rtc@cca.UUCP (Richard Carling) (07/06/83)
I am submitting this message since this is a service that most atari owners may be interested in and not be aware of. There is a company that will digitize photo's for atari owners. By digitize, I mean they will scan in the photo's so that you can see them on your TV screen. For $20.00 they digitize two photo's and send them back along with a floppy disk. The floppy disk contains a fairly nice paint program (copyrighted but not copy protected), a basic program to use as an example for loading the pictures, and the digitized pictures. A few example pictures are also included on the disk. The digitized pictures come out in black & white (16 gray scales) (They can digitize color pictures but they come out in b&w). Additional pictures are digitized for $6.00 each. The pictures are digitized in Graphics 9 so make sure you have a GTIA chip before sending them any money. The results are fairly impressive, digitized faces come out real good. If you send them "high detail" type pictures (such as text, etc) and a note, you can get it digitized in Graphics 8 but the number of gray scales is very limited in Graphics 8 so black-white pictures are best (company logo's, etc). Also, the paint program only runs in Graphics 9, 10 & 11 so any pictures done in Graphics 8 cannot be manipulated with the paint program. The disk auto boots and is menu driven so using the software is easy. The paint program is very extensive and includes commands such as line, rectangle, circle (any size), flood (floods an arbitrary closed polygon), color mix (for graphics 10), pick, put, load and save. There address is: Computer Techniques 329 North Harvard Street Allston Mass. 02139