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#20668-
RGB to HSV
Message #20994
There is code to do this in Graphic Gems, vol 1. I don't have it handy at the moment but it shouldn't be too hard to locate. – kevin
#20668-
RGB to HSV
Message #20994
There is code to do this in Graphic Gems, vol 1. I don't have it handy at the moment but it shouldn't be too hard to locate. – kevin
Steve, I did mean the 1990 disks, I don't have the 1991 materials yet though I intend to get them when they're available to people who didn't get to devcon. I hadn't realised that it would be (i) licensed or (ii) so closely tied to Appbuilder. I figured that I…
AppShell
Message #15574
Has anybody had any luck using the appshell.lib from the 1990 devcon disks with Aztec C 5.0d. The linker doesn't seem to recognise file as an amiga object file. Manx's adump utility reports: "Got funny code 3fa @ 0" A Type OPT H of the file has the first three…
#21223-
#What's the latest Ver?
Message #21481
I've always thought that by constructing an amiga library and using the INLINE feature of M2Sprint it should be relatively easy to interface to other languages. You do need to know the offsets for the library jump table but if you build the library yourself that's no problem. So no…
It is a 201 number, New Jersey not 203. I haven't checked their bulltin board for a week or so but they hadn't replied to a bug report last time I looked Kevin
#Image Compression
Message #1300
Vic, Ariel Thanks for your replies. There is an interesting recent paper on fast compression algorithms with very fast (~1 sec) decompression in the Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Pattern Recognition. IEEE publish these. The paper is: "Hierarchical Visual Pattern Image Coding" Dapang Chen and Alan C. Bovik…
I know of the chipset. For my application I can do compression much faster than JPEG with probably comparable image quality at the same compression. My client wants software, the incremental hardware cost hurts his marketing (he says). But I'm very specialised. The new NeXT machine graphics board includes the…
I've read the general publications on Barnsleys methods. I'm not impressed. The encoding computation costs are horrendous (and fingerprint archives are huge, small systems are >300,000 images). Second he seems to require human intervention to encode. I can't accept that. As for JPEG the most recent suggestion I saw (in…
#IFF Chunky Pixel
Message #1144
I recently registered as a developer with CATS. I use the Amiga to develop image processing and matching software, mainly for automatic fingerprint recognition. At the moment I have a very ad hoc collection of program harnesses used for developing compression algorithms. I want to rationalise these, at the moment…
M2Sprint and 2.0
Message #17880
A short note for anybody interested. M2Sprint works well under 2.0 on a 3000. Compiles, links, programs run (as one would hope). I haven't tried running from the F3 key yet as I never do that anyway. It is very fast. The only glitch that I have found so far…
1 I totally agree with everything you say. It is exactly my own assessment of Leon's conduct in this forum over the past few months. Kevin
#17253-
More on (long)reals
Message #17456
Leon Your remark about those not interested in using M2Sprint coming out with fairy tales and whining on Compuserve is both offensive and untrue. We have admittedly crossed on CIS earlier this year. I am very interested in using this package, you currently have a specific bug report and a…
#107458-
#Dynamic Arrays
Message #107689
I've just uploaded dynamem.zoo to the library. You will need the DBUG macro package from the Fish disks to compile it, otherwise just do the obvious edits to remove the debugging macros, there are only a few lines affected. The package is very reliable, I have used it on Amigas,…
Harry, I think you have the latest version. The release was called 1.10, the editor shows 1.11 in its "About " panel. Apparently upgrades were called 1.11 and New Sale packages 1.12 for some administrative reason. An improved (and faster) debugger called 1.12 was later uploaded to the library in…
Robert, Please advise Martin NOT to use ARP again. It broke partially between 1.2 and 1.3 (some of the commands) and now again, seriously, between 1.3 and 2.0. However nice it was there is no excuse for that, CA have always made the rules clear. I only use it for…
Thanks for the reassurance. I knew the editor didn't use the ARP file requestor, I just had a nagging memory of something about the regular expression code used on start. One can say m2a xxx#?.mod and so on.
On the plus side for SAS. It is a big complex package. It is also enormously powerful. One of my staff has just done a massive and very sophisticated R&D job with it. It cut months of our development time (on Sun-3s and Sun-4s). If you need something like SAS…
M2S and 2.0
Message #16690
Sylvain, you mentioned the ARP stuff breaks in 2.0. I never use it but the M2S editor does. Do you know if that will break. It matters, my 3000 is on order! Kevin
I'm really trying to stop this languages debate, not fan it. The following (1960) quote from S. Gill, one of the early pioneers of automatic programming really summarizes my views on the whole subject. "If computers had existed in the Middle Ages, programmers would have been burned at the stake…
#101844-
Dubuggers? Why?
Message #102169
I agree, I like strongly typed languages, that is why I prefer to develop in M2. I think the compiler should do the checking for me. I might move to rexx for prototyping, as I do for small tools, because it is also quite stringent in its checking.
Leon, Thank you for that reply to Wayne, he obviously expressed himself more clearly than I did. That information, including the contact address, is really all I needed at this point.
#101606-
Dubuggers? Why?
Message #101613
personally I prefer interpretative debuggers. Ever used Saber-C on a Sun? With the new generation machines I'm likely to prototype in Rexx then port for production for this reason. Right now I do prototyping and algorithm development in Modula-2 and port my release code, which has to go to a…
#'030 vs '040
Message #99949
About the '030 vs 040. Note that the first generation 040 chips are 25Mhz. These should just drop into a 25 MHz system. The dead products are the >> 25 Mhz '030 systems, why do all that EXPENSIVE extra engineering when the next CPU doesn't need it. For my money…
Mine also came at the beginning of the week ( Sub # 11149)
I thought of that, I load M2E in my startup sequence. After that the only time I even need the M2Sprint_Tools disk is to load Compiler/Linker (first time used) or if I'm in the throes of debugging. I specifically don't want to keep reloading the environment. Kevin
Thanks, I'd only tried the implementation as stand-alone once, late at night so I may have overlooked something, I'll try again. On further thought about default tools I decided that I could live with I could live with M2Sprint: by pulling some more trickery with PathMan.
I would prefer the default tool for editor files to be C:M2A. The whole point in the HOT mode is to get the editor loaded and then keep the small activator where you can get at it fast. In my case I keep M2A in RAD:C which is my C:.…
#Targa to Amiga?
Message #12300
I need a conversion program for Truevision TARGA images ( ICB and VDA ) formats either to ILBM or a straight display utility. I have some of these as test input data for some software of my own but currently have no code to reduce them from 32768/256 color respectively…
Thank you, it is obviously fixed now and is much faster tonight. Kevin
#slow response
Message #1139
Why is the new forum structure so slow, I'm getting messages like files busy, or no response at all for a minute or more when I just try to move through the menus, it takes 30secs odd to respond to a go AmigaTech. I heven't attempted the other forums, I…
#133746-
#TID compiler
Message #133760
Just to add my own comment, as I've posted a couple of times recently I too have been able to do what I want with the TDI compiler. Now that I have enough ram to keep the M2 modules in memory I am also impressed with the speed. It isn't…
thanks for the note, I'd missed some of that stuff. However raw (integer in this case) CPU is not the only is, there are display issues too and a UK Government spec that runs to 100+ pages. The Amiga isn't really in that market yet at a credible, supportable level,…
thanks for the note, I'd missed some of that stuff. However raw (integer in this case) CPU is not the only is, there are display issues too and a UK Government spec that runs to 100+ pages. The Amiga isn't really in that market yet at a credible, supportable level,…
#131779-
#Contd.. Modula-2/Amiga
Message #132088
Since I seem to have started the thread that produced the flames (TDI bug) that led to this more rational thread I'd like to throw in my comments. Despite all the bug reports on the modules that have been flying around I've not been bitten seriously since the original InOut…
#131779-
#Contd.. Modula-2/Amiga
Message #132088
Since I seem to have started the thread that produced the flames (TDI bug) that led to this more rational thread I'd like to throw in my comments. Despite all the bug reports on the modules that have been flying around I've not been bitten seriously since the original InOut…
TDI bug
Message #128932
B ug in Opaque Type Handling The R3.01a, March 88 release of the Modula-2 Compiler for the Amiga does not handle Opaque Types. The following sample code reports 83: procedure implementation different from definition when compiling the IMPLEMENTATION module. Both modules compile without errors with the R3.01a (November 87) and…
TDI bug
Message #128932
B ug in Opaque Type Handling The R3.01a, March 88 release of the Modula-2 Compiler for the Amiga does not handle Opaque Types. The following sample code reports 83: procedure implementation different from definition when compiling the IMPLEMENTATION module. Both modules compile without errors with the R3.01a (November 87) and…
I received my disks today, they also say 3.01a. Problem is after I complained at TDI last November I got a set of disks which said 3.01a !! 🙁 I couldn't get that one to behave nicely, it didn't like compiling out of ram:, vdk: … The latest one is…
#110710-
source version control
Message #110957
not very close, if I could drop my other stuff I could probably get something simple running in a month or two, troubleI have a customer breathing down my neck and he always wants the next improvement yesterday … 🙁
converting image formats
Message #110237
A question, has anyone found an elegant (and fast) method for converting the Amiga's bitplane format to a nice pixel per byte form for quantitative processing? My own shift and OR code is moderately fast for C and 68000 but I keep wondering about the PixMate "Hyper-Slice" technology …
source version control
Message #110236
Does anyone know of a source code version control package for the amiga? I'm not looking for SCCS or RCS but I would find something that kept track of a simple sequence of version numbers (1, 2, 3, …), dates, and comments very useful. Most of the bits are around,…