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From: rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Best way to scan/obtain images?
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:48:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsd.1992Nov16.214834.2554
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Nov16.114115.875@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil> dyer@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil (Doug Dyer) writes:
>Hey!
>
>	Whats the best way to obtain images into the computer?  Hand scanner?
>Digi-view? Whats a "xapshot"?  
>

	Good question. I guess it depends on what you want the images
	to be. If you have a color photograph and would like to get it
	into your Amiga, then a 24bit scanner would be the best choice.
	If you have this neat statue, then maybe a Digi-View or Xapshot
	would be better. Oh, the Xapshot is a "quasi-digital" camera
	in which the photographs are stored on a small disk. I say
	quasi-digital because it is not exactly digital, but analog.
	I think Harv Laser could better explain it. As a matter of fact,
	this may be an FAQ.....
	Anyway, the Xapshot in combination with DCTV seems like a very
	nice way to get images into the Amiga. Has anyone compared the
	Xapshot/DCTV with Digi-View? Just curious....
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: HELP AB20 CD-ROM and CDTV
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:35:30 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

>In article <Eggman.0oy6@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Eggman@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Eggman) writes:
>>Hello all, I am trying to use the AB20 CD-ROM with my A3000 using a CDTV...

In article <15633@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes:
>It's a known problem; the AB20 disc doesn't work with the CDTV.
>I don't know of a fix, but you should be able to get a refund.....

	Just FYI, Walnut Creek's literature says:

		"If you are dissatisfied with any disc for any
		reason you may return it for a full refund."

                                                        Dan

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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV and what can it do.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 06:09:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <92321.153003TPATTERS@ESTEC.BITNET>

>Hi Harv
>
>I was interested in your discussion about the Parnet program for linking a
>CDTV to an Amiga. I have an A500+ with a GVP Hard Disk in the expansion
>port - exactly where an A570 unit would sit. And I believe there is no way
>to have them both connected at the same time i.e. no through-port on the A570.
>I also have an old A500 (1.2 KS, 1/2 Mb chip) which I could use for a CDTV
>upgrade offer. The price difference between a CDTV and an A570 is not that
>greate, and you get a much sexier looking unit with the CDTV as well as
>a remote controller... so the big question is, with parnet will my A500+
>be able to use the CDTV as though it were an A570, and allow me to use my
>Hard Disk as well - or do you know a way of connecting the two at once.
>
>Yours in ignorance 8-)
>
>Tim

Heh heh.. sometimes that's my motto too, Tim :-)
Parnet connects two Amigas or one Amiga and one CDTV together via
their parallel ports. Either machine can access the resources and
devices of the other machine, that is, you can type on your Amiga
and read files off the CDTV's CD ROM drive. This is gonna be slower
than slapping the A570 on a 500. How much slower? well an A570
ona 500 will be just as fast as a CDTV. The parnet way is gonna be
as fast as the two computers + parallel port can push the data around,
faster than a floppy but slower than a hard drive. 

I don't own a 500 nor an A570, but from all I've read and seen
about it, when you hook the two together you basically have all
the functionality of a CDTV machine, but, as you've noticed, the A570
has no bus pass-thru. So yes, if you were to Parnet your 500 to
a CDTV, you would still have full use of your 500's hard drive and
anything else stuck to it or installed inside it. And you could talk
to the CDTV. For instance, (I like to cite this example) you could
buy Walnut Creek's "GIFs Galore" CD ROM for about $25... it has six
thousand GIF pictures on it. You could access them from your
500 over Parnet from CDTV's drive and do whatever with them. 

Another possible plus for a separate CDTV isyou could unhook the thing,
take it to your living room, plug it into your tv/stereo setup,
and sit on your sofa and control it from across the room to play music
CDs, or CDTV games or apps on your television. You could drag it to
your user group meeting aong with Hypermedia Concept's Fish Disk CD ROM
(now has 700 disks on it) and slap a floppy drive on it and let
the club members make their own Fish Disks from the CD with a nifty
version of Express Copy that comes on it. 

Either solution will let you do basically the same stuff. The two-machines
with parnet solution may prove to be a bit more versatile, in the
long run, and if your 500 explodes, you still have a backup computer
to use.
.

Harv
From: pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Pro - more Questions
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:02:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: academ01.pl159410.722102578

cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:

>We have full support for ANIM Brushes. You can play an ANIM brush,
>control the number of loops and even alter the speed of the brush.
>You can also give an ANIM brush a path so it will move across the
>screen as it animates.

     When you say 'a path', what kind of a path?? Linear?? Curved? Splined?
Accelerated/deaccelerated?? And can you ping-pong an animbrush (as you
can in DPaint... have it play forwards, then backwards, then forw. etc..?)

>There is basic support for the AA chip set (AGA graphics). AmigaVision
>Professional can display AA pictures and brushes and play AA animations. 
 
     Basic as in 'support for all currently defined modes'?? Will all transition
effects work in these modes?

>There is no direct support for IFF24 pictures in the new AmigaVision.

   Of course... that'd be too hard :)


>You can modify the speed of ANIM playback in AmigaVision Professional.  

   BRAVO!!

BTW, will AV respond to MIDI messages? Serial msgs? Messages from a CDTV 
IR controller? (For CDTVs only, of course). And what kind of laserdisk/
VCR drivers will we see in it? Is there the possibility that it will include
drivers for IR-based control? (Control a VCR thru a joystick port with an
IR LED attached... as with AirLink from Geodesic software?)

>Cathy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: fse@phx.mcd.mot.com ()
Subject: CDRoms
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Group
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:07:01 GMT


Greetings...   There has been some anouncements/discussions in past about
CDRoms available with various collections of data/programs/pictures
whatever.  Unfortunately I didn't save that information away at that time
and have now aquired a CD Rom drive for my A3000.

If some kind sole could post (or mail if you're lucky enough to get it
through to me) the titles and sources (even prices?) of such CDs.

I remember something about a wuarchive (sp?) compilation of freely
redistributable Amiga stuff on a CD..  Where can I can it? How?

Anything else would be of great help.. (A CD of Gifs or jpegs would be
great!)

Also any recomendations of commercial CDs for the Amiga/CDTV would be
great!  I'm running the Xetec CDx software with CDTV emulation on a Toshiba
3301. (love it!)   I've seen a few CDTV disks and am not to impressed.  I'm
looking for something that really makes use of the technology and not just
a port of a floppy based game.  I hear that Defender of the Crown II is
coming out soon and that it uses the CDRom to its advantage..  is there
anything else that you've seen or tried that impressed you as being truly a
result of the CDRom technology enhancing the machine?
 
Thanks in advance
Stan

asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!fse
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Best way to scan/obtain images?
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:56:48 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Nov16.114115.875@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil>, dyer@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil (Doug Dyer) writes:
> Hey!
> 
> 	Whats the best way to obtain images into the computer?  Hand scanner?
> Digi-view? Whats a "xapshot"?  

It depends on what you need.  If you are scanning clip-art (i.e. B&W), a
hand scanner will do fine.  

If you are scanning 5 x 7 photos and 18 bit color is enough, the Sharp
JX-100 (I think that's the #) works great.  Although ASDG's software seems
to have a problem every now and then... not sure what causes it.
It is slow though.

If you need 24 bit color or full-page scanning, the Epson flatbed scanner 
works best.  It gives the best color, and since it can be run directly from
ADPro, it's easy to automate scanning and processing through ARexx.

If you can afford it, the Epson is the way to go.  I've used all of the above,
and I like the Epson best.

James

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: easton@zds-oem.mi04.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Tandy VIS finally surfaces
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:20:06 GMT

  In todays mail I got the latest Radio Shack flyer.  In it they
have a two page spread on their new Memorex MD-2500 VIS player.
This is yet another CDTV style CD-ROM interactive entertainment
system.

  They've got it priced at $699.95 and apparently doesnt come with
any discs except a special bonus disc of Comptons Multimedia
Encyclopedia.  Several other titles were mentioned but no pricing
or part numbers were listed.

  From a EE Times article the VIS supposedly runs a Intel Processor
and a special version of Microsoft Windows.  The screen shots in the ad
didnt impress me very much, even though the text hyped a 16 million 
color display.

  I'm not sure what the CDTV is going for these days, but based on
features alone, I see nothing in the VIS that would make me rush
out and buy one.

-- 
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From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re:    CDTV and what can it do.
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:39:49 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

 HRL> "Representing the Mambo" - Little Feat. 
 HRL> Warner Bros. Records 9 26163-2.
 HRL> Look for the small yellow CD+G sticker on the outside of the
 HRL> longbox.

That's the one (as if you wouldn't know it! :).  I really liked that
snippet in one Bryce strip in .info "Nice Laser, Harv!"  :)

>The only disc I've bought for my machine to supplement those that came
with
>it is "The Heroic Age of Space Flight - Nasa... The 25th Year".  I really

 HRL> Rather amazing disk, retail priced around $25 and contains a 30
 HRL> minute
 HRL> CDXL "film". 

Actually, it's a 50 minute film and it cost me only $23 Canadian minus my
club discount.  Obviously price varies depending on area.

 HRL> And it's 100% Imagine-Raytraced graphics by Brad Schenck. Absolutely
 HRL> stunning. If Labyrinth doesn't spur a few CDTV sales, I don't know
 HRL> what
 HRL> will. 

Trust me, it will!  Not too long ago many people were starting to talk like
"CDTV is dead" locally here (and presumably other places too) but with some
of the new releases recently, and especially the impending release of
Labyrinth, that has TOTALLY changed and most people either want to or soon
plan to get into Amiga-CD.  I certainly don't regret buying my CDTV!  It's
brill!  :)



Steven Hurdle.... The Swindler.... Rumour/News-columnist.... Canadian....

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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AVPro -more ques... SCALA, etc
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:01:13 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

>>There is no direct support for IFF24 pictures in the new AmigaVision.
> 
>    Of course... that'd be too hard :)

Yeah, and if they added it you would complain the program was too big.


BTW, in case some of you haven't seen SCALA yet, you gotta see their 
demo scripts that come with the MM200 version shipped with the 3000P's!
It comes with some really neat transitions, backgrounds, etc...
and the user interface looks kinda' spiffy as well.
Too bad it still has a few bugs.  It crashed (not very ofter I'll admit)
on the 4000 I installed it on about once every 45min.  I'm not sure what caused
it.

Their standalone player *never* ran one script without crashing immediately!
The disk could have had a glitch though.

The nicest thing about SCALA is everything in the software, including the
backgrounds, fonts, music, and transition/effects that come with it *look*
professional.
Unlike the POS demo CBM did with AmigaVision that uses the most horrid
music and simple graphics in the 'Hands On' section of the demo.

BTW, I think it would be very wise for CBM to update the AmigaVision feature
that builds data disks to include compression.  (If I can do data compression
on a Z80 based embedded system, I'm sure they can buy 'The Data Compression
Book' and add one to AV. ;-)
But then, when did they ever do anything wise.

James Diffendaffer
The usual "my opinion only" disclaimer applies.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: streeter@cs.unca.edu (Tom Streeter)
Subject: Personal Vectorscope Experience?
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:16:08 GMT

I'm considering purchasing a DPS Personal V-Scope and would be
interested in any comments anyone might have from firsthand experience
with the thing.  E-mail responses will be summarized and forwarded to
the group if there is interest.

Sorry if this is a FAQ or otherwise beaten-to-death subject, I'm a
newbie around here.....



-- 
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From: petter@pnilsen.UUCP (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AVPro -more ques... SCALA, etc
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:54:15 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Ultima Thule Software
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Nov20.020113.61073@cc.usu.edu> sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:

> BTW, in case some of you haven't seen SCALA yet, you gotta see their
> demo scripts that come with the MM200 version shipped with the 3000P's!
> It comes with some really neat transitions, backgrounds, etc...
> and the user interface looks kinda' spiffy as well.
> Too bad it still has a few bugs.  It crashed (not very ofter I'll admit)
> on the 4000 I installed it on about once every 45min.  I'm not sure what caused
> it.

There's a problem with the original Scala MM200 which makes it unstable on
Kickstarts after 39.97. This is fixed now and you should be able to get a
fully working version from Scala Inc. or maybe the place you bought it from.
The new MM202 also supports the AGA much better, allowing 256 colour and HAM8
pictures and animations to be displayed.

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From: dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDRoms
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:08:35 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

fse@phx.mcd.mot.com () writes:
> If some kind sole could post (or mail if you're lucky enough to get it
> through to me) the titles and sources (even prices?) of such CDs.

Please Post!

> I remember something about a wuarchive (sp?) compilation of freely
> redistributable Amiga stuff on a CD..  Where can I can it? How?

You are probably thingking of the AB20 CDROM from Walnut Creek.

     Walnut Creek CDROM
     1547 Palos Verdes Mall
     Suite 260
     Walnut Creek, CA 94596

     1-800-786-9907

     1-510-947-5996
     1-510-947-1644 FAX

> 
> Anything else would be of great help.. (A CD of Gifs or jpegs would be
> great!)

Walnut Creek also has a CDROM with 6000 gifs!
Actually, they have CD's for different systems, call them up and see if they 
will send their catalog.

> Also any recomendations of commercial CDs for the Amiga/CDTV would be
> great!  I'm running the Xetec CDx software with CDTV emulation on a Toshiba
> 3301. (love it!)   I've seen a few CDTV disks and am not to impressed.  I'm

Same software and CD drive I have.  I only have two CD-TV specific CD's so far.
The NASA 25th year CD, I can read the text and view the still pictures but 
cannot play the CDXL animations.  Dominion's 'Advanced Military Hardware' CD
is ok if you like military hardware, ie airplanes, tanks, ships, missles, etc.
The interface is a pain to use interactivly but the self play mode is reasonably
impressive.  (Drew a *lot* of attention at the expo our club recently held.)
The Fred Fish CD's by Hypermedia Concepts are almost a must have, 700 Fred Fish
disks on one CD.

Just my comments...    

Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDRoms
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 21:47:54 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

For some decently priced CD ROM collections, check out the
catalog of an outfit called Walnut Creek CDROM. They're in
Walnut Creek, CA. they run their own anonymous FTP site: cdrom.com
from which you can download their catalog and other stuff. They
publish a $25 CD with over 6000 GIFs on it (see my review in 
the latest issue of AVID magazine re: this CD and using it with
CDTV). 

Harv

[not affiliated in any way with Walnut Creek CDROM Co. Not even
a press sponge.. I bought the CD from them]
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Hey.. CDTV owners, check out Fish 759!
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:07:22 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

CDTV owners - there's a new CD audio disk player on Fish Disk
#759 by D. Amor. Copy it to a bootable WB disk and boot your CDTV with it.
It presents a little Workbench window interface with 
REW PLAY FF PAUSE STOP FADE DISPLAY SINGLE buttons and a 3-line
readout that tells you what it's doing. 

"So what" you say.. Well the so what is that it runs on the Workbench
and multitasks, so you can play your audio CDs while using 
other stuff on CDTV. The built-in fancy-screen CDTV audio player
doesn't do this, of course.  I'm usin this little program right now
and it works fine for me. Yet another reason to slap a floppy
drive on your CDTV. 

Good work, D. Amor!

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AVPro -more ques... SCALA, etc
From: dyer@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil (Doug Dyer)
Date: 23 Nov 92 08:19:49 -0400
Organization: NRL SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION

In article <petter.0974@pnilsen.UUCP>, petter@pnilsen.UUCP (Petter Nilsen) writes:
> In article <1992Nov20.020113.61073@cc.usu.edu> sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:
> 
>> BTW, in case some of you haven't seen SCALA yet, you gotta see their
>> demo scripts that come with the MM200 version shipped with the 3000P's!
>> It comes with some really neat transitions, backgrounds, etc...
>> and the user interface looks kinda' spiffy as well.
>> Too bad it still has a few bugs.  It crashed (not very ofter I'll admit)
>> on the 4000 I installed it on about once every 45min.  I'm not sure what caused
>> it.
> 
> There's a problem with the original Scala MM200 which makes it unstable on
> Kickstarts after 39.97. This is fixed now and you should be able to get a
> fully working version from Scala Inc. or maybe the place you bought it from.
> The new MM202 also supports the AGA much better, allowing 256 colour and HAM8
> pictures and animations to be displayed.
> 

I saw a video-tape of that SCALA demo. WOW! what punch this package has.  What 
speed do scala animations run at in 640*400 + overscan HAM8/256 color modes? 
I am pulled from Opalvision to DCTV to AGA, but SCALA seems to be the software
I want to drive it :)

thanks,
	Doug

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From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: AB20 files lists, please ?
Date: 21 Nov 92 12:27:16 +0100
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering


Are there files with names and descritions of all files on the AB20 cd-romdisk
? If so, where can I get them ? OR are there perhaps ppl who already have all
.dir files of this disk ? (preferrable in TBBS or pcboard format) ?

Please respond by e-mail,

tia,
Michel.
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re:    CDTV and what can it do.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:24:44 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

[....]
>It definitely is true.  I'm in Canada, but I'm sure we have all the same
>CD+G discs available for the most part.  There's a good Hendrix CD+G
>available, but the best is probably "Remember the Mamba" from some band I
>can't recall the name of.

"Representing the Mambo" - Little Feat. 
Warner Bros. Records 9 26163-2.
Look for the small yellow CD+G sticker on the outside of the longbox.
>
>The only disc I've bought for my machine to supplement those that came with
>it is "The Heroic Age of Space Flight - Nasa... The 25th Year".  I really

Rather amazing disk, retail priced around $25 and contains a 30 minute
CDXL "film". 

>like it.  What have you picked up so far?  Labyrinth is DEFINITELY on my
>list of things to get once it's available!!!  It's reportedly a
>tremendously huge RPG.

And it's 100% Imagine-Raytraced graphics by Brad Schenck. Absolutely
stunning. If Labyrinth doesn't spur a few CDTV sales, I don't know what
will. 

Harv