#Help Mac->Amiga
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Hello all,
I work at a broadcast television station we have created a number of
graphics on a Q950 macintosh in 32 nit color. Is there any disk format
that I can transfer into the Amiga that has a Video Toaster attached??
I know the mac side real well and nothing about the Amiga. Any help would
be GREAT!!!
Thanks Bob Ross
The Amiga has a Prg/Floppy Drive combo that allows Amiga's to Read/Write
Format MAC Floppies,its called MAC2DOS if I'm not mistaken.Also Newtek
makes a Gadget called the Mac Toasterlink or something like that that
networks yer MAC and Toaster together so you can easily share files and
such.
You can use Mac-2-DOS from New Horizons software to make a direct floppy
read/write to/from Mac and Amiga disks. It also includes conversion
utilities for graphics images, including TIFF and perhaps others. New
Horizons has a topic on this board, so you could ask 'em about it.
Another route would be to simply modem the graphics over to the Amiga.
Some Amiga software, like Art Dept. Pro and possibly ImageMaster, can read
Mac-format graphics. The Toaster software alone won't do it, I don't
think.
Your images might be a bit too large for this… but you could use PC
format disks, then read them on the Amiga using CrossDOS, a commercial
product that's also part of Workbench 2.1. However, you'll be limited to
720K per PC disk, and you can't use high-density floppies.
John,
-> Your images might be a bit too large for this…
Size is no problem if you own ADPro. Just use Splitz and Joinz.
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Have you actually used Splitz and Joinz on the Macintosh? I've never been
able to make it work. I have been able to make it work in the DOS
environment. Haven't tried the Windows one.
Actually it's fairly easy to transfer split files to the DOS environment
since MSDOS's copy commands allow the automatic joining of binary files to
each other. There are PD utilities as well for splitting them.
Kermit Woodall Nova Design, Inc.
I'm glad there is reasoning to this. I could and still can't make it work
in the Mac environment. I've done some work with Resedit and it still does
not like whatever ASDG has done to it. I frankly don't use the Splitz and
Joinz on the Mac and I have an Amax and it is nothing to transfer a disk to
disk partition.
Margaret,
Sorry if my msg read confused. I missed the beginning of the thread. I
have never seen a Version of Splitz&Joinz for the Mac. Using SoftPC you
might well be able to use them though. The Windows Version does work
although there's a bug in the file requester. I often carry multi-MB PPage
PS printings to the laser printer in the office.
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
It was included in my version of Adpro. Sorry I can't give you the version
number etc. I find that a Targa file transfer between PC/Mac/ Amiga files
is really the way to go. It is the most ubiquitous and it works!
Hmm… I may have to call ASDG for the Mac version. My dad uses a Mac IIsi
and we transfer files via the MS-DOS path. Seems that is the lowest common
denominator between advanced computer systems. For him it's not as funny
because Apple File Exchange is much more cumbersome than CrossDOS.
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
As I said, I couldn't make it go. Let me know what you find out. I have an
Amax and a partitioned harddrive. That works flawlessly. The transfer is
quick and painless. I transfer 7-10 megabyte graphics files to a Syquest
cartridge and then have them converted with Photoshop to PICT files. This
is what is required by the service bureau that I use for their film
recorder. They'll do a Targa conversion to PICT but they will charge you
$65.00 an hour to do. Probably wouldn't take them that long but I get it to
them in PICT anyway.
Margaret,
Since my dad owns a Mac I am heavily interested in Amax and Emplant. Can
you tell me what Photoshop does that ADPro and IM don't?
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
I don't own Photoshop but I have Macintosh friends who let me use my
Syquest cartridges on their machines. I only use it to make a PICT file and
to verify that the image made it to the Syquest. There is an old demo of
the program in the Adobe forum here. It is a long download. Perhaps a
Macintosh user group/store would have a demo copy. It is my opinion that
with IM and Adpro and Gigamem, you would not need to use Photoshop (except
for that PICT file format!). It is much nicer to work in the Amiga
environment. Photoshop has one function that I like "unsharp mask" which is
excellant for cleaning up scans. You can use it after you scale an image –
it sharpens the edges a tat. IM has a super scaling function. I've taken
smaller resolution files and bumped them up about double with it. I do get
some jaggies but I get a nice image. It is better to render the exact file
size you need with Imagine. Unfortunately, that takes a long time on my
machine.
Margaret,
I have taken a quick look at photoshop at one of my dad's Mac friends'. I
love my ADPro and IM, but it can never hurt to maintain a wide horizon.
-> Unfortunately, that takes a long time on my machine.
When you've waited two weeks for a three-second Sculpt-4D Animation to
render on an A500 just to find out it isn't what you expected (like me),
an 030/50 is like heaven. I got used to the speed too fast, though ;^).
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
Thomas,
Photoshop on the mac is an Industry standard photo retouching s/w.
Works with very large ( not video res ) images quickly? Full color
with the right h/w. Kinda like DCTV paint with no limit to image size.
This type of s/w is still yet to come to the Amiga.
IM and ADPRO are image processors, big difference, thoogh Photoshop
does have some IP functions.
John,
IM does have paint/retouching functions and can apply an effect to any
part of an image, even a freehand drawn region. Apart from gfx subsystems
support, does that bring it close to Photoshop?
Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged
I would like to point out a slight mis-statement:
When using WorkBench 2.1 & a High Density Commodore Floppy Drive, it is
easy to transparently use HD (1.4MB) IBM Floppies on your Amiga.
You can even use the same drive to read HD Mac & IBM Floppies from the
AMAXII+ Mac Emulator, if you have Apple File Exchange, Dayna's DOS
Mounter, or a number of other DOS utilities for the Mac.
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom
Beside using ADPro or such to convert a TIFF or Targa image, you can use
the ReadPict utility which came with the Toaster to load a Pict image. To
get the file to the Amiga, either use a null-modem cable, a PC floppy with
crossDos/MultiDos on the Amiga side, or get ToasterLink from NewTek.
Bob, Mac-2-Dos from New Horizons will allow you to bring your images over
to your Amiga, and if they don't include any conversion for images, our
ImageFX package for the Amiga reads and writes TIFF format images among
many many other image formats. (shameless plug)
Kermit Woodall Nova Design, Inc.
So…. Kermit… :^)
Where's my ImageFX???
–Ben
…via AutoPilot
Uh…in the mail? 🙂
Kermit Woodall Nova Design, Inc.
Right. :^) I spoke to the lady you suggested – nice lady, very good and
proper response, too.
–Ben
…via AutoPilot
Ben,
I'm still waiting for my prize, too. Kermit referred me to GVP, where I
talked to a nice Ms. Shiela Kirby…who told me that they would be sending
it out "real soon now".
Jonathan, via AutoPilot // Only Amiga makes
\\// it possible…
As did I, on Kermit's suggestion. Not his fault, obviously.
Ms. Kirby seems like a nice person.
–Ben
…via AutoPilot