This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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John, Where else but on Internet could you get a High-Noon-type showdown between ASDG/PK and BBS/BW. Entertained (and informed) me for weeks. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Ben, -> Between message headers, quoting, and signatures, there is very little -> new data at all. True ;^))))) Just to prove the point, Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Jeff, -> The other advantage to rendering in 24 bit is that if you have a lot -> of movement on screen you can convert to 736*241 or to 3 bitplanes -> without re-rendering the whole animation. You can do that with DCTV format, too, using IFFtoDCTV. I agree though…
John, -> Internet has been 95 to 98 percent junk from the very start. You should stop reading .advocacy Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Paul, I would recommend you NOT to! Have you ever used OS/2 on a PC? I can tell you, we use OS/2 2.0 on 386DX/20s w/ 12MB RAM and a 60MB partition for the system (plus 80 for apps). The OS is AWFULLY slow, gobbles up ENORMOUS amounts of diskspace…
Margaret, That just about sums up my experiences. OTOH there ARE some PC people you CAN knock out of their seats showing them the power and agility of the Amiga and its OS. Most are just in a justifying-they-bought-the-right-one mode, however. As are many Amiga users, btw. Tom / Amiga…
John, I've once seen two Q Paintboxes in action next to one of the big SGI Irises. I just wanted to go home and throw my Amiga out the window. But then again, they cost 100-500 times more. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Chris, Thanks for your views. I guess I'll have to take a closer look at the 4000. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
John, Since I'm producing for video 736 x 566 is just about all I need. Opal Vision doesn't go much higher either, as I heard. P.S. You gotta see Switzerland. Especially when you're into photography. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Margaret, Since my company (Visual Magic) is producing only for video, neither PCs nor Macs would be appropriate. I do try to follow developments on other platforms, though. Must be a tough stand being an Amigan in a Mac area? Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Chris, #99 (British Pounds) translates to about 250 Deutschmarks. For DM300 you can get Masoboshi's MVD-819. This is a real-time digitizer much like the VLab. My partner has the VLab and the only differences I could see are: 1.VLab does sequences faster 2.MVD-819 saves IFF24 MUCH faster 3.VLab has a…
Dan, I live and work in Zurich which is the economical capital of Switzerland. Your friend lives in the very south of the country (up in the mountains of the Wallis ;^). About a two hour drive on the Autobahn, I'd say. The Swiss Amiga community is very active. We…
John, IM does have paint/retouching functions and can apply an effect to any part of an image, even a freehand drawn region. Apart from gfx subsystems support, does that bring it close to Photoshop? Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Margaret, I have taken a quick look at photoshop at one of my dad's Mac friends'. I love my ADPro and IM, but it can never hurt to maintain a wide horizon. -> Unfortunately, that takes a long time on my machine. When you've waited two weeks for a three-second…
Chris, -> […] RGB converter […] adds about $250 to the price of a $400 DCTV. My converter cost a lot less. I bought it together with DCTV. -> As for DCTV animation speed I read a comparison in comp.sys.amiga.graphics using three popular AGA _and_ DCTV capable anim players. the…
Chris, -> (as opposed to _no_ genlocks with DCTV). Wrong. I use DCTV with the RGB converter and a Sirius genlock. Works perfectly. Instead of replacing color zero with the video signal the setup will replace anything close to (0,0,0). The proximity needed for replacement can be adjusted on the…
Ben, A place where OS/2 is heavily used is in all companies that use PCs as frontends to their IBM mainframe or midrange systems. OS/2 is their best choice. Not much of a market for YOU, though, I guess. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Margaret, Since my dad owns a Mac I am heavily interested in Amax and Emplant. Can you tell me what Photoshop does that ADPro and IM don't? Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Ben, You'd probably have to wait for the over-hyped NT for a dependable memory management on an Intel box. Unless you want to develop for OS/half 8^(. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Hmm… I may have to call ASDG for the Mac version. My dad uses a Mac IIsi and we transfer files via the MS-DOS path. Seems that is the lowest common denominator between advanced computer systems. For him it's not as funny because Apple File Exchange is much more cumbersome…
Ben, -> You'd have to "modularize" it a'la AdPro, and that would cripple it -> seriously Another nice kick in ASDG's direction. In fact, I'd love ImageMaster to be as modularized as ADPro is. I don't see a need to load and unpack more than 1MB of code every time.…
Margaret, Sorry if my msg read confused. I missed the beginning of the thread. I have never seen a Version of Splitz&Joinz for the Mac. Using SoftPC you might well be able to use them though. The Windows Version does work although there's a bug in the file requester. I…
John, -> Your images might be a bit too large for this… Size is no problem if you own ADPro. Just use Splitz and Joinz. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Tony, -> Tell us more about the ClariSSA, Super Smooth Anims. The SSA anim format was first introduced by ProDAD of Germany with their Low-cost Video Effects Package "Adorage". SSA Anims are always interlaced. They don't consist of full frames, but rather of different half-frames, like TV. They play a…
Robert, Imagine allows you to either render in scanline or ray-tracing mode. The difference is that in scanline objects DON'T cast shadows and shiny objects reflect only the ground and the global brush (for example a cloudy sky), but not other objects. Apart from that they are fairly identical. Tom…
Don, I didn't know the sx and dx were priced so close. Why would someone possibly want to buy an sx? Was it always like that? Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Robert, modelling is what we call the design of three-dimensional objects. The tool used for this is a modeller, which can be interactive or script-based. The so modelled objects will be put to action in staging, which is the placement of objects, a camera and light sources like actors on…
Don, -> someday there'll be a 4000/50 and so on rather a 4000/60, as the next Motorola 680×0 CPU is going to be the 68060. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Don, Don't count on the technical price. There is a difference between marketing oriented prices and real world value. The i486sx and i487sx both being full grown, but artificially crippled i486dx prove my point. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Mark, Most of what you say sounds very reasonable to me. The points mentioned in short sound like a mix of 75% Eggebrecht "announcements" and 25% Amiga rumor/wishful thinking ;^). These things, I believe, we will see sooner or later. One point, however, sounds pretty weird. What could an AmigaCard…
Don, Price is the answer. Something with the price of the 1200, the power of the 3000 and the expandability of the 4000. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Jorge, We (actually my partner is more the Scala guy) use ScalaMM mostly only for the wipes and blends. Since all our output goes to video (so far) we're not using the interactive features yet, but we plan to. Plus we used the compression feature to play large Imagine-generated Anims…
Denny, Thanx. I'll probably try to get that upgrade even though I'm not using WP much these days. We have AmiPro and a PS printer at work. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Jorge, -> Also ScalaMM does this, although I haven't tried it yet… It also -> has an utility to compress animations so that they run faster. We have an installation of ScalaMM here at Visual Magic. The main purpose of the "animation compression" is really to allow you to play…
Steven, finally someone is coming to my rescue ;^) I've been present in the MM forum for some time now, but it's a futile battle against PC ignorants. Be informed though that not all over there are unaware of the existence of other platforms than the PCs and Macs. It's…
Ben, -> So, when are they going to give you WP 5.0 for the Amiga? Never, but who needs a ported MS-DOS character mode text processor on the Amiga. I bought WP back then because I needed footnotes and WP was the only one to offer them. Tom / Amiga…
Peter, 4200 being a cut-down 4000 sounds illogical to me. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Ben, I have owned and used WP (4.1) ever since WB1.2. I now have Kick2.0/WB2.1 and WP still runs as it used to (apart from the menus being completely useless due to my Helvetica 15 WB font ;^) Tech Support at WP Switzerland has been flawless all the time. Last…
Denny, Yes, I love them, too ;^) I'm not criticizing what the Amiga tech people for what they have accomplished in the past year or two. In fact, I think it's fantastic! It's just that once you pick up speed you keep yelling for more ;^) Tom / Amiga Imagineer…
Mark and Dominick, I enjoy reading your flame war ;^) , but you're WAY off topic. Please change the subject Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Ben, According to C=, RTG is on its way (AmigaOS 4.0). Maybe if we all yell, they'll do it a little faster! Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Steve, -> Now, if they'd just dump the A500 and A600 too and release 3.0 for -> everyone developers can become less schizo and develop for a unified -> OS platform. Very good point! Unification of the system/OS is the best market weapon against the PC and even Mac chaos!…
Mark, -> I think it is exciting times for Amiga owners. I think the new -> chipset may just save the Amiga from extinction in the United States. I agree with you. But let's not get overly excited. Of course the graphics capabilities are the best in its price range…
Dennis, to add to the other two's comments: CrossDOS is included in AmigaOS 2.1 and 3.0. It is completely transparent to the system so you can use PC disks from ANY Amiga application as if they were Amiga disks. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Dom, I agree with most of what you write, BUT: -> What better way to make that -> complaint than right here online where everyone can see it and where -> INOVAtronics can also publically respond? moving down one page… -> Any problems I've had with INOVAtronics are simply none…
Kermit, so you and Ben have had their share of advertising your packages here. Too bad Perry (obviously) doesn't monitor CIS, or else we'd have a rerun of The Great comp.sys.amiga.graphics Flame Wars ;^) I own both Imagemaster AND ADPro (as most people I know do) and would not want…
Chris, a > gets eaten as well. The problem occurs only in the first column, however. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
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David, It isn't AutoPilot, but, as Betty stated, CIS. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Betty Thanks for your answer. -> You might need to put a space in front of each > That's what I've been told. I will. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
J0RGEN, If you can wait a couple more days/weeks, AskEnv from Bengt Giger may be available to you. I'm in close contact with the author and will upload the new version here as soon as he's got it finished. AskEnv allows you to use most OS2.0 gadgets and requesters from…
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