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#Wher's DCTV on CIS

    12-May-95 19:49:14
Sb: #Wher's DCTV on CIS
Fm: Ron Legro 75136,2066
To: Stephen Paschke 76613,2516
I think you can still get the upgrade to the latest DCTV software (1.1) from Digital Creations, which is now part of Play Inc. Bear in mind that DCTV's native graphics mode is really a specially encoded 16-bit IFF file. There aren't too many DCTV-specific utilities around, since most Amiga programs already can handle IFFs, even DCTV-encoded IFFs, though they likely can't display them properly. However, if you have the DCTV encoder in place, they don't need to do anything special, as the DCTV.library will handle the transformation. You can only see DCTV images in their proper colors in composite mode UNLESS you have the DCTV RGB converter, in which case they show up right on the same analog screen with the Workbench. Scan on "DCTV" while browsing the library files here (if you're text mode, the command would be "BRO /KEY:DCTV", I think) and you'll see whatever's available. Get yourself Autopilot as a Compuserve front-end terminal if you've got Workbench 2.x or up. It's easy to use and will save you money.