HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Kermit@cup.portal.com (Kermit Royce Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Free Upgrade for Registered ImageFX Owners
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:41:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

           GVP ANNOUNCES FREE UPGRADE FOR IMAGEFX/CINEMORPH
   King of Prussia, PA., January, 1993.  GVP announced that it has released 
upgrades for its popular software packages, ImageFX and CineMorph.
 
   CineMorph has met with phenomenal success since its release in September, 
1992.  This easy-to-use morphing package was immediately acclaimed for its 
powerful features, which give the user the ability to warp single images, 
morph sequences of multiple images and even full motion video with the 
fastest possible speeds available in any morphing package.  New features
of the upgrade include infinite zoom, regional dissolve, point naming and 
point locking.  New gadgets have been added to the curve editor window which 
allow for greater flexibility.  In addition, AGA support has been added to 
the Render Menu.
 
   ImageFX, which combines the traditional elements of images processing and 
editing with high-end special effects, was released in November, 1992 and 
already promises to set a new standard in visual effects software packages fo
the Amiga.  This powerful software contains all the features of CineMorph 
plus a host of other image processing features.  This new version of ImageFX 
also adds AGA modes to the Amiga preview, and render modes and puts all Amiga
resolutions, including AGA, in the Foreign render module as well.  OpalVision
rendering, more keyboard shortcuts and an improved file requester have also 
been added to an impressive list of features.
 
   These upgrades, coming so soon after the release of ImageFX and CineMorph,
reflect GVP's ongoing commitment to providing professional quality video 
processing and editing software at an affordable price.
 
   Gary Gehman, president of Magic Bullet Communications, has this 
observation about ImageFX, "I believe that it is the single most important 
graphics program for the Amiga in five years" he says.  "This is of 
considerable interest to the average Amiga hobbyist, but it is a revolutionar
and highly profitable windfall to the people who actually use their Amigas to
make a living."
 
   Registered owners of ImageFX are recieving their free upgrades already.
 
   GVP is a privately held company that was founded in 1988.  Today it is the
world's largest third party supplier of peripherals for the Commodore Amiga. 
For more information contact Sheila Kirby at (215) 337-8770 extension 244.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: john@heights.demon.co.uk (John Shiali)
Subject: Re: Imagine 3.0 WHO CARES!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Organization: Private Node
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:48:59 +0000

In article <C17KyE.59G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:

> Damn right Imagine 3.0 is going to have some competition.  Real3D 2.0 is
> going to be THE 3D modeller.  It is absolutely great.  Caligari-24 will
> probably fall in 2nd place.

Real will do... err... *real* raytracing rather than modelling, and so
will give better results for that alone (as well as being *fast*)....


-- 

  John ..   InterNet  - john@heights.demon.co.uk
            FidoNet   - 2:253/500.9

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: Alf_Cook@mindlink.bc.ca (Alf Cook)
Subject: LIGHTWAVE & MULTITASKING
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:49:44 GMT


Thanks for the info but I did know about the cnt. cnt. alt. alt. key
sequence to get from the switcher to the workbench since before owning
my own Toaster and reading the manual. I was trying to find a way to exit
LW while rendering an animation.  As far as I can determine, you have to
quit rendering by using the Esc key just to get back to the switcher.  I
have since learned by another message that if you have another program
window open on the WB you can use the Amiga m key to get from the rendering
screen in LW back to the WB.  This explains why Rend 24 works since it has
its window on the WB window.  Same applies to opening a CLI window. Just
having another program running with its own window allows you to get there
from LW but not to the WB. You have to have a task running on the WB.
Disk windows or HD partition windows don't do the trick either. I hope
this does more to clarify what I was attempting to convey.
From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: X-Windows and A4000 questions
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:48:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>Just out of curiousity, how would this work with an Amiga A2024 monitor?
>(1008x800 resolution, 4 colors. 1024x1024 in PAL mode if I remember right.)
>
>Would the X server use the A2024 screenmode?
>
Yes, the GfxBase X server works with the A2024 screenmode.  I saw it
many years ago when the A2024 first came out.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (RatDaddy)
Subject: VistaPro3.0
Keywords: VistaPro 3.0 Virtual Reality Upgrade
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:16:23 GMT
Summary: Ist VP 3.0 already out?

Does anybody know, if VistaPro 3.0 is already out? I didn't get any Newsletter
by VRLI for a long time. (I am a (happy:) VP2.0 owner)

Sammy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
Subject: Re: DCTV questions +
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:05:26 GMT

lgibb@burner.com (Lance Gibb) writes:
>On Thu 21-Jan-1993  7:53a, Arthur Entlich wrote:

>I can't answer your 2002 question, but DCTV will let you pass through your
>video to be used on the 1960.

Really?  I have DCTV and a 1960 and was surprised to see that the 1960
doesn't have a composite input.  Can you run both the 15kHz and 30kHz signals
from an A3000 to the same 1960?  I'm using the old monitor from my A1000 
for the DCTV and would appreciate any advice about a way that I could 
recover a little desk space!

>AE> Has anyone heard if Digital Creations is going to be providing
>AE> a card version of DCTV that would slip into my Amiga 2000?

The DCTV unit does not go inside the computer.  No need to open the 
box at all.  It is a small unit the size of an external modem that fits
between your video output and monitor.  This same unit has an RCA jack 
for hooking in a video camera or VCR.

-- 

	Mike Bandy
	bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
	Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
From: slei@cis.ohio-state.edu (shih liang lei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: What is broadcast quality?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:33:23 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: toucan.cis.ohio-state.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: What is broadcast quality?
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Keywords: 
As a newcomer to the world of video, I'd like to know what the term "broadcast
quality" means.  Is it a qualifying description of the graphics quality, or
does it describe the video format used?  For example, is broadcast-quality
animations possible only when produced by Video Toasters and above boards,
or can a DCTV animation recorded to Betacam or D2 video formats be regarded
as broadcast-quality?
If I'm way off, let me know (but gently, please :)

Thanks,
Tim


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: john@heights.demon.co.uk (John Shiali)
Subject: Re: hubcap ftp gone??
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Organization: Private Node
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:26:16 +0000

> I read an article sent to the imagine mail list that indicated that the site
> was closed because some software pirates were using the site to exchange
> software.

And that's a good reason to close a site down? They *could* have just
sorted out their security (which would have stopped the problem in the
first place), and have been thankful that the loophole had been found.

They're simply punishing users rather then getting their directory
permissions fixed.


-- 

  John ..   InterNet  - john@heights.demon.co.uk
            FidoNet   - 2:253/500.9

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: Ross.Knepper@launchpad.unc.edu (Ross Knepper)
Subject: Re: 16 Color Icons - Wb3.0
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:09:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.183350.18320@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Are there any nice 16 color PD icons out there.  The 4 color ones
>from C= are just not "neat enough " for those new AGA chips.
>

You mean you can get a 16 color Workbech with Wb3.0!? HOW??

>-- 
>________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura				University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
>  "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
>	inevitable.."  -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"

- Ross Knepper
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian)
Subject: Re: Imagine 3.0 WHO CARES!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:54:07 GMT

mikel@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Michael Linton) writes:
:  
: Oh, sorry... I guess I should've explained, that Essence ISN'T a 
: collection of 24bit brush maps, they are "Algorithmic Textures", like the 
: 12 or so that come with Imagine.  They are very powerful, and the really 
: nice thing about them, is they require little ram to render.  They are, 
: however, a little on the slow side, but with enough tweeking, you can 
: speed them up a bit (lets face it, Imagine isn't exactly the fastest 
: renderer around anyway :).  I've got a post here from the Imagine Mailing 
: list about them, if you're intersted, I could post it here for everyone 
: to read.  TTYRS
:

  Yes please post this.  I would be very interested in looking into any
information on it.  I was not aware that any package of procedureal
textures exhisted for Imagine.  I was under the impression that Impulse
hadn't released info on the file format for their textures.  Have they
released this info to the public domain also?  If so, why aren't there
any public domain procedural textures around?
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Tv_Stations_Using_Amiga_Network
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:48:12 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1993Jan20.093732.13664@aristo.tau.ac.il> koby01@ccsg.tau.ac.il (gabai jacob) writes:
>
>i am looking for networks using amiga for getting information
>the Israel educational Television is looking for
>Amiga based net for editing room's (graphics & sound

In Germany:
ZDF, Mainz
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Muenchen
RTL, Koeln

(plus some more I don't know of, I guess :-)

-- 
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Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Imagine 3.0 WHO CARES!
Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:41:45 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

In article <1993Jan25.185201.12094@netcom.com> mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian) writes:
>
>  I have pro-textures and am pretty happy with it.  How do you think it
>compares with it?

	Pro-textures is a set of images for brush wrapping, isn't it?
Essence is a set of procedural textures which have been designed to give
the user an amazing amount of control over an objects appearance.  As an
example, the bump texture can be made to simulate drifting snow or sand,
pock marks on a rusty surface, or the "fluffiness" of clouds.  Essence
is essential (;-) if you do anything with Imagine.
-- 
-John

John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Re: 16 Color Icons - Wb3.0
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:29:41 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan26.140949.727@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ross.Knepper@launchpad.unc.edu (Ross Knepper) writes:
>You mean you can get a 16 color Workbech with Wb3.0!? HOW??

Is this a joke? You've been able to set the number of colors on the
Workbench since version 2.0. With 3.0 on aga machines you
can have up to 256 colors, if you want.

Fire up screen preferences, you'll find a slider to set the number
of colors.
-- 
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MAIL : IANK@MICROSOFT.COM
A1200/85MBHD OS3.0 Yeah!
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From: Kermit@cup.portal.com (Kermit Royce Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: A SCANNER, PLEASE?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 09:12:38 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <C16rKB.Dot@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

>This is once chance I have to blow some cash. :)  No one's reall
>responded about the scanner.  24-bit color, full page, around 20
>so, under $500.  flatbed preferred.  

Sam, you've basically got two choices, or one choice and a chance basically.
The Sharp JX100 is 18bit color and limited to 6x4 inch scanning, but does a
very nice job.  I've seen it sell for less than $300 here and there.  The
next choice/chance is the Epson es300c from someplace selling them cheap. I
haven't seen them under $500, but darned close in Computer Shopper and other
mail order oriented PC magazines.

Once you have the scanner, allow me to suggest ImageFX as your scanner
control program of choice.  It comes with modules to control BOTH of these
scanners, as well as 24bit painting, image processing and many other features
all included for one low price.  About $250 mail order I believe.

Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinski)
Subject: Re: Rend24 version 1.05 -- has *anyone* gotten this thing to
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:58:33 GMT


Here's a complete list of what to do to convert an image:

1.  Run Rend 24
2.  Set cycle gadgets: Device:Amiga   Format:HAM  Monitor:NTSC  Color:Max
                       Hor:LoRes  Ver:No Lace
3.  Set options. NOTHING should be checked.
4.  Set the output image size.  X:320  Y:200
5.  "Choose" a source image pattern.
6.   Press "Begin Conversion"

This should convert 1 image and display it on the screen in HAM. It will not
write the converted image to disk. To write the converted image to disk,
"Choose" a Destination image pattern.
To convert a series of images to an anim you "Choose" a destination anim and
set up your source frame count.

If this doesn't work I'd be real interested in knowing since you're the first
person I've heard of having trouble with Rend 24.
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr. Peter Kittel, Commodore Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: What is GIF?!!??
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:27:03 GMT
Organization: Commodore Germany

Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmger!peterk@cbmvax.commodore.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Distribution: 
Organization: Commodore Germany
Keywords: 

In article <bburdeau.05bl@redorc.chi.il.us> bburdeau@redorc.chi.il.us (Bob Burdeau) writes:
>PMBC???  Lossless image compression?  I like the sound of that.  

Me too. Recently I saw a show on TV and they had a HD floppy for PC
(no floptical, real standard) and this disk carried a *huge* number of
full-size pictures, perhaps it was 200. They said there was a special
compression procedure used that reduced the images to fractal formulas
and only these formulas were stored. I'm doing hard to believe that,
as the pictures were standard images of houses, people, landscapes, etc.
But it obviously lead to phantastic compression rates (sure with losses).

Does anybody know more about this? At least the name of the algorithm?

-- 
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Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
From: E.E.Guy@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ab20 ftp
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:53:38
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rave.larc.nasa.gov
In-reply-to: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de's message of Sun, 17 Jan 1993 14:46:33 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: d718eaa710b8c19e49df219218da77b3

markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes:
> In article <199316.4255.11255@dosgate>, "david wyand" writes:
> > I have been trying to FTP at ab20.larc.nasa.gov (128.155.23.64) with no
> > success.
> 
> The ab20 admin, Tad Guy, left his work at NASA Labs for more than a year now.

That's NASA Langley Research Center.  

I only got out of the Amiga archive "business"; I still work here.

And occasionally I even read some of the comp.sys.amiga newsgroups... :-)

	...tad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: d92thoan@odalix.ida.liu.se (Thorbjorn Andersson)
Subject: A3/4000UX
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:53:38 GMT

Hi!

I know that there's a A3000UX, but I've also heard
that you must have a certain chip in your machine in
order to run UNIX. Is that correct, and if so,
what kind of chip is that? Could it be a MMU-chip
since UNIX uses 'paged memory'? But there's always
a MMU in a MC68030? (Except for MC68EC030, but 
those aren't in the A3000?)

Another rumour says that there's no such thing as A4000UX?
Is it anyway possible to install UNIX on a A4000? 

Regards,

Thorbjorn Andersson, Linkoping, Sweden.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE (Lost-in-BitBucket(tm))
Subject: Re: hardware hack
Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:20:59 GMT

In article <727915799.AA04074@csource.oz.au> Jonathan.Benson@f106.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Jonathan Benson) writes:

>   Hi

>   I> My friend and I installed a switch on my 500 to let me switch between
>   I> half a meg and a full meg chip ram.  In full meg mode it has problems.

>   Did you make sure to keep those wires SHORT, as if they're too long, I
>   believe this may cause problems.  Hope this helps.

One other thing, in order for the amiga to use the extra half meg of
chipmem, you have to switch the x-mem off (!), because otherwise
AmyDOS will believe that there is BOTH 1M chipmem and 1/2M slowmem at
the same time, and the power led will flash all the time...
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From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitors
Keywords: ibm compatible, multi-sync, VGA, 15Khz etc
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:21:28 GMT
Organization: IDK/Frontec - System Design Group

sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun) writes:
> I am posting to this newsgroup to see if somebody could give me a summary on
> the various types of monitors that I can use with my A1200. So far, I 
> understand that a low-end monitor such as the 1084 will do for general use,
> whereas a high-end multi-sync job such as the 1960 is a truly versatile
> beast, capable of displaying all/most (?) of the AGA modes, and is needed for
> serious graphics work. However, the latter also comes with a hefty price tag.

I'd say there are four kinds of monitors usable for the A1200:

  A) TV sets and video monitors (15 kHz)
  B) VGA only monitors (31 kHz)
  C) SuperVGA monitors (30-40 kHz)
  D) The Really Flexible Ones (15-40 kHz)

Prices typically range top-down with type A) being the cheapest and type D)
the most expensive.

Clearly, type D) is the best since it can display every display mode your
Amiga can produce. If you can't, however, afford a type D) monitor, you must
consider what kind of work you do mostly and what kind of software you are
willing to 'sacrifice'.

Many games and other entertainment packages boot up in 15kHz PAL or NTSC
mode and can't be promoted to use 31kHz or higher frequencies. Therefore, you
won't be able to display such software on type B) and C) monitors.
On the other hand, type A) devices typically can't handle high resolutions
very well, and are thus less suited for productivity software such as word
processing and desktop publishing.

> Basically, I'm on the look out for a monitor and any info. gleaned here would
> be more helpful than that presented in the A1200 User Guide and Workkbench 3
> manuals.

I have posted a list of 60 different type D) monitors here in c.s.a.hardware.
I'll repost it within a few days.

Hope this helps!

		-- Bjorn

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From: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Productivity scan rates and the 1084.
Date: 26 Jan 1993 05:38:15 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tornado.berkeley.edu

I will be buying an A1200 next week, but plan to hook it up to
my old 1084 monitor.  I know that the 1084 will not be able to
display the doublescanned or productivity modes.
 
 Here's my question:  Does sending higher scan rates to the 1084
 than it can handle result in a garbled display, or is there a
 possibility of doing harm to the monitor?
  
  I had no plans to try it, I just want to make sure to be extra
  careful if there is a chance to destroy my monitor.
   
   Thanks.

-- 
                              _
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