CompuServe Messages

Andrew, Sorry to hear about your formatted disk disaster! I've had my fair share of "operator boo-boos" on just about all the platforms I've played with. One of my more memorable ones was the "rm -f" I typed into a shell on a SUN workstation — it opened up a lot of disk space for me! Back to your situation, I am a little surprised you don't have a quicker means of transferring data between the Amiga and the MAC other than SneakerNET! Seems a little communication software and a null modem cable could make things easier and speedier for you. If you get some time, you might want to experiment with some of the other capabilities in IM (check out asterize if you want to burn up an interesting hour). That's one of the problems I have with IM — so many parameters and options to tweak, I end up doing a lot of experimentation. Don't know what you thought, but I liked the morphing section. I was pleasantly surprised with the results I generated doing a simple morph between my head and my wife's head (guess I've seen one too many TV commercials). As for a DuoTone feature, I don't have a method to do what sounds to me as palette manipulation operation, however, you might want to try Charles method (thanks Charles!). I don't know if ADPro or ImageFX has this feature either, although I do own both of those packages as well. Can you tell I don't do greyscale? Guess I've been lucky, have only had to deal with color images (yea, I know greyscale can be viewed as x-bit color image). Most of my challenges have been in reducing the number of colors in an image without destroying the image beyond recognition. The number of bit planes seems to have a big bearing on the performance of playback <grin>. This gets even more fun in animations. That week for the kiosk project was one of the longer weeks I've experienced — probably a lot like the one you are currently having <grin>. Controlling the Laser Disc was one of the first things I had to settle. Before I even selected the authoring software to use, I got the manufacturer's info on the control command set for the player (RS232 – serial based) and developed a simple but effective means of sending these commands out the serial port via ARexx and AmigaDOS. Worked just fine for my purposes, but then I found out both SCALA and AVPro had "Laser Disc Drivers" integrated within these packages that I could use. Fortunately, I spent only a few hours doing it my way, but it did give me the option to consider other authoring software solutions. Eleven weeks to deliver a product sounds fairly challenging to me if I had to learn a new authoring program in addition to the challenges of a new platform and it's method of "this is the way things are done here lad." Your points about doing this on the Amiga are some of the major reasons I "force" the Amiga solution for my multimedia endeavours and believe SCALA has even capitalized on it!