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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Graphics Modes
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:08:05 GMT

In article <doiron.0gpv@starpt.UUCP> doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron) writes:
>In article <BwunsK.MKJ@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>> In article <petter.084l@pnilsen.UUCP> cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>> >In article <jam.2549@jammys.ocunix.on.ca> jam@jammys.ocunix.on.ca (James McOrmond) writes:
>> >
>> >> I've read somewhere that the ECS chipset can do an 800*600 display.  Is
>> >> this true?  Or is the AGA chipset required?  I've got a friend with an
>> >> A3000 system, and some sort of monitor, and he wants to get an 800*600
>> >> display.
>> >
>> >This is true, I do 800x600, DblPAL and DblNTSC without any problems except
>> >for the reduced colour range. I use an A1950 monitor with my A3000 running
>> >OS 3.0.
>> 
>>    AT LAST!!!  A CONFIRMATION THAT I AM RIGHT!!!!
>
>NOT!!!
>
>>    I stated that the DblNTSC and DblPAL modes on the A4000 are not generated
>> using any fancy new hardware and are acheivable on any Amiga with the ECS
>> (though with more limited color capabilities) and someone has finally
>> confirmed that I am right.  
>
>Dingaling.  DblPAL and DblNTSC give you 640x512 and 640x400 screens on ECS.
>Absolutely no scan doubling.  Can't be done without the Alice chip.

   I never said that scan doubling could be done with the ECS.  Scan doubling
(more properly called "line doubling") is a different entity from the DblPAL
and DblNTSC modes.  

>Amiga UUCP+
>Origin:  uunet.uu.net!starpt.UUCP!doiron (Organization:68K Software Development)
>         BIX: gdoiron
>** Not enough memory to perform requested operation.  Add 4 megs and retry.


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From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: A4000 help...
Date: 11 Nov 92 05:56:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.BxJF5u.CrC
Organization: Purdue University


     Mhere might I find a GIF reader for my A4000?  Also, I have ordered
the Expert 4-D direct from Genisoft, but I am not certain if I still
need another software to fill the line drawings?  Please note that I would
prefer 'AA' compatibility, but I can ive otherwise.

                                                          -TKH '92
 
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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:14:07 GMT

In article <69307@cup.portal.com> blackbelt@cup.portal.com
(Ben - Williams) writes:

>Imagemaster V9 is not 2.0 style guide complaint...
>Imagemaster V10, which we are hard at work on, can be and will likely come out
>of the box that way.

Please! Now that 3.0 is shipping with the A1200 and A4000 series machines,
it is inevitable that users will come to expect a high-resolution,
2.0 compliant configuration.

>However, Imagemaster V10 actually has a totally user-
>configurable user interface. So, if the user prefers the previous interface,
>they will be able to make it look that way if they like.

Sounds terrific.

>In fact, you can pass around your user-interfaces... so, if an artist were to
>prepare a beautiful UI for Imagemaster, he could give (or sell) it to you and
>you'd have the benefit of that artist's vision. Images, text gadgets, user
>configurable windows and graphs are all part of IM V10.

I can see this as being particularly useful in professional environments.
Looks like you guys have been keeping busy :).

>So in short, the answer is not now, but soon - and then, we'll be going
>beyond all other programs for UI by leaps and bounds.
>Hope that covers your question sufficiently.

You bet. I'm looking forward to seeing V10.
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: ANIM5-Player with AGA-Support wanted
Date: 9 Nov 1992 13:29:31 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: berlin.uni-paderborn.de
Keywords: aga anim5

	Hi,

I search for ANIM5-Player with AGA-Support. RTap and ShowANIM refuse to show
any AGA-Anims. View 3.2 shows them sometimes, but after a few frames the
graphics is corrupted.

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: "hammed malik" <hammed.malik@canrem.com>
Subject: graphics modes
Reply-To: "hammed malik" <hammed.malik@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:00:28 EST

>Oh really?  Then why can't I get DblNTSC:High Res and DblNTSC:Low Res
>on my A3000?  Very simple, Marc:  DblNTC and DblPAL use special
>features of Alice to get those resolutions and scan rates.  If ECS
>could do scan doubling, then we could also do mode promotion on
>A3000's, but it can't so we don't.

I haven't checked DblNTSC but Super72 modes do work on 3000s, you just
have to turn off the flicker fixer.

Hammed Malik
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From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: A4000 help...
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:59:26 GMT
Organization: The DSV institute of Stockholm, Sweden
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Tommy Hwang (thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:

: Mhere might I find a GIF reader for my A4000?

If you want to do that sort of things you should purchase Art Department
Professional. It'll be a very wise buy.

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From: amipb@amipb.gna.org (Philippe Berard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA Software (The Quest begins)
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:21:34 GMT
Organization: IWANIMA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <36433@cbmvax.commodore.com> chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) writes:
> In article <1992Oct27.195606.16028@news.ysu.edu> af987@yfn.ysu.edu (Adam Benjamin) writes:
> >
> >
> >I am looking for ANY and ALL programs that you know of that support
> >256 and/or 256K colors.  I know ADPro does (but which versions?))

    ADPRO v2.13 supports the VGA/256 col/HAM-8 modes.

> >I am MOST eagerly searching for GIF/TARGA viewers (PD/shareware)
> >and anim builders/players.
> >I'm sure others would like this list so I will sumarize when I get the
> >info.
> >
>
> 	FinalCopy II supports AGA, meaning that it will allow
> opening up to a 256 color screen. It will also use the 3.0 palette
> mapping features when run on the workbench so as to remap its
> graphics without interfering with other applications color use.
>
> 	There's also supposed to be a version of the POV raytracer
> around that supports 8 bit ham.

    The first game in AGA will be out soon : ZOOL. And DeluxePaint
    4.5 is supposed to use the new modes too. ImageMaster 9.21 uses
    the AGA also.

    Sincerely,
                                   -- Philippe

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From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: A4000 display placement
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:48:08 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Berend Ozceri (bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:

> However, I noticed one problem (irritation): The DblNTSC mode shows way
> to much to the right on my C1960 monitor. Even if I turn the horizontal

On my system also.  Solution: instead of promoting to DblNTSC, promote
to that productivity PAL mode which is also 640x400 non-interlace, but
which shows up reasonably centered.

   - steve
From: tsui@ils.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: ALADDIN
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:20:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences

this was sent out to the DCTV mailing list, thats why i'm emphasizing DCTV:

Okay, I've had a week to play with this program and I think I should give a
little review on it:

For starters, this is a great DCTV product.  It can output to Opalvision,
Firecracker, and Resolver also but since DCTV is our format of choice I'll
concentrate on that.

Literally shitloads of different 3D options.  I'm not a pro at 3d but have been
playing with DRAW 4D PRO for awhile.  ALADDIN is a serious upgrade to that
program.  Here's a list of things I've used so far:

animated texture maps (series of DCTV format frames sequentially numbered, the
program automatically compiles them)

amazing ripple and wave effects (many options)

reflection mapping (no ray tracing but the can be faked very easily this way)

unlimited colored animated lights

morphing (in combination with animated texture maps dissolving from one to
another)

endless layering of animations (any format)

and others.

The animation layering is very powerful for compositing layers of DCTV
animations and images on top of each other.  This can do a very cool
multi-plane looking animation (like the Fleischer Bros. POPEYE cartoons).  All
the composited animations were 2D and composited in 3D space.  I did one
animation of water rippling in suspended space with a video animation fading in
and out as it plays (the animation was a series of frames digitized from DCTV).

The fact that you can use DCTV images directly without having to convert to
IFF24 is a huge plus, especially for those with limited hard-drives.

The program can load any size textures (24bit, standard IFF, and DCTV) and is
very easy to texture map.  There's also procedural maps and bump mapping.

I think the best thing about the program is that there is a universal interface
to change different elements (textures, animation, morphing, etc).  Once you
learn one element, its very easy to use all the other tools and features.

I hope this helps others, like I said, i'm not a huge 3D expert but this
program has many tools to help even 2D animators.  

btw, I am not affiliated with the company (ADSPEC) in any way, they're just
really reliable.
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Important new Imagemaster released
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 20:58:55 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <68878@cup.portal.com> <36708@cbmvax.commodore.com>

Chris Green,

Chris, I found it - thanks. Still a bit wobbly with 3.0 myself. :^)

Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: cpb1001@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.P. Brown)
Subject: Re: DPaint V ???
Keywords: AGA, DPaint
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:10:35 GMT

|> Computability is advertising DeluxePaint IV AGA for 119.99 in their
|> Christmas catalog.  It supports 256 colors at hi resolutions and HAM8.
|> 
|> I just hope it uses the display database.

Saw DPaint AGA at the FES (aka World of Commodore) last Sunday running on an
A1200.
I didn't get a go myself, but it looked pretty good.

Chris Brown
From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 20:17:55 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

> o are any of these products compliant with the 2.0 Style Guide?
 
FRED, the Morphing front end, and all of the operators provided with MorphPlus 
are 2.0 Style Guide compliant.
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF is not Huffman (was: Re: GIF Viewers)
Date: 10 Nov 92 06:45:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov10.064503.12973
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you

pooler@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:

>JPEG uses either Huffman compression or a kind of mathematical compression
>algorithm that is patented by IBM (?)

Huh?

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Engineering Group, and it is a
compression standard developed by several different vendors.  I believe
the compression scheme is in the public domain.  It is based on Discrete
Cosine Transforms (DCT's) and is a lossy compression scheme.  I suggest
anyone interested look in the comp.compression newsgroup.

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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: GIF Viewers
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:54:53 GMT

   I use FastGIF and TurboGIF. I got them from wuarchive.wustl.edu, but 
  they don't seem to be listed in my copy of the ls-R.Z file. JimP.

-- 
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             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                     "Kill the Wabbit ! " Elmer Fudd.
From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
Subject: IFF8 & IFF miscellaneous questions
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 23:23:09 GMT

Let's say that I want to use a 256-color (8-bit) grey-scale image for a
depth map in Imagine.  Is there a way to do this without going to IFF24
which will encode it as three separate intensity images (RGB)?

Now that AGA is out, will there be an IFF form to allow 256-color palletes in
images (without resorting to IFF24)?

What are the current IFF forms with brief descriptions?  (Is there an FTP
site available for this?  Commodore should really place their PD source
code and software on commodore.com and allow anonymous FTP.)  Let me start:

	Graphics   ILBM  InterLeaved BitMap  (Various hunks for graphics modes)
	Music      SMUS  Standard MUSic  (no one uses)
	Text       FTXT  Formatted TeXT  (no one uses)
	...
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From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Ham8 and 256 color IFFS uploaded to hubcap.clemson.edu
Date: 8 Nov 92 07:25:30 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

I uploaded the following files to hubcap.clemson.edu
under pub/amiga/incoming/graphics

Plasma_256.lha (256 color plasma cloud generator)
vallejo.lha (beautiful HAM8 vallejo pic view in 640X480Xham8 VGA mode)
stftr2.lha (256 color and ham8 pics from SNES Street Fighter 2)

-Roger
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From: govil@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Shalini Govil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: IV24 vs DCTV
Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:24:50 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp. -- IC Group
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: elysium.warren.mentorg.com

Hi.. I was planning to buy some kind of 24bit graphic card for my 3000..
Does anyone know what the disadvantages of DCTV are over the IV24 to
warrant such a large differnce in price? 
Thanks in advance
Shalini


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin)
Subject: Best Full Colour Scanner for the Amiga ??
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:21:51 GMT




	Can anybody advise me on what is the best full colour
	scanner, one that is compatible with the Amiga.

	A couple of scanners are available locally (HP ScanJet IIc
	and the Espon 3000c ). But I do not know how they are
	attached/run on an Amiga.

	Any help would be greatly appreciated!


thanks in advance . . .

     The      O
     Wheel   /-
     Brat   ( )\_	varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca

     Reji Martin,   Prince Edward Island, Canada
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 11:39:45 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Tim Ciceran,

Imagemaster V9 is not 2.0 style guide complaint.

Imagemaster V10, which we are hard at work on, can be and will likely come out
of the box that way. However, Imagemaster V10 actually has a totally user-
configurable userinterface. So, if the user prefers the previous interface,
they will be able to make it look that way if they like.

In fact, you can pass around your user-interfaces... so, if an artist were to
prepare a beautiful UI for Imagemaster, he could give (or sell) it to you and
you'd have the benefit of that artist's vision. Images, text gadgets, user
configurable windows and graphs are all part of IM V10.

So in short, the answer is not now, but soon - and then, we'll be going
beyond all other programs for UI by leaps and bounds.

Hope that covers your question sufficiently.

Ben
From: shambarg@netcom.com (Scott Shambarger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 3.0 & color registers
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:52:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <Bx75tI.MJM@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>I do not understand how AmigaDos 3.0 deals with color registers.
>Perhaps someone can enlighten me?
>
>Here's the situation.  I know that there is some sort of color
>arbitration in 3.0 that tries to allocate color registers to the best
>set of colors it can.  This is useful to display, say, two 32 color
>pictures each with different palettes on a 32 color workbench.
>
>But here's what I don't understand.  I have a background picture on my
>workbench screen which uses 16 colors, all shades of red and blue.
>(Which I know because I made it myself in DPaint 4).  Several odd things
>happen:
>

Here's your problem right there.  I (as a developer) have politely
asked the system software designers to give the workbench application
more colors....sadly, since their object was to leave as many colors
open to other application windows as possible, they have limited the
maximum colors that can be used in workbench related activities to 8!

This means that your color background is being truncated to the
closest 8 colors.  This frustrated the hell out of me the first week I
had 3.0, since I had always run my 2.04 workbench in 16 colors.

For safety's sake, I just want to make clear that this does not mean
that the workbench screen can only be a maximum of 3 bits deep, but it
does mean that anything directly controled by workbench IS limited to
8 colors (the workbench "Pens").  This includes icons, backdrops and
any other workbench activity relating to the Prefs drawer.

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From: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (MD FROST)
Subject: Info on PP&S 040/500 Board?
Organization: CompSci Dept., Aston University, U.K.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:09:48 GMT

Does any A500 owner out there use Progressive`s 040/500 board.

I am thinking about buying one (28mhz 4mb version) and would like to know
what owners of this board think about it. There are some questions I would
like answered about it:

1) Kickstarts. 

It comes with 2.04 on board, I have 2.04 and 1.3 switchable, presumably then
I can remove my board replace the 1.3 chip and sell my other chip.
I understand kickstart selection is in software, is it a hold down mouse on
bootup method or what? Is the default ROM selectable or does it default to 2.x?

2) Processors

Again how is the fallback mode handled. 2.x menu style perhaps

3) What do you think.

How does your system perform against your friends.

If you can answer these questions and tell me a bit about the board, what you
think, have you had any probs could you please Email me at the address below.
I may even post a kind of Specs Sheet/Review if I get enough material.

Thanks for your help.
Matt



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From: sdelmont@nyx.cs.du.edu (Sebastian Delmont)
Subject: HELP!!! Info needed
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 05:09:16 GMT


Hello, I live in Venezuela (South America), a country with 20 million
people and only 2 amiga dealers (both of them are too expensive) and I'm
planing to buy an A4000 (To replace my 5 years old A500).
I'll buy the A4000 at USA, from a Mail Order, a store in Miami or New York
and I'm desperately looking for price and availability information.

If any of you could send me any information on those subjects, I'll be
really thankful.
I'm thinking about an A4000 with a MultiSinc monitor (A decent one).
Again, I want to know, 1st., how much does such a setup costs, 2nd. where
can I get it (Mail Order, Miami or NY) and 3rd., is it available now?

Thanks, really, and Oh, I almost forgot, please reply using email to
sdelmont@conicit.ve.

I'll be looking for any answer. Please, I know that many of you have
bought such setups, just write to me telling me how much have you payed
for it and where did you bought it...

Thanks again.

                      Sebastian Delmont   <sdelmont@conicit.ve>

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