gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) (11/05/89)
Well, I went and did it. I bought a 2000 and a bunch of manuals to go with it. A friend came over and we copied all of his (distributable) stuff (Thanks, Rocky and Rich!). So now I have my questions: I seek more hardware, especially a memory board which will take 8 megs (the max.?) but it must be able to be semi-populated. I am also looking for another 3.5 internal floppy. There seem to be so many about. I don't think I'll worry about harddrives yet... Also, for a continuing project I would like to use this wondrous piece of new hardware. In particular, I need to be able to display still-frame images from a VCR, and to then be able to paint over those images and store only the painted portions, for later use in animation (for use in athletic analysis). I think a genlock would do, just not sure. Also, are there any digitisers which will grab frames from video input. All the ones I see advertised get their input from pictures. As for the Demo wars, American has three Amiga's demoing in their computer department, on their main aisle, closest to their main entrance (Madison store), a 500, a 2000HD, and a 2500HD. Usually, the 2000 runs the Space Ace demo and the 2500 runs the walker demo, although I have seen others occasionally. The 500 seems to get use as the machine to demo programs for prospective buyers. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kitakaze Tatsu Raito Neil Gilmore internet:gilmore@macc.wisc.edu | | Jararvellir, MACC, UW-Madison bitnet: gilmore@wiscmac3 | | Middle Kingdom Madison, Wi | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (11/09/89)
In article <2645@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes: > I need to be able to display still-frame images from a VCR, and to then be > able to paint over those images and store only the painted portions, for > later use in animation. You can do that with just a genlock if you have a VCR with a rock-solid freeze-frame and can display that image for more than 10 minutes. Not many VCRs can do that. If you use a digitizer or frame grabber and save the picture as a 32-color image, you can tell Delexe Paint read in the picture and to fix the background as a stencil. DPaint allows you to draw on top of the stencil, and then pick up the stuff you drew and save that to disk. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@gemini.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"