
can deal with one :-). - The mechanics of the sensor mounting is not
trivial, you have to take provision against light falling in from other
sides, etc. - It's slow. These CdS resistors have time constants in the
seconds range, so you may encounter no immediate feedback for a user
action (but not necessarily).

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!