karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) (07/07/88)
For those awaiting the new Digiview software and have prepaid, you should be getting yours any day now; I got mine yesterday. The new version supports vertical and horizontal overscan in all resolutions (yea!, also, hmm, got a hard disk read/write error in 704 X 480 X 16 mode, haven't seen one of those since getting the new 2090 driver, click retry, it works, hmm) a "line art" mode for digitizing high-contrast monochrome stuff like logos and such (sort of like Kodalith), and appears to fix the problems where if Digiview picked a dark color for the wrong color register, one couldn't read its menus. It may do other stuff. I didn't see anything else that's new in the manual. By the way, Digi-Droid is a lot of fun. I think most hacks like to see their computer drive mechanical things, so why not the color wheel for $80? The only problem is that the servomotor they used can only do about 270 degrees, so you can't select the clear filter; indeed, one must move the filter away from the front of the lens to digitize monochrome, a good idea anyway 'cuz why have this optically relatively stinking piece of clear plastic between your artwork and your camera anyway? :-) -- -- uunet!sugar!karl -- These may be the official opinions of Hackercorp -- I'll have to ask Peter.