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From: oahvenla@silver-surfer.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: C= 2300 Genlock
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:38:29 GMT

In <1992Oct5.134909.24500@ncsu.edu> jmkaraka@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN MARTIN KARAKASH) writes:

>	I just picked up a genlock, [ on sale :) ], but it has an irritating
>problem.  When I try joining a video feed with certain graphic screens it
>'rolls' the screen.  For simple stuff like workbench, text editors, etc. 
>it works fine.  Is there a fix?  What's the deal?  Am I SOL?!?

"Certain graphic screens"? Pretty specific, considering that all Amiga screens
are graphics, there just is no text modes... :-)
Anyway, some programs, like most demos, which make their own screens, jus
don't synchronize correctly. To be honest, I made a little demo for my school
couple of years back, trying to do it so that it could be genlocked. Now, when
they got that genlock, it rolled. I still don't know what caused it, though
I didn't look very hard.... Up to that point, I thought that Amiga hardware
takes care of the genlocking as long as you set that genlock bit, and
synchronization is done correctly, but no... Well, there could've been a bug
in that code, and all you really need is to set that genlock bit, I don't
know. Try it, if you can.

--
Osma Ahvenlampi  -  oahvenla@niksula.cs.hut.fi
My opinions are mine, and though someone else may share them, that's not my
fault. You may freely agree or disagree with me, I don't much care.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: grusin@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL)
Subject: Re: Re: Foundation
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:41:43 GMT

In article <19750026@hpmwmat.sr.hp.com> mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell) writes:
>	
>	Absolutely avoid Foundation at all costs.  Great concept.
>	Weak implementation (I'm being nice here). Extremely poor service.
>

Are you guys referring to the older versions of foundation, or the new
one (3.0) that is supposed to be available?  An article in .info last
year (by Harv Lazer) compared all the authoring software and concluded
that foundation was the best (even if it's manual was pretty bad).

A recent full-page ad in amazing/amiga announced that 3.0 was available
(with a much improved manual and a lowered price...)  I haven't been
able to get past their answering machine (so I believe you about their
service- if they can't even take an ORDER how are they going to be on
QUESTIONS?), but might the program be worth it anyway? (no flames, I
just want a REALLY GOOD authoring system...).

-Mike (grusin@rintintin.colorado.edu)
"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design" -Joel, MST3000
From: Dave_Johnson@a68k.denver.CO.US (Dave Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Re: Foundation
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:45:26 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

I had a similar problem with Intuitive... at the time, I had bought
UltraCard, a precursor to Foundation.  It was so buggy it would have to be
called a gamma version of Foundation.  After it corrupted my hard disk four
or five times, I gave up and demanded a refund.  They refused.  I hounded
them for weeks, and finally threatened legal action, even sending them my
lawyer's letter of intent.  They sent me a refund.  It was the last time
I've ever dealt with Intuitive Technologies, in any of its incarnations, or
any of their rotten products.  They are the embodiment of what gives the
Amiga a bad rep.

                                                         drj

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From: raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Read Music CD Data with CDTV?
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:37:40 PST
Organization: BBS

   I do not represent nor am I employed by Scala, Inc., the maker of
ScalaMM200.  I am, however, a user of their fine software package and a staunch
adovcate of it for videographics and multimedia.


Raymond Ulibarri
Vice President
MultiCon
Multimedia Concepts
(510)261-1001
From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: amigavision
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:55:11 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: AmigaVision

In article <199211.4475.3661@dosgate> "james purchase" <james.purchase@canrem.com> writes:
>Has any thought been given to allowing AmigaVision to access the
>Workbench enviornment? I would like to be able to use the database
>features of AmigaVision in a program, but wish to have the program
>operate in a Workbench window, NOT on a separate screen.

This feature did not make it into AmigaVision Professional, 
but we are seriously considering it for future AV versions.

Thanks for the input,
Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Info about Amiga
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 01:52:44 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I'd thank you any suggestion and any help you can give me. Thanks in advance.

> >Jesus Barrera Ramos
>al161926@academ01.mty.itesm.mx

	Haysoos, I assume you are asking for Mexican availability and prices. Kind
of diffici to answer from here. I have heard that the Amiga (she's a friend) is
available in Latin America, but you would just have to check for distributors t
here.
Actually I heard that the Video Toaster is going great guns in Latin America fo
r TV
Studio work.

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From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Upgrade Policy?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 01:38:51 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <35850@cbmvax.commodore.com>

>As soon as I find out what the official policy is for upgrading to
>AmigaVision Professional, I'll post it.
>
>Cathy
>              ============================================
>              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
>              Authoring System Support Specialist
>              Commodore Applications and Technical Support
>              ============================================
	I thought the community had decided to abjure the "pro" or
"professional" in future upgrades. Starts to seem kind of immature.
	How about "Amiga Vision, the Dictator" or
		"Amiga Vision Ultimato" or something fun?
		(Maybe "Vision Perfect"? hehe)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: vesty@bart.camb.inmet.com (Matt Vesty)
Subject: AmigaVision Upgrade Policy?
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:27:48 GMT

Is there a policy for upgrading AmigaVision to Amiga Vision Prof.?

Thanks
-- Matt    vesty@inmet.com
From: steed@digitm.UUCP (Steed Kulka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Read Music CD Data with CDTV?
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:53:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia


In article <1992Oct2.110142.1109@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities) writes:
>
>In article <04101.AA04101@digitm.UUCP> steed@digitm.UUCP (Steed Kulka) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Sep25.004949.16407@coli.uni-sb.de> fritsch@fsinfo.cs.uni-
>>sb.de (Lothar Fritsch) writes:
>>
>>>My question  is now: is it possible to to some kind of
>>>raw read to an audio CD that is in the CDTV?
>>
>>CD-DA tracks can't be sent to the CDTV RAM. The audio and the computer
>>subsystems are two separate entities, for copyright reasons.
>
>Bummer. But I think there might be a way of hacking it. After all the
>data from the CD-ROM must get to the CPU somehow in order to execute
>the code that is stored there. I am not saying that CD-DA goes the
>same way, but there must be a register somewhere in there that tells
>the disc subsystem where to throw it's data.
>
>Now, from the docs that I have the disc sub-system spews the data at
>the cpu at ~170K/s. The data comes in bursts, about 3ms(?) apart. Now,
>that leads me to an assumption that somewhere in there hides the
>error correction that the machine performs. But wait, there's more...
>It also says in these magic books that there is a buffer which is
>split into three parts: Raw data, Data being corrected and the end
>product.
>
>Hell, if CBM will give me enough info to bash the hardware or provide
>some device calls to gimme enough control over what I'm getting from
>the disc, I will write a PD utility to take samples from the CD.
[...]
>>Even if you could directly read DA tracks into memory, you'd get something
>>different from the usual Amiga raw audio data.
>
>As if it was hard to convert that to 8-bit samples. At the simplest
>level you could just take the upper byte from the word stored on CD.
>If you want to get sophisticated you can always do some processing
>of the sound. Chances are that you will want to down-sample the data
>from 41kHz down to about 18kHz, but all of that isn't that much work.
>
>           Peter.

No one ever said it's impossible. I just wanted to point out that you can't
have an Amiga sample by merely reading raw DA data. Oh, and you still have to
read those tracks, btw. Documented device calls won't help you (READs are
done on CD ROM tracks only), and C= is not the right place to ask how to bash
the hw :-)

I would also like to know what "magic books" you are referring to. The DA
buffer is certainly interesting if you want to hack the audio, but I doubt
it's in the Amiga RAM, or readable by the CDTV computer subsystem.
CD player manufacturers must adhere to some rules in order to get their
licenses (mainly, I repeat, for copyright reasons); and C= is no exception.
This doesn't mean you can't hack it - but there are other and better means to
do so.

--

Steed Kulka @ Digiteam Srl
"Sure I'm drunk - do you think I program this way all the time?"

BIX: digiteam
UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmita!digitm!steed
YELLNET: steeeeeeed!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CD-XL or CD+G without CD-TV?
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:35:55 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <1992Oct7.142208.10334@col.hp.com> by dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin):

> anims (would be nice tho :).  What I would like to try is to extract single
> frames from the CDXL anims.  Anyone have a program that does this?  Is it

    Is the file format specification for a CDXL animation available to
    the public?

> Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com
--
*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***    "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk    ***
From: al161926@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Jesus Barrera Ramos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Info about Amiga
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:14:19 GMT

Hi everybody

I've never sent a mail to the list the reason of this one is to ask you about amiga computer, I friend of mine wanna buy one but doesn't know where to and what's the cost of such a computer, so he told me to investigate something about it. That's why I'm sending you this letter, he wanna know where to buy an amiga computer, and what's the cost of it, he wanna use it to work on multimedia: add subtitles to pictures, edit'em, create animations, play with sound and mix something, mix pictures, sound and compu




ter animation. I'd thank you any suggestion and any help you can give me. Thanks in advance.



Jesus Barrera Ramos
al161926@academ01.mty.itesm.mx
From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Foundation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 23:58:15 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>I had a similar problem with Intuitive... at the time, I had bought
>UltraCard, a precursor to Foundation.  It was so buggy it would have to be
>called a gamma version of Foundation.  After it corrupted my hard disk four
>or five times, I gave up and demanded a refund.  They refused.  I hounded
>them for weeks, and finally threatened legal action, even sending them my
>lawyer's letter of intent.  They sent me a refund.  It was the last time
>I've ever dealt with Intuitive Technologies, in any of its incarnations, or
>any of their rotten products.  They are the embodiment of what gives the
>Amiga a bad rep.
>
>                                                         drj
>
	I had UltraCard also. Foundation2.7 is a vastly improved product and
works fairly well. It does many things that are just not possible with
AVision. Unfortunately Found3.0 seems to be still born. If you can find
2.7 for around $100 I would advise getting it. It's very cool. Unfortunately
there will be no support from the author. (it seems)

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From: mjw+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: amigavision
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:21:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.QerQGiu00hsBB61r5n
	<35851@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.multimedia: 13-Oct-92 Re:
amigavision Catherine G. - CATS@cbmv (797)

> This feature did not make it into AmigaVision Professional, 
> but we are seriously considering it for future AV versions.

Stop considering. Start programming :-)
michael
From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:55:46 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <15520@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes:
>
>So if I'm building a rectangular button, I can set up a rectangle, and AVP will
>show me the size and position values for it - (so far so good :-) ). Now, if
>I've previously drawn a picture of several buttons in a paint package, and I
>want to use one of those button drawings as the image for the button I'm
>building in AV, I can select _part_ of the paint package picture to use as the
>image for my AV button, correct? What I was wondering, is does the AV numeric
>readout include something that tells me that the currently displayed part of
>the image starts at <x,y> pixels into the paint package image?

No. AmigaVision Professional will only tell you the X-Y co-ordinates of an
object within the Object Editor screen. It will not give you offset values
when using a full-screen image as a Brush object. 

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: "james purchase" <james.purchase@canrem.com>
Subject: amigavision
Reply-To: "james purchase" <james.purchase@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:52:34 EST

to: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com

To:   Catherine Godfrey - CATS

Subject: AmigaVision & Workbench

Has any thought been given to allowing AmigaVision to access the
Workbench enviornment? I would like to be able to use the database
features of AmigaVision in a program, but wish to have the program
operate in a Workbench window, NOT on a separate screen.

Commodore has made a big deal about AmigaVision as being a top-notch
presentation program, but you seem to be ignoring the much wider world
of general purpose programming. Since dropping AmigaBasic, you haven't
brought anything forward to replace it.

Please don't refer me to CanDo, I have it and use it, but it can't match
AmigaVision in the ability to set up DBase programs.

If Commodore gave AmigaVision the ability to access the Workbench
enviornment, and the coming availability of a run-time player, I don't
think anyone would miss AmigaBasic.

James Purchase
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
From: ele0135@sys.uea.ac.uk (D. Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500Color printer for sale $490
Date: 14 Oct 92 11:58:23 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

What power supply does it run on??

Im from the UK and you should know. I have written to you in the past about your
new designs for the amiga (Multi-kickstart Board).




mike@struad.uucp (Michael Cianflone) writes:

>For sale: HP Deskjet 500C color printer. The printer is in excellent
>condition and works perfectly. It prints in 300 dots per inch in black and
>in color. THe printer has been used *very* rarely and is in spotless
>condition.
>                        $490 + shipping.


>--
From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: STAR-MICRONICS XB2410 color printer
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:26:01 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Howdy,

I have a Star-micronics XB2410 color printer that I am interested in selling.
It is in perfect condition, barely used.

It is a 24 pin printer, with color kit installed.

I am asking $350.00.

Replies to:
esantos@ee.cornell.edu
From: Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Atonce Plus Sold
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:36:44 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

Thanks to all those who replied to my ad for the Atonce Plus again.  I sold
it yesterday.
 
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:8168 misc.forsale.computers:36964
From: IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO)))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Quantum 42M ProDrive/Hardframe 2000 *MUST GO*
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:37:55 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

I have a Quantum 42 Meg Prodrive for sale. I no longer have a use for it with
my new CDTV.  I would like to sell it WITH the HardFrame controller, but will
consider seperate bids just the same.

Hardframe 2000 controller. A DMA design for high transfer rates. Still one of
the fastest.
               Both yours for only $200 or Best Offer.

Make an offer on one or both. Both MUST GO as I have no use for them without a
2000.  All offers considered.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
From: royle@manvmd1.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: MAX MEMORY on the a500
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 19:45:54 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
Keywords: hmmm...
Followup-To: royle@manvmd1.vnet.ibm.com



Hmm. This is a followup, sort of, to my previous post of how much memory
can the Amiga 500 handle.

The next question is:

  Have I screwed myself in this situation... I just purchased (on the way)
an 8 meg board that connects to my Hard Drive, I have in my system already
the AdRam500 board with 4 megs. (I currently have 4.5 megs of memory)

 Will this work?  Can both of those Ram boards work together? I would
assume so, because other memory boards worth with the A501 and similar
devices, so wouldnt they work with the AdRam?
  Am I totally stoned?  Did I just screw myself?  If I did, I may have some
memory for sale... Please respond soon...

-- 
Tearing my hair out over this...
   -Matthew Royle                  |  "Blood and Souls for my Lord Arioch!"
     royle@manvmd1.vnet.ibm.com    |           -Elric of Melnibone'
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From: kitkowsk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kenneth Kitkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: FORSALE:  Amiga 500 system
Keywords: Amiga A500
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:12:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	I'm posting this A500 system for a friend:

        Hardware (includes all cables)
        ------------------------------
	-A500 w/ A501 512K memory expansion (total= 1 Meg)
	-Commodore 1084 RGB color monitor
	-Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem
	-Epson JX-80 9-pin dot matrix printer
	 or
	-Okidata Microline 92 9-pin dot matrix printer


        Software (all original with manuals)
        ------------------------------------
        -AmigaDOS (Workbench) v.1.3
        -AmigaExtras and AmigaBasic
        -ProWrite (word processor)
        -Kindwords (word processor)
        -Diga! (telecommunications program)
        -The Bard's Tale II (fantasy RPG)
        -Swords of Twilight (fantasy RPG)
        -Sculpt 3D (ray tracing prog. It's "broken" and I have no "disk doctor"
				                      but I think it's fixable)
        -The Three Stooges (Cinemaware game. Also broken but also prob fixable)

I don't know the exact value of this complete system (ie. computer, monitor,
printer, modem, and software) but I est. it's worth about $550-$600 incl.
shipping.  I know my friend needs the money pretty bad (to pay for college) so
make an offer.

My e-mail address: kitkowsk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ken Kitkowski)
or you can phone my friend Seth Schulte: (215) 382-0578

Thanx, 
Ken Kitkowski


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: A2000 and parts for sale: UK
Organization: City University, London
Distribution: uk
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:51:39 GMT

I am now selling a loaded A2000, preferably together, but I can
separate:
 
A2000HD: 40M Quantum on A2091, 2 floppies, flickerfixer, multisync
         monitor, 3M ram, WB2.04/1.3 with switch.

A2286 Bridgeboard: High density 3.5/5.25 floppy drive, MS-DOS 4.01.

Accelerator: 68020/20MHz, 68882/25MHz, 3M 32bit ram.

Software: Protext 4.3, Transwrite, Dr T's Copyist, EOBII, XenonII.

Please email to discuss.

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
From: mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Re: We sell AMIGA hardware!
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:43:28 GMT



  Hey DUDE your prices are OUTRAGEOUS. 
  My advice, don't bother posting them please, your're only wasting
  bandwidth here.


Mubashir.