CompuServe Messages

Joe, that extra 2 Meg of memory will be the smartest purchase you ever made. For one, it'll enable you to copy all system files into a ramdisk at bootup, so you'll never see that "Please insert Workbench disk" again. This alone is worth its weight in gold. You'll also be able to use that famous Amiga multitasking to a much greater extent. And you'll have enough memory to digitize and manipulate your images. Digi-View will digitize color images one color at a time. This means you'll be using their color filter in front of your black & white camera and doing three passes. It also means you won't be able to digitize off a color video signal, like that of a paused VCR. To do that, you'll need a color splitter, which runs about $100 and does electronically what the color filters do optically. DCTV will digitize a color NTSC signal in one pass. It has a wonderful paint program. And best of all, it allows your Amiga to display full-color images with much higher quality than HAM! Think of a paused VHS VCR… now imagine such a picture coming out of your Amiga! DCTV sells for about $400; add in your memory board and you get the same $600 total, but you gain great paint software, color digitizing and full-color output. You lose out in precision (DCTV is a bit blurry; Digi-View can digitize fairly sharply) but gain a whole lot of possibilities. And if you ever get a demo of Black Belt's Imagemaster program, you'll start saving up for it. It's that simple. Blaq!