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From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Why CBM sucks!
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:43:50 GMT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.23 (Sep 12 1992)



Your first paragraph sounded pretty good, Simon.



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From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: VideoToaster in PAL?
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:19:41 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

Any news about the PAL version of NewTek's VideoToaster?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Apology 
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 08:16:49 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I'm sorry, I have no right to judge the other users of the amiga community. 

I just get a bit disatisfied with amiga users when they say something
that will cause rumors that are far more untruthful and far more 
destructive than helpful. I guess we all must use our own 
critical thinking about what people see here and elsewhere. 

I have see so many developers and companies cheat amiga users 
that I wonder why I still own an Amiga after all these years. 

I tend to think twice and wait a year before I buy something 
like more ram or a commercial program. You just can't 
assume that the first release of a program or a piece of hardware 
or such will be perfect the first time. 

It is wise to know the physical limitations of things such 
as graphics cards on the general multi-platform scale 
before buying a graphics card right now. Right now, 
as I understand, some company could release a 24-bit 
640x480 graphics card with a super fast accelerator chip
for under 600 dollars, non-interlaced. This is the ruler 
I judge amiga graphics cards by. I understand how 
graphics cards work (in general) that I'm not as impressed 
about certain Amiga hardware as everyone else is. 
 
If the Video toaster (for instance) used the Amiga 3000's 
bus rather than the 2000's you could move pictures 
to and from the Video Toaster much faster than what is 
claimed for the 2000, but you can't expect NewTek 
to re-think a pice of hardware and software 
that was pieced together and probably written on a 
assembly-code level. This fame will only last about 
a year or two more, I estimate. At the rate 
things are being developed for the PC, things should 
be developed in less than 2 years that will meet 
or exceed the Toaster in every area. For now, NEW-TEK 
must see how much money they can drain out of the public 
then they'll start a bigger company (similar to SONY)
that will work on high-end hardware/software and 
will probably dump the Amigas. 

That is my prediction. Take it or leave it. 

For now, I will wait until Windows NT comes out 
and until chips such as the P5/P6 come out. 
The 66mhz 486's (with clock doublers) exist 
and are double that speed internally, or 132mhz 
386 if you want to call it that. Those systems go for
under 3000 bucks and the graphics cards are just as amazing (and cheaper)
as Amiga graphics cards. 

Just remember, no body or no thing is untouchable, just 
commercial exagerations make it seem that way.
From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Viewing Non-Standard JPG's
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:20:44 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

manhart@CS.UWLAX.EDU (Greg Manhart) writes:

> Does anyone know of a program to convert the non-standard jpeg created by 
> Image Alchemy for the i*m, to a format I can view.  I have tried rend24 and
> djpeg but can get neither to work.

As far as I know you can't but I belive there is a switch or something 
in Alchemy that allows you to convert to proper JPEG and not the Jovian 
JPEG or what it's called...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: eriks@ifi.uio.no (Erik Saastad)
Subject: Re: REAL3D => Reality
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:07:18 GMT
Originator: eriks@ondur.ifi.uio.no


The upgrade is probably worth it. In Oslo this weekend there was an annual event
called ASO (Amiga Symposium Oslo). Vesa Meskanen of realsoft was ther to show
us the new version 2.0. It`s definitely a major upgrade. F.ex. Mapping of
different pictures on each frame (animation on a cone?), Gravity and weighth
mapping, handlers for all mappings (bump, textures, etc.) so that you can put
in a function that for instance varies with time. Own script language, a scene
can be saved as an ascii file. Realsoft plans to port the rendring engine to
different platforms. You can then export your ascii files, and render them on
a sparc, (maybe an alfa based digital machine) , and afterwards bring the
pictures back to the amiga.

There was a lot of other features as well, (Objects changing their form as
they accelerated along a path, and a lot more.) I`m not a 3d artist, and dont
even use this program, so dont ask me. People that have used Real3d, Imagine
etc, were amazed. A lot of the new stuff is things that have formerly only
been found on silicone Grapics machines.

Erik S. Oslo, Norway. 
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From: ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org (Ottmar Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ** MakeAnim by Keith Doyle ?? ***
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:33:02 GMT
Organization: Atelier Roehrig

In article <1992Sep10.012628.5144@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       ) writes:
>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

It is distributed along with the disks for DCTV.

Ottmar
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:11:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep13.001117.647
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > Sorry, but the 4000 still uses the same Paula chip as all the other
 > Amigas.  That means it has the same sound and the same floppy
 > throughput.  The drives are of the elusive dual speed type.


 S I G H....   :-/




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Reply-To: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:41:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.180411.90091@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>
>        I have only 1 thing to say re: Amiga + RISC.
>
>        Please, please, please, please, please, please, ALPHA!
>        (although MC88x00 is the more obvious option).

	Alpha is a bit expensive, atleast currently. It costs more
	than $10,000 even in large quantities.
>
>           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
>                    DOD# 251  '84 VF 750   Closet Ducatisto
>             Disclaimer. If you love your llama, let it lambada.
	-Janne
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From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: AADPro
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 22:17:52 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Well, I can finally announce that the shipping ADPro (for about a year now)
has fully supported the AA machines (including the new A4000). We simply
couldn't tell anyone. 

If you run ADPro 2XX on such a machine, a bunch of new display modes 
automatically become enabled. 

AA is wonderful. And we at ASDG are glad to have played a small role 
in bringing it to life (ADPro was used to help debug the chip set). 

pk
From: ESRLPDI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Ivan Ivanick)
Subject: Re: Amiga+Toaster used to create "Babylon 5" TV show
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:05:29 PDT

In article <65830@cup.portal.com>, on 14 Sep 92 00:29:49 PDT,
FisKer@cup.portal.com (Scott M Martin) writes:
>Random musings:
>At the latest First Amiga User's Group meeting, Allen Hastings (creator of
>Lightwave) showed a tape with some Babylon Five footage that was
>absolutely spectacular. He mentioned that the B5 team is actually a beta-
>site for the next release of Lightwave.  Allen says that his main
>competitor for Lightwave is Autodesk (on the PC).  Allen said that the
>tape he showed didn't even have the best Toaster work done on it -- Warner
>Brothers wants to keep the good stuff under wraps until the February
>premiere.

According to some NewTeker whose name escapes me at the LAVTUG/NewTek
special showing Saturday after the Commodore show, Ron Thornton has
really been pushing them hard for things he needs/wants in LW 3.0.
While he was not able to tell us the stuff that will be in 3.0, of
course, he did say that there will be a completely LW created scene
in (I seem to recall) the pilot episode which would be just incredible.
Absolutely NO clues as to what this might be, though.

As LW 3.0 is slated for a December release (that's only set in mud at
this point) hopefully we'll get the capabilities before seeing the show.
>
Ivan I   esrlpdi@uclamvs
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: jpeg viewers
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 92 15:48:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>i have a jpeg viewer from public domain called VJPEG which is supposed
>to allow viewing of a jpeg picture. The problem with it is that it only
>views part of the picture and i cant figure out how to scroll (perhaps it
>doesnt have scroll??). can anyone explain how to view a full jpeg or how
>to scroll with VJPEG, or if someone can tell me the title and ftp site of
>a better JPEG viewer? Thanks in advance an please e-mail to:
>the vax account below.......Brian 
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Throw away VJPEG. It was cute but now it's replacable by a much 
superior shareware product called "Rend 1.04F". Look for it. 
Rend will load JPEGs and display them in dithered 16 color or HAM,
and let you save those formats back to disk. 

Eventually if you really want to get serious with JPEG and Amiga graphics,
buy ASDG's Art Dept. Professional. 

Harv
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: rend24.... jpeg???
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 92 12:46:49 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>OK, I downloaded Rend24 to try and view some jpegs, but when passing
>a .jpg file to it, it just tells me it isn't an IFF file...  I don't
>see any mention of jpeg in the docs.  So how do you view jpegs with this
>thing????
>
>Thanks!
>
>Rich...
>-- 

Are you using Rend24's interface or are you calling it as a shell
command? Since you didn't say I'll have to guess :) 
Try using its interface. Run the program and click on the button
in the upper right hand corner for the source image. A requester
opens up. Feed it a filename of a .jpeg image on your system,
wherever it is. Cycle thru the choices for the type of display
(color, HAM, grayscale etc). and then click the begin conversion
button at the bottom to start it. If you want to save the image to
an IFF file (HAM, Hi-res, whatever mode you selected to view it
in) then feed a filename to the "destination picture pattern"
string input gadget or use the requester button next to that gadget
before selecting "begin conversion." Use dithering for hi-res
color output unless you like globs of banded color. 

If you downloaded the older appx 50k archive of Rend24, the one with
no interface, throw that away and go get the appx 100k archive
called rend104f.lzh which I put up on hubcap.clemson.edu a couple
days ago. 

If you're feeding Rend24 a .jpeg image that doesn't properly
conform to the JPEG/JFIF standard then that's another probblem
entirely and I can't help ya with that. Where are your JPEG images
coming from? Rend24 V1.04f seems quite happy with the ones I feed
it... some I've downloaded, some I've made myself.

Harv
From: diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Animatrix
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 05:39:24 PDT
Organization: Micro-Medic BBS - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

Anyone have experience with the 3D modeler Animatrix? I've seen the ads,b 
but no reviews. I'd like a program which helps me biuld Imagine objects.

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From: kkrebs@amilink.UUCP (Ken Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re:   ADPro vs. ImageMaster: Which is better for DTP?
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:05:46 PST
Organization: Sacramento Amiga Computer Club - Sacramento, CA

In article <65348@cup.portal.com> blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams) writes:
> Alan D. Ray,
> 
> As of Tuesday, we'll be shipping 9.17; upgrade fees from *any* version
> of Imagemaster are $20 per event, or, you can subscribe to a 12-month
> service where we send you (at least) one a month, for $100.00
> 
> 9.17 is quite the critter. :^)
> 
> Ben


Hey Ben, what happened to the Black Belt BBS?  It just rings and rings.
The number I am dialing is: 1-406-367-2227

Did you change numbers...?

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From: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:33:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Press Release/Babylon 5 Info/MorphPlus
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics

In comp.sys.amiga.graphics, pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz) writes:

>                   ***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****
 
> ASDG  SETS  SHIP  DATE  FOR  STATE-OF-THE-ART  AMIGA(R) VISUAL EFFECTS
> PACKAGE.  WINDOWS(R) VERSION ANNOUNCED.
 
> ASDG   has   set  an  October  1st  ship  date  for  MorphPlus(tm),  a
> state-of-the-art  visual  effects  package  for  the  Commodore Amiga.
> MorphPlus, already in use in Hollywood for such features as Babylon 5,
> provides  cinematic  quality  full  motion  morphing  and other visual
> effects.  ASDG also announced a forthcoming Microsoft Windows version,
> called CineMorph(tm).
 
 Saw this at WOC. All I can say is !!! FANTASTIC !!!
 
 
  
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From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Toaster and DCTV (was Re: DCTV flickers !!!!
Keywords: DCTV
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:19:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics

jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes:

>Just to add another data point :-) I use a PAL DCTV on a 2000 with a
>GVP 33MHz Combo accelerator and microway flicker fixer, and it works fine.
>No toaster though.. will NewTek _ever_ get around to a PAL version :-( :-(

Nope!  Hell, they won't even make a 3000 Toaster, much less a 4000
toaster.  I hear that they are considering selling Lightwave separately,
again.  You never know what the NewTekians will or won't do next.  It
kind of depends on who gets hit where with the dart guns.   I think the
game scene is the major decision making activity at NewTek.  I applaude
the creative atomosphere that Tim has created at NewTek, but I have to
wonder if regular play periods at work will be the ulimate answer to
rekindling American productivity as Tim seems to think.

BTW what do you Amigans think of the anims shown at WOC last week done
by NUtopia?  The short Toaster anim aired at the NewTek demo at 5:30 and
by popular demand 7:30 at the Hilton.  It was an animated chrome toaster
that morphed just about every way you can.  Very cool!  The one by Todd
Rungren's production company called "Theology" was one of the wildest
morph orgys in captivity.  The message was from the other side of the
strange zone.  I guess those rock musicians are still over doing the
drug scene :)  They're very creative, but they tend to create major
league weirdness.  I guess I'm just not with the New Age
hypno-consciousness-everything-is-one-universal-glob scene.  No doubt,
I'll be one of those poor slobs who will be slated for elimination in
the New World Order. 

On a more serious note, Lightwave 3.0 is got some serious new medicine! 
The lens flair was most cool!  That Allen, how does he do it?  It must
be pretty awesome to make some major bucks for living you're fantasy!  I
wonder how much the upgrade will cost this time!
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From: Kermit@cup.portal.com (Kermit Royce Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,sci.image.processing
Subject: GVP's CineMorph Debuts at WOC
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21:11:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

                CINEMORPH DEBUTS AT PASEDENA WOC
 
   KING OF PRUSSIA, PA - September, 1992.  In a surprise move, GVP has 
released a previously unannounced morphing package.  Called CineMorph, 
this impressive software system brings the features of a high-end 
commercial morphing system to the Amiga, giving any user the ability to 
warp single images, morph between two or more images, and even create 
sequences of full motion morphs.
 
   CineMorph features include exceptionally fast rendering that can be 
fully automated to save you time.  You can preview results within 
CineMorph or render directly to Amiga formats, HAM-E, DCTV and 
24-bit IFF with controls provided directly in CineMorph.  The system 
also supports full 24-bit output for professional needs on framebuffers 
such as the IV24.
 
   Using the industry standard dual window interface, CineMorph takes 
this one step further by making these windows fully intuition based to 
allow images to be shown and morphed in their correct aspect ratio.  
These same windows can also be enlarged for precise editing.  CineMorph 
follows Amiga style conventions in all areas and uses logical and easy 
to understand controls for it's entire operation.
 
   Computer and video artists will appreciate the many professional 
capabilities of CineMorph.  Some of these features include the ability 
to warp images for comic effect, merge similar scenes for film or video 
to eliminate bad edits, and create full motion morph sequences for 
cinematic or video effects using CineMorph's unmatched controls for 
automating the creation of full motion sequences.  Abilities not found 
in any other Amiga-based morphing software!
 
   "CineMorph is boon to anyone who uses the Amiga for video 
applications," says Lawrence Ough, Product Manager for the new product. 
"And it's suggested retail price of $149.00 will put sophisticated 
morphing capabilities within everyone's reach."
 
   CineMorph represents the state of the art in morphing software on the 
Amiga.  It's currently being used by high profile companies in several 
productions in Hollywood, New York and Florida, as well as many other 
companies for their advertising, multimedia, and commercial works.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: yoav@athena.mit.edu (Yoav O Yerushalmi)
Subject: Rembrandt / Resolver / Vivid
Keywords: 24 bits, SAGE, Processors
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:33:07 GMT


  Has anyone heard the latest about any of the above boards (especially the release
date of Vivid) ?
  What software is to be included / is included with Rembrandt or Vivid
  Are they compatible with the A4000?
	anything else that can be said about them???
                Thanks
 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: rend24.... jpeg???
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:51:00 GMT
Keywords: rend24 jpeg


OK, I downloaded Rend24 to try and view some jpegs, but when passing
a .jpg file to it, it just tells me it isn't an IFF file...  I don't
see any mention of jpeg in the docs.  So how do you view jpegs with this
thing????

Thanks!

Rich...
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga+Toaster used to create "Babylon 5" TV show
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 92 07:44:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

And speakin' of Babylon5, NewTek sent me a nice little 10 min. promo
tape recently, at the head of which is a one-min. ad for the show.. at least
it looks like it could be used for a tv ad.. swooping spaceships and
such, all Lightwave-made and very impressive (they used some of the main
title music of "Total Recall" behind the animation). I showed the tape
to my user group last week and they made me replay it four times :)

Also on the tape is Rundgren's amazing new video "Theology" along
with a feature about NewTek which was shown on the NBC Nightly News with
Tom Brokaw on 20 June 92. I dunno if/when/how NewTek plans to make this
tape publically available, or even if they will. But I'll have it with
me at the WOC/Pasadena show later this week and will attempt to show
it whenever I'm near a VCR that isn't already doing something else. 

Harv
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