From: sands@apple.com (Michael Sands)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Posting pix of pins?
Date: 24 Aug 92 21:11:26 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc


As one of my personal projects of using technology to restore the older
machines, I have been playing with scanning in back glasses and reproducing
them.

I work with a group doing advanced graphics here at Apple and therefore 
have access to some neat equipment.  I have taken pictures of some older
backglasses, scanned them in, and touched them up using some paint
programs.  The last step is to have the results duplicated using a photo
process.  I am kinda stuck on this last step due to lack of time...

The results are interesting.  The pinGame journal just published a picture
of my 1944 war time conversion, Idaho.  It is really pretty, sad that the
black and white picture does not do it justice.  The pictures of Ritz
that will appear in the next issue of the Pinball Trader were supposed to
accompany the article in the last issue that I wrote.  They were deleted
because of production problems.

The main problem I have with the idea of keeping the images and having
them on a server is my lack of knowledge.  The images that I currently 
have are over two megabytes!  Tough to transmit and tough to store.  I 
could contribute some of the older games, like Gigi, or even some of the
newer ones like Pinbot, High Speed, or Funhouse...

Michael

In article <SBB.92Aug17194627@panix.com>, sbb@panix.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
> 
> In article <y0wmPB1w165w@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us> tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
> 
>    What does the charter for this group say about posting uuencoded binary
>    files?  A uuencoded JPEG may be smaller than a uuencoded GIF, but either
>    one is going to be much larger than the typical article in this group.  I
>    don't know about the rest of you, but I'll have serious disk space problems
>    if this group becomes loaded with picture files (not to mention what it
>    will do to my monthly UUNET bill).
> 
> I don't think anyone was considering posting the scans to this group;
> I assume that we can find a file server for anonymous FTP, and then
> perhaps set up a mail server for those who don't have FTP access.
> 
> Of course, the scans could certainly be posted to one of the pictures
> newsgroups as well, but there's a lot to be said for maintaining a
> library of them in one place and allowing people to pick and choose at
> their leisure.  And as you said, many sites no longer get the pictures
> newsgroups due to space and connect-time concerns.
> 
> Now a brief update:
> 
> I spoke today with Roger Sharpe, VP of Marketing at Williams, and he
> seemed to think there would be no problem going ahead with the idea.
> He's going to check with the legal eagles at Williams though and get
> us written permission to proceed.  I believe that some folks are
> already getting started on the technical end, awaiting word from
> Williams and the other manufacturers before going ahead with it
> officially.
> 
> I'll post an update as things progress.
> 
> --
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