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From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Kodak PhotoCD
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 18:57:59 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep12.125138.632@pro-freedom.cts.com>

>I heard that they bought the rights to Black Belt Systems HAM-E and not
>DCTV.  I also heard that they *might* try to incorporate DCTV psudo 24-bit
>technology into any new versions of the CDTV... rumors, rumors...
>
>|Edward E. Brown II               | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com  |

I just saw Kodak's PhotoCD and I was very impressed!! DCTV in CDTV is
mandatory if CBM really expects to get CDTV into this market!

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: REND104F.LZH now on Hubcap
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 92 16:07:13 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Due to popular demand, I've just put the wonderful JPEG loader/viewer/
IFFsaver "Rend104f.lzh" up on hubcap.clemson.edu in the 
pub/amiga/incoming/graphics.tools directory.  Login via anonymous
FTP and grab it and enjoy.

Harv
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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:04:11 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia


>
>       The definite highlight of today (even over seeing
> Kiki Stockhammer in person and various other celebrities :)
> was Louis Eggebrecht's, VP (not president like I said
> yesterday) of engineering, keynote talk.  The talk focused
> on the engineering aspects of Commodore.  There are
  .......

> of 100Hz.  The processor slot would be 32-bit and processor
> independent.  He mentioned RISC processors, but said
> nothing more.  Wow is all I can say at this point.  But,
> he wasn't through yet.
>
>       Eggebrecht next went on to talk about the upcoming
> product features.  AGA will be incorporated into all
> upcoming Amiga products.  All future Amiga computers
> would be modular allowing you to add stuff like RISC
> processors (he said it again!).  Commodore realizes
  .......


        I have only 1 thing to say re: Amiga + RISC.

        Please, please, please, please, please, please, ALPHA!
        (although MC88x00 is the more obvious option).

           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
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Subject: ** MakeAnim by Keith Doyle ?? ***
From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:26:28 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Could someone please post to the net the PD animation utility MakeAnim
by Keith Doyle. I guess it must be on a fish disk somewhere, but
I don't have any access to those disks for at least another month, and
seem to be having considerable trouble compiling long ANIM 5 format anims
from within Imagine 2.0.

If it's not too much trouble, of course.
AdvaTHANKSnce,
Matt.
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From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: A Study in Balance
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:19:36 MDT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Sep15.175733.25962@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
> In article <1992Sep15.151355.29326@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>>Marc, seriously, what exactly do you want C= to do?  what is your dream
>>computer... just tell us.
> 
>    What I wanted from a next-generation Amiga, in short, was a new system
> as well-balanced as the A1000, and which offered the same level of improvements
> throughout the system.  I wanted to see sound capabilities improved to 16-bits,
> a new copper capable of handling all of the new palette registers with the
> same ease that the copper in the ECS handles the palette registers in that
> chipset, a new blitter that can blit data with the same fluidity in 
> 1280x400x8 that the old blitter did in 320x200x6, much greater chip RAM
> addressing (preferably to 24-bit), improved resolutions on the same level
> as the improvements in everything else, and the adoption of the floptical
> drives to keep pace with the new storage needs from the improved video.
> 
>    I am dissatisfied with the A4000 primarily because it is not a well-balanced
> system that offers balanced upgrades across the board.  The improvements that
> the A4000 offers are almost entirely in the area of color, with few 
> improvements in anything else.
> 
> ---
> | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
>        [ Around three hundred lines of carriage returns deleted ]
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>             
> 
> 
> 

  Marc, what the hell is all those empty spaces for?  Trying to "balance"
  your whining with white space?

  Another question:

    If the A4000 is so "unbalanced", what machine would you call "balanced"
    that offers a compairable feature set of the A4000 for under $3000
    steet-price?


  Greetings,

	Travis Carter
	slbfn@cc.usu.edu
From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: AADPro
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:39:38 GMT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.23 (Sep 12 1992)


Details!  Details!  What does ADPRO give with an A4000 machine?  What
modes does an A4000 HAVE when used with ADPRO?  

In spite of 17k C= spec files, I (and everyone else) know next to
NOTHING about the machine.  For example, what are the tech specs on the
new chips?  How fast does it run AIBB 4.5.8?  DETAILS....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: viewing .gl animation files
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 9 Sep 92 08:39:57 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <Bu9EpL.AG5@foobar.dab.ge.com> by carl@lochness.DAB.GE.COM (Carl Wilson):

>     Can someone out there please tell me if there are 
> any tools out there to .gl animation files on the amiga?

    AmiGRASP and GL 1.3 will play some .GL animations "as is" on an
    Amiga. AmiGRASP does HAM while GL does grayscale.

> And if not, is there a way to convert them to amiga format
> animation files.

    GL 2.0 contains a couple of programs, GLIB and PIC2HL, that let
    you convert MS-DOS GL animations to Amiga ones. PIC2HL is an
    input module for HamLab that handles the .PIC and .CLP files in
    many GLs.

> 					Carl Wilson
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: chizzoni@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (alfredo chizzoni)
Subject: DEUTEROS HELP, please
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 08:55:34 GMT

Hi friends, I'm stuck in deuteros (here in Italy distribution is a BIT slow);
I'm enjoing it very much but I can't exit form solar sistem, I suppose I need
some sort of hyperdrive but that my dumb level 3 scientist can't find one.
Any hint on this game would be really appreciated.

/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\
	  Alfredo Chizzoni   E-mail:chizzoni@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it	
		COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT - Milan University
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Kodak PhotoCD
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:15:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep13.001555.647
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > I just saw Kodak's PhotoCD and I was very impressed!

Should be nice visually but the concept is far from exciting, IMO.


 > DCTV in CDTV is mandatory if CBM really expects to get CDTV into this
 > market!

Yeah?  Well so is having CD-ROM drives available on ALL Amiga models. 
Otherwise, the tiny software base will NOT entice developers to create nice
CD-ROM software titles.  Oh, sure... there'll be loads of cheapo copies of
standard Amiga software made available on CD-ROM disks but that's hardly
what CD-ROM disk is all about and it definitely is NOT what users want or
expect.  CDTV needs a certain critical mass to achieve the goals that C=
apparently has for it.  Without CD-ROM for all Amigas, that mass is VERY
unlikely to develop within the forseeable future.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago)
Subject: Re: double hard drive capacity??? NOT
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:42:23 GMT

In article <ciH2qB1w165w@micromed.com> diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld) writes:
>DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
>
>> hard disk!"  It's a flat out lie!  if you store NOTHING but WordPerfect 
>> text files and un-run-length-encoded pictures then maybe Stacker can
>> double your disk space... but then, Is that all YOU have on YOUR hard disk?
>> 
>
>I have Stacker on my 200meg HD and I get an average 1:1.7 compression 
>average on 160megs of files. Not 2x but not bad. There are almost no text 
>files in that either , mostly programs and data. I see no delay in 
>compression or decompression. I wish Stacker was for the Amiga also!

    Someting like Stacker or SuperStor is *painfully* needed on the Amiga.
I use Stacker on several 486s storing mostly 24-bit Targa renderings, and
get 1:1.5 to 1:1.8 average compression, and (believe it or not) *improved*
hard disk access speeds, due to the smaller size of the files, and the speed
of the processer. The Targa images are *all* in the run-length-encoded format.

    Please, somebody, make a Stacker-like product for the Amiga. 

                                      Chris Williams
                                         katefans@chinet.chi.il.us
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:33:39 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <2bwn6wj@lynx.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.201126.29937@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> msnider@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com (Marc A. Snider x0193) writes:
>>Well, for what it's worth, I just got this info from a local dealer.  He
>>had just received the info via fax (circa 2:30pm eastern time).
>>
>>      - '040 running at 25mhz
>>
>>      - standard graphic modes up to 1280x400 (more with overscan)
>>
>>      - up to 256,000 colors from a 16.8 million color palette
>>
>>      - 120 meg hard drive  (yes, connected to IDE on board controller)
>>
>>      - 2 megs chip ram
>>
>>      - 6 megs fast ram expandle to 16 meg using SIMMS
>>
>>      - NTSC 15/31 hz scan rate switchable
>>
>>      - AmigaDOS 3.0 including crosstalk(for reading and writing IBM PC
>>                                         formatted files)
>>
>>      - 150 watt power supply
>>
>>      - 4 Zorro III slots, 3 PC AT slots
>>
>>      - 3 1/2" 880k floppy drive
>>
>>      
>>Apparently they'll be offering an optional SCSI controller.  He didn't
>>know any more than this.  If anyone knows more info, like how many
>>colors at 640x480 (overscan), hurry up and post, will ya!!!
>>
>>
>>suggested retail is $3699.00.     BTW didn't C= buy the rights to DCTV a
>>while back?  And if so what are they using it for (paperweight?)?  It
>>sure doesn't seem to be in the new box...
>>
>>M. Snider
>>msnider@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
>>
>
>I wouldn't go spreading stuff like that. From Amazing computing, 
>the only thing that has been reported, as a rumor, 
>is CBM is thinking about releasing a 640x480 8-bit 
>graphics chip for the Amigas. I can believe that. 
>CBM has never made moves like the one you suggest and 
>they probably never will. 
>
>In the PC world people are talking about 586's even though there is 
>no proof that there is a 586, but people are talking. 
>
>Right now, I could find you a Intel based machine that 
>would have all the things you mentioned for about 2000 
>bucks, only using a 33mhz 486 and a local bus ( which is 
>synced with the CPU running it). 
>
>For what it is worth, of course.

HELLO, BUELLER??????

What he posted *ARE* the actual specs of the 4000.  It was rolled out yesterday
at the WOC show in Pasadena.  East Coast rollouts will be on the 16 and 17th
of this month.

My only correction is that it will do a little over 262,000 colors in high
res HAM8 from a pallete of 16.7 million--not 256,000 colors :)


Show me a 486 that can do *THAT*!!!!!! out of the box

This machine is using the same CPU technology as the Mac Quadra 9000--with
better sound and practically as good vide FOR A THIRD OF THE PRICE!!!!!

Sure the Quadra has 24 bit color, but you still can't do full screen 3ps
animations on it!

GO COMMODORE!!!!

Jeff Hanna
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From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:23:49 GMT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.23 (Sep 12 1992)


You can't go from a II, IIx, IIfx to a Quadra. Moreover, going from a IIci
to a Quadra 700 is not cost effective.

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

----

Philip, you need to check with Apple.  Right in front of me I have a
spec sheet from Apple.  The IIci or IIcx can go straight to the Quadra. 
Cost?  $2600.  For 24 bit color and a superfast 040, that isn't too bad.



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From: rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:10:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <ROBIN.92Sep14110151@vipunen.hut.fi> robin@vipunen.hut.fi (Jarto 'Robin' Tarpio) writes:
>Believe what you want. Note, however that this was not written by a
>Commodore employee or representative. Neither was it written by a
>developer. Do not spread it !!!!

No, it was written by a guy who went to the show and takes very good
notes.  None of the really neat stuff exist yet, but what was posted
were the design goals that they are working on.  I'd guess that the
2-chip machine is 1.5 years away (pure speculation on my part), and
the 4-chip set 3-5 years down the road.  Spread the post as you
will, just don't let it affect your buying plans.

Rick

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Re: Amiga+Toaster used to create "Babylon 5" TV show
Keywords: Computer graphics for prime-time TV show.
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:39:48 GMT

In <3114@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:

>An Amiga application making the big time: The computer graphics for the
>upcoming TV show "Babylon 5" is being done on an Amiga with Video Toaster.

My boss just said he'd bet me 100 pounds (~US$200) that the Video Toaster
would be an "unsupported product" (ie. dead) within two years, since it was
getting outdated, and other systems were doing newer features for less cost.
He said it just hadn't caught on.

(My boss owns a company that sells Macs - I am currently doing some
programming work on them for him until I've paid off a couple of debts, and
not one second longer. :-) )

Question is: Is he correct? Why? Why not?

>Joe Smith (408)922-6220     BTNA GNS Major Programs, TYMNET Global Network

Barry.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 7 Sep 1992 23:21:07 CDT
From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Lacepointer

Thanks much to all the people who responded to my post about Lacepointer. For
future information I wanted to tell everyone that the program isn't on wuarchiv
e anymore (at least from what I could see).  Once again thanks much!

Jason Kratz
From: rjc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Problem with No New Copper in A4000
Date: 16 Sep 92 03:33:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Sep16.033328.11457
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Sep15.023838.16397@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>
>   There is one thing about the AGA chipset that I've forgotten to mention. 
>This is the drawbacks to the lack of improvements to the copper.  In the
>ECS, the copper requires 2 scanlines to update the palette registers between
>pull-down screens.  The AGA Lisa chip now has many more palette registers,
>but the copper has not been updates accordingly.  The result is bigger
>blank space between pull-down screens on the AGA chipset.  A total of 11
>scanlines of space, in fact.  Thus, you can write off enhanced equivelents
>to the Dynamic HiRes or SHAM modes for the AGA chipset.

   Wrong. First of all, SHAM never changed the entire set of 16 base
registers per scanline, only DHAM did, and DHAM was very sensitive to
CPU speed (in fact, it shut down multitasking). The new MP Chunk
(multipalette) specification allows you to change as little or as many
registers per line as you can.  For instance, MP can only change 4
colors in 640x400x4. MP only changes 8 I believe when in HAM.
Sliced modes _do not_ have to alter all 256 or 64 registers to be useful.

  Let's say you can change a max of 16 colors per line in HAM8. What you
do, is for each scanline, figure out 16 colors which are "least used"
and best dithered or approximated with a HAM change. Then you alter
those 16 colors to colors that have priority (have no close representation
using dithering or HAM changes).

   For instance, let's say you have a picture containing mostly gigantic
red cherries and green leaves, with a single bluish plaid logo in the center. 
For most of the screen, your entire 64 base colors are reds, greens, whites,
and browns.  When you get to the line containg the first plaid color
(with high contrast), you eliminate some of your reds and greens
(which can be dithered or HAMed) and poke in some bluish plaid.

   The only time you need to do this anyway is when you need to eliminate
banding or need some high contrast.  In short, HAM8 with MP chunks will
look better than SVGA, (approximating 24bit), consume less memory, and
have faster animation.

   Since HAM8 will work in all modes, you could display a 640x480x24
pic in 1280x512 or 800x600 and use dithering instead of palette changes.

No problem at all.
  

  
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: david_s@hsr.no (David Andreas Sjoeen)
Subject: Re: Commodore announces A4000 with AGA (AA) graphics chips
Reply-To: david-s@ifi.hsr.no
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:57:51 GMT

In article <3117@tardis.Tymnet.COM>, jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:

> The A600 is for real and is for sale, as is the A570 CD-ROM drive for the
> A500.  Pictures of the A600 are in both Amiga World and Amazing Computing.
> Imagine taking a saw to a regular Amiga keyboard and cutting off everything
> to the right of the left cursor key.  That is, chop the DEL key in half,
> get rid of the up, down and right cursor keys, the HELP key, and the numeric
> keypad.  The cursor keys are under the shift key on the A600 and the HELP
> key is next to F10.  The A600 is designed to be less expensive to
> manufacture, and is not expandable the same was as the A500.  It is best
> suited for the low-end users who do not plan to add anything to their
> machine other than an external floppy and a second meg of internal memory.

Why wasn't the Amiga 600 introduced before now in the US? My brother has
had an A600 for two months now...
 
:)avid

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Imagine 2.0 and the ANIM 5 format --- HELP!!
From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:14:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

I rendered a 30 frame animation in 320x512 interlaced HAM, in ANIM format,
and made it a looping anim. By rights, this should have tacked the first
two frames of my animation onto the end, just as DPaint 4 does.
I used DPaint 4 to load in my anim, and it choked on it about three quarters
of the way through and crashed my 3000 with a horrible NTSC black flickery
screen (not even a guru).

So then I tried playing the anim with PPAnim (i did not compress it), and it
played through the first loop fine, but then as soon as it got back to the
start, there were horrible remnants of the previous screens all over the
anim for all successive loops.

So then I re-rendered it (i had deleted the files as I went - bad move) in
80x103 (one sixteenth of the screen), this time with looping anim flag turned
off, and PPAnim had no problem, neither did DPaint (apart from the lack
of palette swapping between frames).

What I want to know is, can a true looping ANIM 5 format be produced within
Imagine, or will I have to make do with a slight jump at the end of each
loop?? PPAnim as I understand it can play looping anims, but not simulate
them from non-looping ones, is that right??

Anyone got anything that might help??
AdvaTHANKSnce,
Matt.
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From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Wanted: IFF-specifications
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:35:10 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

I would like a *textfile* that describes how IFF-HAM, IFF-SHAM and the 
Dynamic formats work.

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