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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Imagemaster and Abekas?
Keywords: imagemaster, abekas, adpro
Date: 25 Dec 92 05:57:34 GMT
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Distribution: world
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

Ben Williams-

Art Department supports Abekas format frames onto exabyte. I am planning on
buying either your Imagemaster or ADSG Art Department Pro. This issue will
be the deciding factor. Are you planning to support abekas format frames onto
exabyte also? Thanks.
neil

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Postscript printing
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:53:52 GMT
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I grabbed the file from alt.sources which, when you put an address in it,
it will calculate and print postal barcodes.  How can I get this thing to work
automatically?  I could write a program to chaneg the address in the ps file
myself, thats no problem, but how can I write an AREXX script to get propage or 
post or artexpression to load and print it automatically?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: AGA info
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:30:32 GMT

lgibb@burner.com (Lance Gibb) writes:

>640x480 mode in 256 colors using DBLNTSC is CONSIDERABLY slower than a MacII series computer running a similar display and even a clone running a 256color VGA screen.  Applications in 256 colors are painfully slow (most notibly workbench).  I have tried Final Copy II in 256 colors and it is not bad, but does slow down considerably.  (If you want specs, I can't give them to you, but as a user of all 3 platforms I can only make observations)
> 
>You CANNOT expand past 2 megs of chip ram.  There is a jumper on the motherboard that says 2 meg chip/4 meg chip/etc..  But it is NON functional, and my dealer tells me it was at one time under consideration, but that the final production models were shipped with a 2 meg maximum capacity.

>As far as exact figures on drawing speed etc... I don't have them, but I can tell you that the 4000 updates the display MUCH quicker than a 3000.  Ie.  A picture that took 14 seconds to fully render under ADPro on a 3000, took less than 3 seconds on my 4000 (I know the 040 is to be given credit for part of the speed up, but the screen refresh rate is NOTICABLY faster)
> 

First off ever hear of a return key?  Second, lets not forget that the graphics
on this is blitter graphics.  As all they have owned an a500 and had good games
that use the blitter well, know that it is very powerful, and a saturated
aga at 640x480x256 is much faster, than a saturated a500 640x200x16.  So quit
your bleaming whining.  These graphics will do for most of us for now.  I
know I love it, got tired of out typing on my word processing on my a500.
And I don't on my a1200.  And I haven't even gotten any fast ram yet.
Which should speed things up considerably.
Wait until the really advanced chip sets come out, the specs will be great.
Heck you could blit your apps on those projected speeds and things will be
great.

Martin

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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: I found "Amiga" Mentioned on a Kodak Survey!
Date: 27 Dec 1992 23:47:57 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <BzwpDA.3s2@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>   The pressure should not be placed on Kodak, the pressure should be placed
>on Commodore.  Kodak cannot write the AmigaOS modifications and additions
>necessary to fully support Photo CD on the Amiga.  And Kodak cannot bring out
>multisession Amiga CD-ROM drives to allow Amiga owners to view Photo CD discs
>in conjunction with the OS additions to support it.

Umm, AmigaOS modifications and additions?

What planet is this coming from?

1) If my understanding of Kodak's wish to keep their format
proprietary and quiet is correct, then Kokak wishes to be the only
people who write drivers.

2) No modifications or additions would be necessary under 3.0.  At
most, perhaps, would be a datatype so that MultiView could support it
transparently.

3) Having multisession CD-ROM hardware is not a reason.  Period.  It
may influence CDTV's posession of it, but multisession discs are
available for the Amiga now, in the form of a SCSI-device.  This
invalidates the "multisession" argument.  Very few people assume that
a solution must come from C= for everything, and Kodak would see this
as merely "a facet" of that.

Greg


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From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ASDG - Never Again
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:01:01 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Dale,

I'm sorry you feel the way you do. 

I'm also sorry you did not register your ADPro with us (which 
apparently  you haven't). I  would have thought that a person 
who felt strongly  enough  about  getting  satisfaction  from
their investment (to send  a  disparaging  note to  a  public 
forum) would certainly have taken the time to register for the 
free upgrades and maintenance releases we send regularly. 

As for the information you received from our technical support
staff, are you  sure you  spoke  to  *our*  technical  support 
department. The reason I ask, is that you can't get through to
them  unless  you're  registered (the  receptionist will  even
register you on the phone), and as I  said before, you are not
to be found in our records.

Anyway, do  contact us  again after  the  holidays, and after
your registration can be found or authenticated I'm sure your
040 problems will be solved.

Happy Holidays
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: VistaPro & clones
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:51:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1993Jan3.165122.2947
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> Nevermind the fact that the Amiga version of Vista Pro has more features
> in it than the MS DOS version has. And it renders much faster. I've
> had them running side by side, with the same .scape file loaded, and
> as close-to-same features set up in the control panels, one on a
> 386SX machine, one on a 2500/30, and it was no contest, speed wise.

Should a weenie CPU like a 386SX be a match for a 25 MHz 030 (probably with
68881 fpu)?  Seems a pretty unfair comparison... about like comparing an
A2500-020 to a A3000.  Not defending the clones by any means but fair is
fair.  ;-)


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From: spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ANIM Splitter?
Date: 1 Jan 93 15:54:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: drycas.1993Jan1.205401.2828
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <jwalkup.31ny@terapin.com>, jwalkup@terapin.com (Jeff Walkup) writes:
> Alright all you Animheads:
> 
> Is there a program that will take an ANIM (Op5) file and break it up 
> into seperate IFF frames?  (I know there must be... but where/what?)

There is a PD program called Buster that will do what you want. I dont
know if its available on any FTP site. It also requires the freely 
redistributable Proj2 program from the commercial program Director.

                              Scott Corley

spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:29:03 GMT

In article <Bzr29w.8Kt@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
writes:

>   This kind of lack of vision by Amiga users is why I say that the Amiga is
>no longer "the computer for the creative mind."  I can think of a lot of
>applications that could be ported to the Amiga or made uniquely on the Amiga
>if the Amiga has a large base of users with AGA Amigas and CD-ROM drives.

And in your infinite wisdom, you'd also be the first to belittle the release
of what is now considered outdated technology. If CBM is to market a CD-ROM
drive, they would be much better off selling units based on Sony's new
mechs. 300 and 600 ms access is agonizingly slow. 

Given the choice, I would opt for RTG and system development. All the creative
vision in the world will get you nowhere without adequate development tools.
CD-ROM device drivers definitely have to be integrated into the system in the
short run. More people would certainly be able to make immediate use of
CDs as opposed to network capabilities...

Something tells me the fabled CDTV II will be a harbinger of things to come.
A cost and form-factor reduced AGA version of CDTV with a SCSI pass-through
could conceivably kill two birds with one stone -- provided that you have
SCSI.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: dburnett@emunix.emich.edu (Don Burnett)
Subject: Re: more on AGA anim utilities
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:37:26 GMT

 The AnimLab program for Scala MM200 should fill the bill. It will
 let you create ANIM5's which support AGA and can playback with 
 multiple palettes. Also, it contains virtual anim playing from the 
 hard drive (ANIM16, ANIM32) which I think should become a standard.
 Also, if you buy Morph Plus, It has an ANIM saver which works 
 nicely with AGA.. 


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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: 30 fps:  Yeay or nay? 
Summary: Maybe 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:07:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.023929.6787@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> nwickham@nyx.UUCP (Neal Wickham) writes:
>Someone at my local Commodore store is insisting that software will be 
>developed that will allow 30 fps in 640 X 400 HAM8 mode.  Who is right? 

It all depends on the between-frame deltas, as always.

(about the only thing immune from this consideration is Editmaster...)

You could do it now with a small delta per frame.  With software that takes
into account the new 3.0 features, as well as quadword alignment of the
data, you can do it with larger deltas.  And furthermore, if you're careful
with your animation design, you can get a lot of the screen moving around
for a relatively small delta.  

Just like with older Amigas, you can get 30 FPS in high res if you're
careful, and you can't if you ignore delta considerations.  It's the same
with AGA.  Make sure, when you're running your animation tests, you're not
actually running DblNTSC (deinterlaced highres), as that'll slow things down
a lot and not add anything for video purposes.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: Kermit@cup.portal.com (Kermit Royce Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ASDG - Never Again
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:01:14 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <lee.725063515@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu>

ImageFX, a software package my company wrote for GVP, fully supports Epson
ES300c and Sharp JX100 scanners.  Both scanners are properly supported with
options on the JX100 interface to use ANY serial cards you like, and little
extras like a color preview for the Epson scanner.

Look for ImageFX at your local dealers for a demonstration.

Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: colins@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Colin Stuckless)
Subject: Re: Is there a IFF/GIF/JPEG to DynaHIRES converter?
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:29:12 GMT

In article <Dk9PwB1w165w@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca> mikel@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Michael Linton) writes:
>miller@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey M. Miller) writes:
>
>> I've seen quite a few Dynamic HAM (dynaHIRES?) mode pictures and was
>> wondering how they were created... is there some sort of conversion
>> program for these files?  I would really like to find a GIF->DYNARES
>> converter to display hires interlaced HAM mode pictures...
>
>Hi there.  DigiView 4.0 is what created those Dynamich Hires pics.  You 
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Not necessarily. Some of the best pics I've ever seen on a standard
chipset Amiga have come from converting 24-bit IFFs or Jpegs to
PCHG format with the shareware program HamLabPlus. And it only costs
$25 if you want to register it. You can also convert to the 'dynamic'
or 'sham' modes, but PCHG is superior to either. And I generally find
that using hi-res interlaced 'sliced 7' mode to give the best results on
resolutions of 640x480 or above. 

>can take a 24bit picture, load it into DigiView, and then convert it to 
>Dynamic Hires.  The only problem is, 1 in about every 20 pictures 
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  My experience with HamLabPlus has been that only about 1 in 20 *doesn't*
convert well. Anyone on a budget should really check out this program.

>actually converts well.  If there are too many different colours in the 
[stuff deleted]


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From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Re:Screen capture utility needed
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:20:08 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

The screen loader included with ADPro will also grab screens including
any currently visible menus.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: I found "Amiga" Mentioned on a Kodak Survey!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:12:45 GMT

In article <Paula_Lieberman.07pi@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
>I got a mailing from Kodak on its writable CD-ROM hardware today,and
>enclosed was a send-back-to-Kodak survey form that included "Amiga" among
>the operatins systems and machine listed as possible responses for "what
>operating systems/computer do you use-" !!! 
[stuff deleted]
> The more
>people who fill it out and mark "Amiga" the more pressure on Kodak.....

   The pressure should not be placed on Kodak, the pressure should be placed
on Commodore.  Kodak cannot write the AmigaOS modifications and additions
necessary to fully support Photo CD on the Amiga.  And Kodak cannot bring out
multisession Amiga CD-ROM drives to allow Amiga owners to view Photo CD discs
in conjunction with the OS additions to support it.

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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ANIM "TIME" chuck (suggestion)
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:23:02 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <1992Dec28.224231.8344@fcom.cc.utah.edu> by val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner):

>      I have a future need for a way to specify frame-rates and delays during
> an ANIM.  It could be implemented with a "TIME" chunk as follows (Please

    ...

>      If there is such a capability in current ANIM formats, then I haven't
> found an ANIM builder that does it yet.

    There is a reltime field in each from of an ANIM that is supposed
    to be the number of "jiffies" that should pass after the previous
    frame before this frame is displayed.

    I don't know if there are any ANIM builders that support it - I've
    never come across a really solid ANIM builder.

>      This brings up another point: Would it be feasible to add capabilities
> for sound synchronization in the ANIM format?

    Like a little command language, sufficient to send ARexx commands
    out to other hosts (which could be a MOD player)? Don't see why
    not. Another nice thing would be the ability to do loops within an
    animation, and adding screen wipes and so on to it. GRASP files
    are kind of like this - on the PC it's possible to combine clips
    and delta animations, all controlled by a little script file that
    could easily be extended to let you call ARexx hosts to sync. with
    other programs.

    This is something I want to do with my GL program, when I can get
    an AGA machine, or even better one of those future Amigas with
    chunky pixels.

> |== "I think, therefore I AMiga" -- val@csulx.weber.edu ==\///= Ogden UT USA =|
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From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 93 18:17:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Widespread CD-ROM availability for the Amiga would be a great boon.  The
Amiga is a perfect system for a lot of vertical market applications.  The
Amiga is extremely well-suited to word/image library cataloging systems
requiring lots of data--and CD-ROM.  Have you seen the way a lot of
government registration info is distributed?  On Microfiche.  Don't you
HATE trying to read microfiches, and finding the item you need and
squinting your eyes to read those awful screens?  CD-ROM would be a much
better medium, and an AGA, CD-ROM turnkey Amiga 1200 would be inexpensive
and sensational for this application.

Design and graphics are undergoing a computer/economic/method revolution.
Two years ago, computer generated covers on journals were rare.  Today
they're commonplace.  Tomorrow they will be almost the only competitive
solution.  Taking an image and manipulating it with ADPro, ImageMaster or
Photoshop is 100s of times more cost effective and flexible than creating
graphics from 'scratch' and will consequently become the norm in a very
short time.  Artists will need huge libraries of 'raw' images to draw
from.  CD-ROM is a natural lmedium for storing and saving these images.

The Amiga doesn't need CD-ROM?  You're wrong.  The Amiga, with its
strength in graphics, and with 24-bit image files being space hogs, needs
CD-ROM badly.  And soon.  The Mac IIvx comes with a built in CD-ROM.
They're selling scads of them.  I can think of HUNDREDS of apps that
would improve if they incorporated CD-ROM technology.  The future is
megastorage.  Increased storage provides a qualitative, as well as a
quantitative change in the way we use computers.  I don't want to see
the Amiga lagging behind in this technology.

                                            Julie Petersen
                                            LadyHawke@cup.portal.com
From: Mark.Stuart@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OpalVision questions
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:08:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.005749.10685@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
>      I'm going to be getting a 24-bit display device soon.  I have a few
> questions about the OpalVision main board:
> 	1) Is it truely 24-bit or does it have color registers?
> 	2) Does it come with all of the memory to do 24-bit double-buffering?
> 	3) Will it require a VGA monitor, or does it output in NTSC?
1. It is definitely 24 bit, all the way
2. It has 1.5Mb of VRAM (I think)
3. It requires a 15Khz Monitor, NTSC, or PAL... however a scan rate
converter will be available soon to allow it to be connected to VGA's and
multisyncs.
4. I've done about 25fps on a 3000, never tried a 4000 yet. These were some
Imagine and MorphPlus Animations and looked quite stunning.

5. I'd recommend it highly, its one of the few products I've come across
with a truely polished finish. It is packed with features, the paint
package is a cross between the best features of Dpaint and Adpro. If the
add on boards live it to the standard of the initial board I've say it'll
wipe the toaster off the market (esp as its PAL).
 
I do sell the boards, but as I'm in a shop in NZ I doubt you'd buy one from
me ;-)

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From: jhoesing@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Hoesing)
Subject: Vivid 24, Visiona, etc...
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 06:02:08 GMT

 I am going to be buying a graphics card soon, and would like to hear any
comments people have on the various cards that are out or soon to be
released.
What looks the most promising is the new Vivid 24 from Digital Micronics.
The Visiona also looks interesting.  I don't need a framebuffer, I need
a fully programmable graphics card.  I will be writing my own programs,
but it would be nice to be able to use it with other programs, whether
they take advantage of its features or not.
 
 If anyone already has, or knows anything about Vivid24 or Visiona,
please write!
 
 Thanks,
  J.J. Hoesing
From: lee@rose.brandeis.edu (charles lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ASDG - Never Again
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:31:55 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University

dschlott@linx.UUCP (Dale Schlott) writes:

>Looks nice, but does it work? Well, as long as you don't mind disabling
>interrupts during each scan and your computer doesn't sport a 040
>processor, you may find it acceptable. However I'm running on a network
>which can't afford disabled interrupts, and their software doesn't like
>my 040 machine.

Dude, try the 2.1 setpatch... It fixes troubles with 040 processors
on the A3000, and maybe A2000...

Yeah... ASDG didn't have support for the JX-100 on THEIR own Dual-Serial
Board! (which is junk compared to the GVP board)

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