steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) (02/27/90)
This is NOT a product annoucement! Enhancement Systems, a division of Clearpoint, has developed a turn key imaging system for the hair and beauty industry built around an A2000. Since nothing existed, we designed our own 24 bit real time digitizer to these specs: 512 x 512 pixel resolution. 2,4,8x hardware zoom register. horozontal and vertical pan registers. genlock register for Amiga only output, digitizer only output or Amiga output overlayed on top of digitizer output. live image mode. frame capture at 1/30 sec (two fields captured at 1/60 sec each). auto configures on Amiga bus. RGB input only on 9 pin D-sub! RGB output only on 9 pin D-sub! digitizer supplies external sync for camera. This is a basic board for our system with basic display and capture software! I would like to convince my compnay to provide it as a stand alone product for the Amiga community but they would like me to prove that a market exists. My question is, would anyone purchase this board as is or would other mods be necessary? If modifications are required, what do you folks want? Please be reasonable with answers to this last question since I can't justify a product that would need years of hardware modifications before going to market. Please don't ask about price or availability since neither has been determined. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Steir - Clearpoint Research Corp., 35 Parkwood Dr., Hopkinton, Ma. 01748 UUCP: steve@frog!cpoint ATT: (508) 435-2000 BIX: clearpoint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
marc@cbmvax.commodore.com (Marc Rifkin - CATS) (02/28/90)
... that board look suspiciously alot like a Targa. If it is a bundled
package, then it probably is.
Marc Rifkin
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"...Them bats is smart, they use radar."steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) (03/02/90)
In article <9869@cbmvax.commodore.com> marc@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Marc Rifkin - CATS) writes: >... that board look suspiciously alot like a Targa. If it is a bundled >package, then it probably is. > >Marc Rifkin >Address not expressable in 3 dimensions >-- >Marc Rifkin -- C. A. T. S. >{uunet|allegra|rutgers}!cbmvax!marc >"...Them bats is smart, they use radar." Marc, You almost hit the nail on the head but instead you got your thumb. ;-) The original development of our product started about the same time as the first Live! ad. Since there were no 24 bit digitizers back then, we bought a few Targa-24's and built an address decoder to bridge the PC/Amiga busses. The software talked to the Targa board until our hardware product was ready. In order to save time, the software design and hardware design had to be run in paralell (sp?) so our Amiga board had similar specs to the Targa product in addition to some other features we needed like Amiga video overlayed on our graphic output. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Steir - Clearpoint Research Corp., 35 Parkwood Dr., Hopkinton, Ma. 01748 UUCP: steve@frog!cpoint ATT: (508) 435-2000 BIX: clearpoint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) (03/06/90)
In-Reply-To: message from steve@cpoint.UUCP > Marc, > You almost hit the nail on the head but instead you got your thumb. ;-) > The original development of our product started about the same time as > the first Live! ad. Since there were no 24 bit digitizers back then, > we bought a few Targa-24's and built an address decoder to bridge the > PC/Amiga busses. The software talked to the Targa board until our > hardware product was ready. In order to save time, the software > design and hardware design had to be run in paralell (sp?) so our Amiga > board had similar specs to the Targa product in addition to some other > features we needed like Amiga video overlayed on our graphic output. > > Steve Steir - Clearpoint Research Corp., 35 Parkwood Dr., Hopkinton, Ma. 01748 Hmm..now if only your product followed the TARGA calls and registers, we would be able to port over all the C code for the IBM TARGA's to the Amiga and have a REAL frame grabber! Is your board register compatible with the TARGA products? -- Bob _______________________ Pro-Graphics BBS 201/469-0049 ________________________ InterNet: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com | ProLine: bobl@pro-graphics UUCP: ..crash!pro-graphics!bobl | CServe: 70347,2344 ARPA/DDN: ..crash!pro-graphics!bobl@nosc.mil | Amer. Online: Graphics3D ___________ ____________ Raven Enterprises - 25 Raven Ave. Piscataway, NJ 08854
steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) (03/08/90)
In article <1747@crash.cts.com> bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) writes: >Hmm..now if only your product followed the TARGA calls and registers, we would >be able to port over all the C code for the IBM TARGA's to the Amiga and have >a REAL frame grabber! > >Is your board register compatible with the TARGA products? > Sorry Bob, but they're not. We only implemented what we needed which were bare minimums. The reason for my initial post was to get an idea of what people wanted in a "real" product and to guage how much interest there was. It seems that the interest level is high for a frame grabber of 24 bit quality. All I have to do now is get some of the important features added to the board like overscan support. Thanks to everyone who has sent me suggestions for features. The more comments and yes votes I get, the faster I can get a product to market. My company is still a bit timid about releasing to an "unknown market", so keep those electronic cards and letters coming! ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Steir - Clearpoint Research Corp., 35 Parkwood Dr., Hopkinton, Ma. 01748 UUCP: steve@frog!cpoint ATT: (508) 435-2000 BIX: clearpoint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------