ULC@PSUVM.BITNET (09/25/88)
I read in one of the latest mags about a new frame buffer that was demoed
by Impulse at the AmiExpo in Chigago. Does ANYONE have any more information
about this ??????? If please post !!!
Thank you..
Jason Twamleybjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay) (10/01/88)
In article <54643ULC@PSUVM> ULC@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I read in one of the latest mags about a new frame buffer that was demoed >by Impulse at the AmiExpo in Chigago. Does ANYONE have any more information >about this ??????? If please post !!! > > > Thank you.. > Jason Twamley Jason, here are some messages I saved from CompuServe recently. Stan had uploaded some images he had recorded with DVI, and I was impressed! So he very kindly provided this information to us. Betty Clay, SYSOP, CIS AmigaForum 74145,657 #: 3922 S2/Talk to the Trade 15-Sep-88 22:20:03 Sb: #3916-#Video digitizers Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767 To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 74145,657 Betty - Not too shabby huh? Actually I was getting a marginal cable feed on Tuesday, hence the small heringbone interference in the pics. I think I uploaded some info on it into DL2 some time back. Essentially it's a standalone unit, which plugs into the parallel port of the Amiga. The VD1 (Name of the unit) will grab 1 or 2 fields (2 fields = 1 frame) in real time at a 60th of a second. Viewing of the grabbed image is done on a second monitor (or the composite input of an Amiga monitor). The image is then transferrred into the amiga using software that comes with the unit. It takes about 25 sec or so to bring in a full 400 line HAM overscan image. As we use our own RGBN file format internally, we get perhaps the best HAM cleanup (palette choice) available on any amiga software. As we are using sophisticated hardware, the source can be ANY NTSC video input. Live, Broadcast, Tape or LaserDisk. We have recently added frame buffer capabilities to the unit. So now you can capture and output in 24bit mode, or users wil be able to generate 24bit pictures in Turbo Silver ver 3.0, and dump them our frame by frame thru the vd1 to tape in Higher resolution (768X768) 24bit NTSC. Using the frame buffer pretty much eliminates the jaggies. Retail price on the VD1 with frame buffer is $995. We will have a limited amount of units at $600 with our the frame buffer capability. As for availability, we are hoping for RAM to be delivered within 3-4 weeks. We have one room at the shop stacked with units all without the ram. Grrrrr.... We thought about offering the unit without RAM and letting the users get their own, but we are using a VERY FAST 4 bit chip that's hard for every one to get at a reasonalbe price. BTW I did get 18-20 pics from the special if you would like them, leave me an address in E-Mail, and I'll shoot ya out a disk full. Stan Kalisher (Impulse) Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767 To: Steven Bennett/SYSOP 70046,441 (X) Steve - The 25 seconds is to bring the transfer the data from the VD1 thru the parallel port and display it on the Amiga screen in HAM format. <--Stan #: 4111 S2/Talk to the Trade 18-Sep-88 16:14:48 Sb: #4108-Video digitizers Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767 To: Perry Kivolowitz 76004,1765 Perry - The 24bit mode in the VD1 and Turbo Silver 3.0 refers to the 16. whatever colors displayable from a RAW RGB file. Using the VD1 you can capture a RAW Image and send it back out the VD1 NTSC only. Our engineer who designed it claims that NTSC however can only display reasonably about 2.5 million colors. Using turbo Silver 3.0, we can generate a 24bit file, and then dump it out to NTSC via the vd1 in frame buffer mode, and you get very clean de-pixelized images dithering isn't a problems as the color palette is so large that shading is beautiful. This is the optimum way to go if you want to dump to tape or film on a frame by frame basis. The only problem is that the 24 bit files can get very large. I have generated some that are in excess of 1MB each. I would assume that the output of your scanner could also be run through the VD1 for maximum resolution and colors. We would be more than happy to provide you with any file formats or information you might need. Just give us a call. Stan Kalisher (Impulse) --------------------- Hope this answers your questions. Betty Clay ...........killer\!pollux\!bjc
bjc%pollux.uucp@UDEL.EDU (10/04/88)
Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 3854; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:09:12 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:09:07 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ac23339; 1 Oct 88 3:51 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa23326; 1 Oct 88 3:49 EDT From: "Betty J. Clay" <bjc@pollux.uucp> Subject: Re: Frame Buffer??? Message-ID: <12607@pollux.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 88 03:01:40 GMT Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275 To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <54643ULC@PSUVM> ULC@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I read in one of the latest mags about a new frame buffer that was demoed >by Impulse at the AmiExpo in Chigago. Does ANYONE have any more information >about this ??????? If please post !!! > > > Thank you.. > Jason Twamley Jason, here are some messages I saved from CompuServe recently. Stan had uploaded some images he had recorded with DVI, and I was impressed! So he very kindly provided this information to us. Betty Clay, SYSOP, CIS AmigaForum 74145,657 #: 3922 S2/Talk to the Trade 15-Sep-88 22:20:03 Sb: #3916-#Video digitizers Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767 To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 74145,657 Betty - Not too shabby huh? Actually I was getting a marginal cable feed on Tuesday, hence the small heringbone interference in the pics. I think I uploaded some info on it into DL2 some time back. Essentially it's a standalone unit, which plugs into the parallel port of the Amiga. The VD1 (Name of the unit) will grab 1 or 2 fields (2 fields = 1 frame) in real time at a 60th of a second. Viewing of the grabbed image is done on a second monitor (or the composite input of an Amiga monitor). The image is then transferrred into the amiga using software that comes with the unit. It takes about 25 sec or so to bring in a full 400 line HAM overscan image. As we use our own RGBN file format internally, we get perhaps the best HAM cleanup (palette choice) available on any amiga software. As we are using sophisticated hardware, the source can be ANY NTSC video input. Live, Broadcast, Tape or LaserDisk. We have recently added frame buffer capabilities to the unit. So now you can capture and output in 24bit mode, or users wil be able to generate 24bit pictures in Turbo Silver ver 3.0, and dump them our frame by frame thru the vd1 to tape in Higher resolution (768X768) 24bit NTSC. Using the frame buffer pretty much eliminates the jaggies. Retail price on the VD1 with frame buffer is $995. We will have a limited amount of units at $600 with our the frame buffer capability. As for availability, we are hoping for RAM to be delivered within 3-4 weeks. We have one room at the shop stacked with units all without the ram. Grrrrr.... We thought about offering the unit without RAM and letting the users get their own, but we are using a VERY FAST 4 bit chip that's hard for every one to get at a reasonalbe price. BTW I did get 18-20 pics from the special if you would like them, leave me an address in E-Mail, and I'll shoot ya out a disk full. Stan Kalisher (Impulse)