HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:43:59 GMT

In article <BxtGBz.7Ho@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>> benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:
>> >
>> > to display an old ham image under a new 256 color or ham8 pic. (two
>> > windows) How would I do this?  MultiView won't open under workbench,
>> > I assume because workbench isn't supporting the color depth.  So how
>> > do I get workbench run in 256 or HAM8?  Or alternatively how do I
>> > open a high-color screen
>
>Hmm, I had just the opposite problem.  For me, multiview _always_ opens
>on my workbench screen even when that results in horrible color
>matching.  Maybe there's some option to control this: I haven't checked
>the docs yet.

HAM8 pics will open on a screen, as will HAM.  There is a SCREEN option
that forces MultiView to open pictures on a screen instead of a window.

>Anyway, to get a 256 color WB, just select that from preferences as you
>would for lesser depths.  Fair warning though: 256 color workbenches get
>_slow_.  I can tolerate 5 plane workbenches fairly well, but 8 is a bit
>much in any sort of decent resolution.

Try running CPUBlit -b.  It seems to work fine and I have not had any 
troubles when using it.  The -b option clears up the color flickering
that occurs when the text is scrolling.  Under 2.04 on the A3000, this
option was not necessary, but it apparently is under 3.0 on the A4000.

>> > I suppose I could just have two screens and drag them around, but that's
>> > not my first choice.
>
>Why not?  Then you can have exactly the palette you need, and you only
>use the memory for the duration of the time you need it.

Agreed.  MultiView does a fair job of selecting the palette for pictures
in a window, but it cannot compare to a dedicated screen.

>   - steve

Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: "scott gillies" <scott.gillies@canrem.com>
Subject: beta testers wanted
Reply-To: "scott gillies" <scott.gillies@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:30:31 EST

Hello Marc. My name is Scott Gillies and I am an Editor/Animator at
McLellan Productions in Toronto, Ontario. I've been using the Toaster
and Lightwave since just after it was released and have had my
editing/graphics/animation work used in corporate and broadcast work. I
consider myself a fairly advanced user of Lightwave and the rest of the
Toaster system. I'd be happy to give the once-over to any product you
may be working on. Call me at (416) 597-2020 or reply through the net
and I'll get back to you. Later.
SG
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: shulick@osage.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Imagine2.0 anims lagging... :(
Originator: shulick@osage
Reply-To: shulick@osage.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:05:24 GMT


I'm having probs w/ animations.  Last night I rendered a 40-frame
animation w/ some intense graphics.. a white wood table on a reflective,
checkered floor.. and the animation was rather slow.  When the camera
was close to the table, the speed of the anim was pretty lagged, but as
the camera zoomed out, it got faster.  is this a result of my lack of
RAM, or what?  I can't make nice anims now, because of this stupid
lagging.  (I have an 030, 6M RAM)  The animation was about 1.8M, but
I've had 2.7M anims work better than this one.

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From: masc@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Martin Schulze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Visiona
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:55:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbusol.1edsi6INNmof
Organization: Studenten-Mail, Rechenzentrum Universitaet des Saarlandes
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matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
> Anyone tried the Visiona graphics card? It looks pretty awesome.

Its terrible!
Lots of Crashes and too expensive and no software-support :-(
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: s1180252@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (N Ashford (CHUGGLES))
Subject: Re: AMIGA - GIFs
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:13:51 GMT

S.J.E.Champion@bradford.ac.uk (SJE CHAMPION) writes:

>Helo all. I've been looking through usenet for the first time, and I've
>found a section called Alt.binaries.pictures.misc , in which are
>contained lots of GIFs in ASCII. I would like to know if there is any
>way I can save these onto a P.C. formatted disk ( P.C.'s only, here )
>and load and view them on my A500 at home ( running Cross-Dos and Wasp ).
>I have a Hard drive and 4meg memory.

>Hope someone can help a new face,

The good news is that you can indeed view these pictures.  The bad news is
that you need the right software to convert them.

To start you must remove all the header and footer garbage from the files,
there are usually messages like "cut all above here", indicating what text
needs to be removed.

Once all the garbage has been removed you must join all the files together.
If you're using a UNIX box just use cat,

cat filename1 filename2 filename3 >filename4  <-where filename is the name
of the files.

Next you must covert the files from ASCII to BINARY.  To do this under UNIX,
use uudecode,

uudecode filename

If an error occurs it is most likely that you have left some garbage text in
one of the files so go back and check, remove it and join the files again.

Your system must have a uudecoder or you wont be able to use the file.  If you
system doesn't there are versions available for the amiga, from various ftp
sites.

Finally just download the files from your system to MSDOS, using your systems
transfer utility, ie kermit, ftp etc.

Chuggles
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: A-4000/1960 monitor skew again
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:29:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Ben Scott (bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:

> A client of mine has bought an A-4000 and a 1960.  Of course, the 4000 is
> beautiful, wonderful, and all that.

Agreed!  Its a great machine.

> side.  800x600, 640x400 DBLNTSC and a few others are particularly bad.  In

Interesting; I had that same problem with DBLNTSC, but not with SUPER72
(which is the 800x600 mode).

One thing you could try is to use Multiscan:productivity instead of
DBLNTSC.  I think that is a roughly similar resolution, and also
flicker-free.  It might center better.  (Or it might not.  Who knows).
There are a few other 640x400 or 640x480 modes also that you could try.
Maybe one will center OK.  I'm amazed there are differences between
individual machines though; I love 800x600 mode, and it centers great.

> 1280x400 Euro-36 mode, which is fine for Workbench (until you try to run

You really think 1280x400 is fine for workbench?  I find the aspect
ratio so bizarre that its worthless for workbench, but is OK (and even
quite nice) for displaying images as long as you can correct for the odd
aspect ratio.

  - steve

PS - one note about Imagine - it copes with extra resolution very
nicely.  I run it in 896x628, and it uses the full screen resolution in
all the editors almost as if it was born doing that.
From: BKessler@cup.portal.com (Brett L Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Patrick Nagel artwork
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:49:16 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

If anybody can give me a hand here, it would be greatly appreciated.
After quite a while of searching and condensing, my collection of
artwork by Nagel has been considerably whittled down by a combination
of bad disks, mislabeled disks and duplicate files.

What I'm trying to do is greatly enlarge my collection of Nagel
artwork.  Can somebody please tell me a site that has many of them,
in just about any format, though IFF would be preferred?

I have all of the ones that are here on Portal, so this is a list of
the ones that I am NOT LOOKING FOR.  I do, however want the ones to
fill in the gaps.

	  1	  2	  3	  4	  5	  6	  7
	  8	  9	 10	 11	 12	 13	 14
	 15	 16	 17	 18	 22	 23	 25
	 49	127

Thanks a lot in advance.

+------///-------------------------------------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:11:53 GMT

In article <amipb.03l4@amipb.gna.org> amipb@amipb.gna.org (Philippe Berard)
writes:

>    I know there are great peoples in the CATS, but I think they don't have
>    enough time to do what's really needed. We're currently developing
>    a GUI with all (and more) functionalities that I told you about.

Well, why didn't you say so. Tell us more... since we both seem to see 
NeXTStep as ideal, perhaps I owe you a beer! :). Are you designing with
2.0/3.0 compatibility in mind? How about some screen shots?

>    You're 90% right, the other 10% goes for me ;-) I think some people
>    are really thinking about the GUI, and the best example I know is
>    Gold Disk's FontManager with it's popup menus and images in the
>    gadgets...

I haven't seen FontManager, but you have to admit, Pro Draw itself has
three separate GUI designs. Yech! 

>    But why does CBM stay in the StoneAge ? A global icon interface wouldn't
>    be so hard to make, and using a graphist to change the look of the
>    icons wouldn't be that lot of work. I know Chris Green is often here,
>    in c.s.a.graphics, can you give your opinion on that, Chris ???

Hmm... I imagine that they're devoting most of their time to RTG, at least
I hope that this is the case. It would indeed be nice to get someone like
Jim Sachs to do some consultation on aesthetics though.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: duncan@loris.cisab.indiana.edu (Shan Duncan)
Subject: edit color of video seq.?
Organization: Indiana University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:23:49 GMT


  In a research project we would like to change the color of a
subject and then replay the video for reaction.

  For example if we have a fish that is red on the belly we would like
to take a display sequence of that fish and change the red color
all through the video sequence before we play it back to another fish.



  How?   Any and ALL suggestions welcome including hardware and software
suggestions!!!!!!!!!!
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:51:07 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Nov20.080711.7207@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <69975@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Nov22.052524.1231@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

Ben Scott,

You keep saying "warp" - do you mean the velocity curves?

I'll look at this, too. Thanks.

Ben
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:52:31 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Philipe Berard,

"Please don't program them with gadtools"

Dont' worry, we won't. Gadtools is far too limited to be useful, and
it's not retargetable, which is the kiss of death as far as we're concerned
for v10.

The phrase "2.0 style-compliant" refers to how to highlight and so on; it
say not one word about having to use AmigaDOS tools to achieve that
compliance - although CBM does provide gadtools, only rudimentary
facilities are available there (and I don't just mean the issues you
mention, although they certainly do count) and so we've been writing custom
code for months.

Thanks for the feedback.

Ben
From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Ze mail, she has bounc-ed.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:35:01 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

TO the person who has a reply address of:

      benjamin@zds-oem

I received email from you. I sent you two replies. Both "bounced". Part of
this may very well have been my fault; although I've been using Internet mail
for a while now, I've only been using the Portal "reply" facility, which
returns replies whence the message originally came. I now know how to sent
er, send, theings wherever I need to, but your messages are no longer in my
mailbox.


So, if you'd like, re-mail me and we'll do this again. I'll probably get it
right this time. :^)

Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Ze mail, she has bounc-ed.
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:21:34 GMT

In article <69842@cup.portal.com> blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams) writes:
>TO the person who has a reply address of:
>
>      benjamin@zds-oem
                       ^^^^^^^^^??
  No wonder, your missing the domain.  Try benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com

>I received email from you. I sent you two replies. Both "bounced". Part of
>this may very well have been my fault; although I've been using Internet mail
>for a while now, I've only been using the Portal "reply" facility, which
>returns replies whence the message originally came. I now know how to sent
>er, send, theings wherever I need to, but your messages are no longer in my
>mailbox.

  e-mail is like that.  I've hit the "reply" key several times on
e-mail I've recieved and its been sent to never-never land.  Somehow
the reply to field is incorrect.  I'm pretty sure our's is okay, as
I've had lots of e-mail replys to me and I know Adam has as well.

>So, if you'd like, re-mail me and we'll do this again. I'll probably get it
>right this time. :^)

  He's gone till Monday.  I'll mention it to him in case this expires
before he gets a chance to read it.

>Ben

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: dtiberio@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: How do I run files with .lha ending?
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Keywords: look, Dan...I set my Followup-To line properly!
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:37:48 GMT

In article <Bxvz0K.xL@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang) writes:
>
>     I have noted that many of the ftp sites contain files that
>have .lha ending, so this will definitely help a lot.  
>     What do I need and where do i get something that would allow me
>to run Amiga files with .lha ending.  I tried to run some of
>them directly from WB3.0, but an error message was given.
>Thanks in advance for any assistance.

	.lha files are called archives, and 99% of the time are compressed
at a 50% ratio for binaries, down to 30% for text, or 90% for pictures and
sounds. Archiving allows us to make files smaller, taking up less disk space,
and make a group of files combined into one file. For example, the Amiga UUCP
program contains at least 100 files all in one .lha archive, compressed. This
makes it easy to transport over modems, ftp sites, and directories.

	You need either a program called LHA or LZ version 1.92 for the
Amiga. You can remove the files from UNIX machines also and then transfer
to the Amiga, but that would increase the amount of time it takes to download
it over the modem.

	Then, put the files you want in an incoming directory somewhere on
your Amiga. Make sure it is stored on a disk somewhere and not just ram. 
Then, decide where you want the archive to be decompressed to. I would like
to suggest using ram. Make sure you have at least twice as much free ram as
the size of the archive.

	Then type the following format:

lha x archive_name.lha to_path:
lz x filename.lha ram:

	If the archive name is newemp.lha, and you want it to decompress to
work:incoming, you would type:

lha x newemp.lha work:incoming/

	All of the files would then be decompressed into the work:incoming
directory. You can choose any directory, including ram:, provided you have
enough room to fit the files. Otherwise some of the files may not be 
decompressed.
	The newemp.lha or whatever .lha file you have will not be destroyed.
I suggest you make a backup of the .lha file just in case you make a mistake.

	I would suggest getting LHA instead of LZ, but make sure you get an
LHA that is UNREGISTERED. Otherwise you will not be able to use it. Usually
version 1.32 and lower are unregistered, or around that area. If you need to,
try calling my BBS and get it from there. You and anyone else who calls will
have free unlimited download access at speeds as high as 14,400.

	Let me know if you need more help. Followups to csa.introduction,
since Dan kept reminding me over the summer. :)

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From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Help me! A4000 Problem!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:35:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>My five-day-old A4000 is somewhat unconscious now: It will not boot.
>Here is a summary of what happened.

>I left my A4000 running overnight because I was rendering an animation
>in Imagine. After about 20 hours of non-stop working, when I turned out
>the monitor, the A4000 was still working fine. I did a couple of things
>in DPaint and then I loaded ADPro. I wanted to load a 24-Bit picture but
>the memory was fragmented so it did not load. No problem. Hit the three
>keys to reset (There was no harddisk activity when I did this!)
>Wait......The harddisk led blinks.......nothing! Weird. Turn the
>computer off.Wait twenty secs. Turn it back on. The power led flashes a
>couple of times in a guruing fashion....the screen is black.,...the
>harddidk led blinks......nothing. What the hell? Reboot......the same
>thing. After seeing this, I decided to let the Amiga cool for a while.
>After two hours, I turned it on and it booted. But I had to go to class
>so I didn't do anything. I was happy that it was working again and
>turned it off. When I came back from class I turned it
>on.........nothing!!! I rebooted.....this time the power led flashed a
>couple of times...and a green screen came up (one of the diagnostic
>codes).....reboot.....a yellow-green screen......reboot.....black
>screen...........

>What is happening?  Why did my A4000 start doing this just because I
>resetted it? I suspect that the harddisk is having a problem with spinup
>but the color-diagnostic screens may mean something else. Does anybody
>know what those colors correspond to? By the way: No, I cannot boot with
>a floppy Workbench because the boot sequence gets stuck at the first
>second of its activity....

>Can anyone help me?   Commodore?   Dave Haynie?  Pleasee......I want my
>A4000 back!

>Thanks.

>Berend

Bad news, Berend.  This is exactly what happened to my first unit,
fortunately after only two days.  When I returned it to the dealer,
their tech guy said the yellow-green screen indicates memory failure,
though he wasn't sure whether it was Chip memory or Fast memory
that was involved.  They were going to pull the 2 meg memory and
replace it at first, but they decided instead to just replace that
unit with a new one and ship that one back to Commodore as DOA.

Take yours back to your dealer pronto, unless you've already
registered it with Commodore for Gold Service.  If so, call them
right away.

Frank
Minotaur@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery)
Subject: Quick GIF viewing
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:24:24 PST

I mentioned the program I use for viewing GIFs quickly called GIFT and
received a few requests for it.  I mentioned that I didn't have the full
archive, so I sent only the program.

My apologies.  I was able to find the entire archive and I'm going to
post it to comp.binaries.amiga.  If you don't see it shortly after you
see this, please give me a hand figuring out what happened to that news
group (I haven't seen anything in there for months and the post I sent
up several days ago still hasn't shown up).

If some kind soul with FTP access will grab it and post it to your
favorite FTP site, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: bjslagt@cs.vu.nl (Bart J. Slagt)
Subject: Re: Nickprefs...
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:44:21 GMT

christ@cie.uoregon.edu (Christian G. Smith) writes:

>Osma Ahvenlampi (oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi) wrote:
>: In article <1992Nov13.084321.60796@cc.usu.edu> slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:
>: 
>: >  Busy Pointer Preferences:  Allows you to edit the Busy Pointer.  Supports
>: >                             an animated pointer as well.  You just set the
>: >                             number of frames, draw each frame, and off
>: >                             you go....
>: 
>: The BusyPointer editor crashes my system after a while of editing. Is this
>: a bug or do I have a bad version?
>: My setup is A500 w/ 68010, 2MB FAST, 1MB CHIP, Supra 500XP w/ 40MB & 80MB
>: drives... I have a lot of Commodities running, but I'm pretty certain it's
>: the editor..
>: Osma Ahvenlampi  -  oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi   * Workstation power for micro-
>: All my opinions are not necessarily really mine * computer price: Amiga := FUN
>  I have this problem too, and it SUCKS...Otherwise NickPrefs is an incredible
>improvement on the 2.0 WorkBench...
> 
>-christian

Gee, I've used NickPrefs since I bought my 3000 and it never crashed!

Full of Questions, Bart.