This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#Naplps
Message #30306
A program has been written here in Montreal to emulate NAPLPS on the Amiga for Bell Canada's "Alex" experiment. It will be available from the Alex service "in a couple of weeks". The software is supposed to be free, but the proposed connect charges make CompuServe look like a charitable…
The version I have is 2.01.02 – the "read.me" lists AmiGantt.doc, but there's just a short "Changes.doc" file. Good idea, really – if you upload AmiGantt.doc as a separate file and update Changes.doc for each version, people only have to download the full docs once. When I tried to run…
GANTT2.ARC
Message #28423
Like some other people, I got an instant GURU when I tried to run the latest version of AmiGantt. I suspect that, like me, they unarced the download and copied "arp.lib" to the Lib directory without renaming it as "arp.library". Dumb, eh? Now it works fine, but the .doc file…
I missed the beginning of this thread – will your device take the RGB output from the CBM Genlock and convert it to a decent composite signal? If so, when (and how) can I get one? Thanks, Vince
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SLIDES
Message #110158
You can make 35mm. slides of your Amiga artwork without spending $2500 for a Polaroid Palette – just photograph the image on the monitor with a good camera. A recent article in Vol.2, No.10 of Amazing Computing (plus some comments in Vol.2, No.12) describes the basic method. Brief summary: (1)…
Aegis Animator
Message #107889
Is there a way to get Animator to use expanded memory? I have a Mimetics Starboard (2 megs) – if I type "ani -m400000" from the CLI, the "status" message shows 285245 bytes free. Booting with "-m400000" in the startup sequence gives me 288685 bytes free. I know there are…
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#Lens Tip
Message #105708
Another source for C-mount adaptors to let you use SLR lenses on your Panasonic WV-1410 camera is Brooklyn Camera Exchange – (718) 462-2892. I use my Nikon 50mm lens with one of their adaptors (and an extension tube) to digitize from 35mm. color negatives. Incidentally, most older 16mm film cameras…
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#Lens Tip
Message #105708
Another source for C-mount adaptors to let you use SLR lenses on your Panasonic WV-1410 camera is Brooklyn Camera Exchange – (718) 462-2892. I use my Nikon 50mm lens with one of their adaptors (and an extension tube) to digitize from 35mm. color negatives. Incidentally, most older 16mm film cameras…
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#Digi-View
Message #104690
Mike, What lens are you using? Some zoom lenses have "barrel distortion" at the shortest focal length (sides of a square bulge out) and "pincushion distortion" at the longest focal length (sides of a square curve in). If that's your problem, it should minimize at the centre of the zoom…
Steve, One of the options you suggested makes a lot of sense to me – how about putting it to a straight YES/NO vote before this thread wanders off into a general discussion of ZOO, ZMODEM or whatever? It seems that most of us are more interested in shorter download…
Larry, I don't know if the problem is peculiar to Montreal, but I've lost the phone line during a download more than once in the past, and expect that to happen again in the future. Obviously, the bigger the file, the less chance I have of a successful download. The…
Robert, Wouldn't worry too much about resolution when buying lenses to use with Digi-View – the resolving power of the Amiga is limited by the size of the pixels. Just for fun, I once digitized a standard lens test chart and got about 8 or 10 lines/mm in 640×400 B&W…
Robert, Wouldn't worry too much about resolution when buying lenses to use with Digi-View – the resolving power of the Amiga is limited by the size of the pixels. Just for fun, I once digitized a standard lens test chart and got about 8 or 10 lines/mm in 640×400 B&W…
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Amiga Photographs
Message #95254
There's an article on photographing the Amiga monitor in a recent issue of "Amazing Computing" – the one with Max Headroom on the cover. Some of the theory is a bit shaky, but the practical instructions are O.K. Your best bet would be to try to find a copy -…
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Amiga Photographs
Message #95254
There's an article on photographing the Amiga monitor in a recent issue of "Amazing Computing" – the one with Max Headroom on the cover. Some of the theory is a bit shaky, but the practical instructions are O.K. Your best bet would be to try to find a copy -…
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#New-Tek
Message #95132
Robert, I'd recommend getting the Panasonic WV-1410 camera as New-Tek suggests – a home-quality color camera won't give you anything like the same results. The lens that comes with it was designed for surveillance, and isn't much use for digitizing. The camera takes standard "C-mount" lenses – they've been used…
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#New-Tek
Message #95132
Robert, I'd recommend getting the Panasonic WV-1410 camera as New-Tek suggests – a home-quality color camera won't give you anything like the same results. The lens that comes with it was designed for surveillance, and isn't much use for digitizing. The camera takes standard "C-mount" lenses – they've been used…
From the people I know who read OMNI, and the ones who read Forbes and/or PC Week, my guess is that there are probably more potential Amiga buyers in the OMNI bunch. My friends may not be typical, but the Forbes/PC Week readers are mostly "IBM" types. Can CBM be…
Dave, On a previous thread, Joanne Bandlow said she was getting great results (even in the reds) by sending the RGB output to an external encoder, but that's a bit out of my league. (A) I don't have one, and (B) I wouldn't know how to use it if I…
After not advertising anywhere for months, Commodore has taken TWO pages in Forbes? And Larry says they also have an ad in PC Week – glory be! I thought two pages in AmigaWorld was pretty big stuff for CBM – now I just don't know what to say … Vince
Dave, Agreed – right this minute, proclaiming the Amiga as the "Personal Video Machine" is completely justified. My point was that, in a few weeks or months, CBM's broader claim of "professional-quality 3-D animation" (even by "running dinosaur" standards) will be plausible. Some of the other messages in the thread…
Dave, Right this minute, that claim of "professional-quality 3-D animations" is probably a bit premature. The programs you mentioned make all the other personal computers look sick, but have you seen "Computer Animation Magic" on PBS? The opening sequence shows several metallic ray-traced dinosaurs running across a weird landscape -…
Ben, .. and can you imagine how insufferable IBM would be today if they'd also "sucked up" Microsoft? I assume they tried – letting an outside firm write an operating system was a big switch in policy for them. Vince
#Amiga's "image"
Message #93165
Dave, So true – have you seen Commodore's two-page ad in the latest issue of AmigaWorld? "Presenting. The Future of Business"?? I think the period after "presenting" is meant to be very *significant*. In very small print (as in "where did I put that magnifier?") at the bottom of the…
Larry, Getting "locked into" the software is a factor in IBM's success with the large corporations, but their instinct for what we used to call "office politics" has a lot to do with it. Anyone who has worked for a really big company can tell you that people who know…
Many years ago, Commodore used to manufacture office calculators, hence the "Business Machines" in the name. Funny, all the big companies used to buy CBM calculators … Remember the "Pet"? The one with the 9-inch upper-case-only display and the keyboard with "keys" that didn't move?? Came with 4K, but you…
Dave, After thinking some more about what my young friend said, it seems to me that the "image" he has in mind doesn't apply to all "big buck" business. I'm no marketing major (sheesh – when I went to university, "marketing" hadn't been invented!), but it's obvious that smart businessmen…
Amiga's "image"
Message #92283
I met a young programmer about a year ago when we both had new Amigas – we shared our problems for a couple of months and then went our separate ways. Ran into him again yesterday and didn't recognize him. When I first met him, he had an impressive beard,…
Sculpt-3D>Videoscape
Message #91424
Has anyone here used INTERCHANGE to convert Sculpt-3D objects for use with Videoscape-3D? It's even supposed to convert Sculpt-3D palettes/textures to the Videoscape equivalents, which sounds like quite a trick! Having been disappointed a couple of times lately (Videoscape itself being one of them), I'm not going to throw my…
VIRUS ….
Message #88501
Larry, Are you sure that "installing" the infected disk removes *all* traces of the virus? Some people here claim to have had subsequent problems – even one disk which couldn't be reformatted! SCA has some very clever (if somewhat misguided) people – I've heard that they write data between tracks…
VIRUS ….
Message #88501
Larry, Are you sure that "installing" the infected disk removes *all* traces of the virus? Some people here claim to have had subsequent problems – even one disk which couldn't be reformatted! SCA has some very clever (if somewhat misguided) people – I've heard that they write data between tracks…
Putting a series of images on videotape and then using a still-framing VCR to digitize them "isn't exactly real-time" either, is it? To digitize in "real-time", we need a video camera aimed at a live subject and connected to the computer in such a way that the image is digitized…
Putting a series of images on videotape and then using a still-framing VCR to digitize them "isn't exactly real-time" either, is it? To digitize in "real-time", we need a video camera aimed at a live subject and connected to the computer in such a way that the image is digitized…
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Digitizing negatives
Message #73632
We did it again! Just started a nice new thread about digitizing negatives, and now we're talking about movie cameras – which are also being discussed on a thread called "Video Equipment" (#73400, etc.). Can't win … The reason I'm using 16mm. is that I already have all the equipment…
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Digitizing negatives
Message #73632
We did it again! Just started a nice new thread about digitizing negatives, and now we're talking about movie cameras – which are also being discussed on a thread called "Video Equipment" (#73400, etc.). Can't win … The reason I'm using 16mm. is that I already have all the equipment…
#Digitizing negatives
Message #73582
The new Digi-View software has a Pos/Neg switch which makes digitizing from negatives easy – just set it to "Neg" and follow the normal routine, using the RGB filters. Some of the "sliders" for adjusting the image work in reverse, e.g., increasing brightness gives a darker picture, increasing the blue…
#Digitizing negatives
Message #73582
The new Digi-View software has a Pos/Neg switch which makes digitizing from negatives easy – just set it to "Neg" and follow the normal routine, using the RGB filters. Some of the "sliders" for adjusting the image work in reverse, e.g., increasing brightness gives a darker picture, increasing the blue…
Ooops – guess I was thinking of an item in one of your columns! Something made me think of you as the "resident expert" on Digi-View and I assumed that you'd written the review. Sorry about that … One of my reasons for buying an Amiga was the promise that…
Ooops – guess I was thinking of an item in one of your columns! Something made me think of you as the "resident expert" on Digi-View and I assumed that you'd written the review. Sorry about that … One of my reasons for buying an Amiga was the promise that…
Your suggestion to "try before you buy" is good advice – unfortunately, it's not easy to follow here in Montreal. Like a lot of people, I had to decide between buying DigiView and waiting for Live! by reading everything I could find – including Matthew Leeds' eulogies of Live!. Also…
Your suggestion to "try before you buy" is good advice – unfortunately, it's not easy to follow here in Montreal. Like a lot of people, I had to decide between buying DigiView and waiting for Live! by reading everything I could find – including Matthew Leeds' eulogies of Live!. Also…
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Live!
Message #72196
John, The "reviews" I read were both written by Matthew Leeds – the second one started with "This is the story of an American Dream – " (his capitals) and went on in the same vein for five pages. Real technical stuff! What with you answering Larry and him answering…
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Live!
Message #72196
John, The "reviews" I read were both written by Matthew Leeds – the second one started with "This is the story of an American Dream – " (his capitals) and went on in the same vein for five pages. Real technical stuff! What with you answering Larry and him answering…
Thanks for the information – using data from a single vertical scan seems to be the only way to get sharp images of moving subjects. Being used to movie film, I find the "still" frames from a video monitor pretty strange. If you have a vertical line moving fairly quickly…
Thanks for the information – using data from a single vertical scan seems to be the only way to get sharp images of moving subjects. Being used to movie film, I find the "still" frames from a video monitor pretty strange. If you have a vertical line moving fairly quickly…
Could you be a bit more specific about Live! image quality as compared to DigiView? The "reviews" in AmigaWorld and a couple of other magazines were pretty vague on that point. In his reply to my question, Larry says that Live! "grabs" one vertical scan in 1/60 second, which suggests…
Could you be a bit more specific about Live! image quality as compared to DigiView? The "reviews" in AmigaWorld and a couple of other magazines were pretty vague on that point. In his reply to my question, Larry says that Live! "grabs" one vertical scan in 1/60 second, which suggests…
Larry, Nice to hear that Live! will finally be released – if memory serves, it was supposed to come out in October '85! The price is good, too – the "guess" back then was $200-$250 (which usually means a "real" price of $500+). Could you clarify one point for me?…
Larry, Nice to hear that Live! will finally be released – if memory serves, it was supposed to come out in October '85! The price is good, too – the "guess" back then was $200-$250 (which usually means a "real" price of $500+). Could you clarify one point for me?…
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