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#Badge Goodies?
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One of the C-A guys showed how to use a SuperBitMap window with hardware
scrolling (like you could take a magnifying glass and run around over a map
at very high speeds). You have to make all the right incantations, some of
which are not exactly kosher Intuition but perfectly safe. A few of us got
the *last* rev of IFF disk before it went to C-A (EA won't be able to give
customer support on it, so if you want the "official" release, you have to
contact Terry Ishida (I think) at C-A Los Gatos. The disk has the
compiler-specific bugs worked out (different .h includes for Lattice vs
Aztec) and some new thingies, like a program that takes a Dpaint picture and
makes an icon out of it for you. (I'll probably upload that one if no one
else has). There was a short demo of some guy's H.A.M. digitizer files;
apparently, he has a simple picture (like 35mm slides?) digitizer and a
GANGBUSTERS Hold-and-Modify software routine that makes 4096-color pictures.
Even in 320 x 200 they look almost like broadcast video! No question about
it, more colors improves the realism a LOT more than more resolution. Dunno
what you can do with the pictures (other than show them in a slide show),
since Dpaint &c can't hack the colors as far as I know. Bill Volk (Aegis) had
some Aegis posters and brochures; supposedly he was gonna leave a disk or two
of goodies in the library, but I didn't get a chance to see what that was.
The meeting adjourned to the Oasis where C-A guys and the rest of us pondered
the somewhat iffy future of the Amiga (WHERE IS THE BUSINESS AND MUSIC
SOFTWARE???). That was about it. More or less the same sized crowd (80-100).
Sounds like another good one, thanks for the recap. Were there any
code fragments on the IFF disk that actually display pictures? (Some sort of
minimal "slide show"?) The H.A.M. digitizer sounds interesting! Is this the
one that requires 3 passes over the image with RGB filters? Hopefully someone
will upload a few of the HAM images and a "player" for them.
Joe, I am uploading the pictures and the HAM player into PCS 155, DL7.
Hopefully, barring nothing going wrong, they should be in place by this
coming weekend (March 1). I am only at 300 baud right now, and each picture
is 48K (Only 10% or less saving by squeezing, so I won't bother so people
without SQ and USQ can use them). So, approx 50K * 6 is 300K of stuff I have
to UL at 300 bits per second = OVERFLOW ERROR IN LINE 2039.
Let's keep hoping by March 1. They are well worth the Download time.
Joe, I am uploading the pictures and the HAM player into PCS 155, DL7.
Hopefully, barring nothing going wrong, they should be in place by this
coming weekend (March 1). I am only at 300 baud right now, and each picture
is 48K (Only 10% or less saving by squeezing, so I won't bother so people
without SQ and USQ can use them). So, approx 50K * 6 is 300K of stuff I have
to UL at 300 bits per second = OVERFLOW ERROR IN LINE 2039.
Let's keep hoping by March 1. They are well worth the Download time.
Yes on IFF fragments. Yes on the HAM digitizer.
Yes on IFF fragments. Yes on the HAM digitizer.
Sounds like another good one, thanks for the recap. Were there any
code fragments on the IFF disk that actually display pictures? (Some sort of
minimal "slide show"?) The H.A.M. digitizer sounds interesting! Is this the
one that requires 3 passes over the image with RGB filters? Hopefully someone
will upload a few of the HAM images and a "player" for them.