SHULMAN@sdr.slb.COM (Jeffrey Shulman) (08/03/87)
Date: Mon 3 Aug 87 10:05:57-EDT From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR> Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V3 #36 To: Delphi-List: ; Message-ID: <554997957.0.SHULMAN@SDR> Mail-System-Version: <VAX-MM(218)+TOPSLIB(129)@SDR> Delphi Mac Digest Saturday, August 1, 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: Mac II Horrors, Continued changing pixel depth RE: cdevs (3 messages) drawpicture (4 messages) MacBug 5.3 has new command? OpenSocket (3 messages) Raskin vs. Jobs LaserWriter Plussing weirdness (2 messages) Colorizing logos RE: INFO-MAC Digest V5 #107 re: FullWrite Professional re: slippery mouse? (desk pads / teflon RE: Mac II horrors re: Potential Bug??? [menus] Re: Re: Suitcase and NFNT resources Re: Bug? TOPs and pcs and macs and vaxes and suns RE: TOPs and pcs and macs and vaxes and (2 messages) re: Site Licences etc. (2 messages) graphicworks RE: Anyone driving Compugraphics with Macs laserjet to laserwriter upgrades Printing information (4 messages) Microsoft acquires Forethought Medical applications of Macintoshes RE: macexpo SIGGraph report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MACWEEKBOS Subject: Mac II Horrors, Continued (Re: Msg 21456) Date: 24-JUL 09:54 Network Digests Mac II Horrors, Continued I believe that DiskExpress 1.05 has been superseded by 1.10 (quite a while ago). Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: JIMH Subject: changing pixel depth Date: 25-JUL 01:47 Macintosh II Does anyone know how the monitor cdev cause the desktop (or any programs) to redraw themselve with the new screen depth? I want a fkey to toggle between 1 and 8 bit mode. It pretty straightforward to set the mode to whatever depth you need and when you r elaunch the finder (return to finder you have new depth set. what is less straightforward is to get the desktop to draw itself without a launch. best jim ------------------------------ From: PIPPIN Subject: RE: cdevs (Re: Msg 1910) Date: 25-JUL 15:39 Programming Techniques David, I'll bet you have editText items in your cdev. The Control Panel changes the font to geneva-9 for you, but editText's blindly set it to chicago-12. I have been poking geneva-9 into the dialog record which seems to work. Let me know how you make out. Barry ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: RE: cdevs (Re: Msg 1915) Date: 26-JUL 22:46 Programming Techniques Thanks! I figured it out late last night, but it's nice to get confirmation. So where do you poke the Geneva-9? Into the editText, or into the grafPort, of the dialog? (Alas, I think this particular cdev won't work with a soon-to-be-released system extension.) ------------------------------ From: PIPPIN Subject: RE: cdevs (Re: Msg 1924) Date: 27-JUL 04:30 Programming Techniques I used a dialogPeek and set textH^^.txFont and textH^^.txSize to geneva-9. Its unfortunate the Control Panel dislikes editText so much, since many cdev's could use it. Good luck with your cdev! Barry ------------------------------ From: ESROG Subject: drawpicture Date: 25-JUL 17:57 Programming Techniques I guess I may be asking for too much, but here goes. When I do drawpicture, the transfer mode seems to stay as "copy"; that is, the white space of the picture is pasted over whatever was on the screen. When I call penmode(srcor), or penmode(srcxor) other drawing such as frameoval etc is done in the no transfer mode; but my picture still is done as srccopy. Shall I presume that I cannot change the drawing mode for drawpicture ? Is there another way (probably horribly complex) for drawing my pictures over the screen as if they wwere on a transparency? thanks for info, Steve. ------------------------------ From: JIMH Subject: RE: drawpicture (Re: Msg 1916) Date: 25-JUL 22:23 Programming Techniques Steve, i just went through this tonight so you are in luck ;-) it seems to require that you set the penmode after you do open ipicture. in other works the picture uses the mode set when the picture was made. well i guess you could set it before doing op en picture (hitting head with heal of hand). best jim ------------------------------ From: SOCCERKING Subject: RE: drawpicture (Re: Msg 1916) Date: 25-JUL 22:55 Programming Techniques You do have to modify the internal format of a picture but I don't think it will be all that complex, time consuming maybe, and definitly long!. First of all a good reference to have is tech note 21 which describes the internal format of a picture. Your code will have to be able to determin when it is on an opcode. To do that your code will have to be able to determin the size of each instruction, your best bet is a CASE or SWITCH statement for each opcode and calculate its size accordingly. Use that size to get to the next opcode. Upon receving an opcode with a value of 8(pnMode) change the next byte to the mode you want. Its long but should work. Interested in the results. Brent. ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: RE: drawpicture (Re: Msg 1921) Date: 26-JUL 18:09 Programming Techniques There's a fundamental difficulty with doing that: Apple insists that the internal structure of a QD picture is subject to revision without notice and the information in Tech Note 21 is provided solely for assistance during debugging. The difficulty is that you cannot tell how long an element of the QD structure is except by knowing the definition of the element types, and Apple may add a new type whenever they feel like it. peter ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: MacBug 5.3 has new command? Date: 25-JUL 17:58 Tools for Developers I just tried out the new version 5.3 MacsBug, and I see that it has a couple neat new features ... one is that the top of the screen is dedicated to a register display with stack frame and top of stack words visible and updated at each command. Another is that the character set is (maybe) a little more legible ... I'm not convinced yet. The other one is a new command UT which supposedly should take an addess. I haven't been able to figure out yet what it does ... does anyone know? (And someone else will have to report on the new Mac II debuggers!) peter ------------------------------ From: JOSEF Subject: OpenSocket Date: 26-JUL 20:02 Programming Techniques I just started digging into AppleTalk and can't seem to get the DDPOpenSocket routine to do the right thing. When you pass it a zero, it's supposed to assign you a socket number in the range 128 to 254. When I do it, it comes back with zero, even though the error return indicates noErr. I've tried this with both LightspeedC and MPWC with the same results. What's the trick? Joe ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: RE: OpenSocket (Re: Msg 1923) Date: 27-JUL 01:07 Programming Techniques DDPOpenSocket takes a VAR : Byte as its first argument. I think this means the high-order byte of a short integer, doesn't it? Maybe there is something going wrong in the way it is declared. peter ------------------------------ From: JOSEF Subject: RE: OpenSocket (Re: Msg 1929) Date: 29-JUL 21:18 Programming Techniques peter: you were 95% right. Turns out you do have to give it a pointer to a WORD size quantity, and then it uses the LOWER half. I was simply passing a pointer to a byte. What a nuisance. Just another reminder of one of the many reasons I don't like pascal. Joe ------------------------------ From: MACWEEKBOS Subject: Raskin vs. Jobs Date: 27-JUL 19:12 Business Mac History buffs should take a look at today's Wall St. Journal (July 27, 1985), in the letters section, for an interesting letter from Jef Raskin rebutting the idea that Jobs created the Macintosh, and explaining how he, Raskin, took it from idea through prototype. Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: LaserWriter Plussing weirdness Date: 27-JUL 21:12 Hardware & Peripherals I brought my LaserWriter in for the Plus upgrade today. The tech and I were both astonished that my printer remembered its name, plus its copy count and the fact that it wasn't supposed to print startup pages. Both of us thought that stuff was remembered in the ROMs (EEPROMs, I guess). ------------------------------ From: DSACHS Subject: RE: LaserWriter Plussing weirdness (Re: Msg 21517) Date: 28-JUL 20:39 Hardware & Peripherals The ROM change that turns a LW into a LW+ does not affect the EEROMS that contain the page count ... ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: Colorizing logos Date: 26-JUL 22:47 Programming Techniques I'm planning a brief MacTutor article on colorizing logos (Findswell uses a light brown if on a color Mac II). Here's the code to paint a bitmap (assuming it's a pictItem in a color dialog): #define max (37) #define RGBBlack ((RGBColor *)0xc10) #define ROM85 (*(int *)0x28e) /* COLORIZE change the color of an item in a (color) dialog (c) 1987 David Dunham */ void colorize(dialog,item) DialogPtr dialog; int item; { int type; Handle handle; GDHandle gh; PixMapHandle pm; Rect box; RGBColor colour; if (!(ROM85 & 0x4000)) { /* Mac II ROMs? */ /* Figure out screen depth of our dialog */ gh = GetMaxDevice(&((DialogPeek)dialog)->window.port.portRect); pm = (*gh)->gdPMap; /* Device's PixMap */ if ((*pm)->pixelSize > 1) { /* Enough pixels? */ /* Choose the golden-brown of Findswell's packaging */ colour.red = 39321; colour.green = 26421; colour.blue = 0; RGBForeColor(&colour); /* Set the color */ PenMode(max); GetDItem(dialog,item,&type,&handle,&box); PaintRect(&box); /* Colorize */ RGBForeColor(RGBBlack); /* Restore default color */ PenNormal(); /* Restore default pen */ } } } ------------------------------ From: DSACHS Subject: RE: INFO-MAC Digest V5 #107 (Re: Msg 21522) Date: 28-JUL 20:59 Network Digests >For:"ERI::SMITH" <smith%eri.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu> >Re:Restricting LaserWriter access on an AppleTalk network Changing the password for one of the LWs, and properly patching the LW driver and Laser Prep for the corresponding group might help. A changed password would prevent the wrong group from initializing a LW. For further safety it may be possible to patch the LaserWriter and Laser Prep files, so that the wrong LW appears to have an improper level of Laser Prep loaded. >For: <JOHNSON%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET> >Re: Excel maunal & registration time. Excel should come with 2 manuals, a looseleaf reference manual, and a paperbound manual listing all the functions and macro sheet operations. If your copy did not come with that second manual call Microsoft continuously until they agree to send it - plus the 1.04 upgrade which is free. ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: re: FullWrite Professional (Re: Msg 21522) Date: 29-JUL 03:25 Network Digests >Subject: FullWrite Professional >From: Pugh.ESCP8@Xerox.COM I hope you don't construe this as a flame at you, but you really don't want a review of a product that's not out yet. Remember all those favorable reviews of Word 3.0? Remember how a couple of MacUser columnists had enough integrity to publicly eat their words a month or two later? ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: re: slippery mouse? (desk pads / teflon (Re: Msg 21522) Date: 29-JUL 03:26 Network Digests >From: scubed!ncrcae!scholz@seismo.CSS.GOV (Carl Sholz) >Subject: slippery mouse? (desk pads / teflon feet) If you have a Plus or earlier, get MouseEase from Tacklind Design, 250 Cowper St, Palo Alto, CA 94301. I think they're $2.95, if you sent a check for that amount and a SASE, you could probably get them. The ADB mouse has built-in teflon. ------------------------------ From: DSACHS Subject: RE: Mac II horrors Date: 28-JUL 21:09 Network Digests >for: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) >re: Mac II horrors Have you tried invalidating paramter RAM with the control panel? (Start a floppy and start the control panel with the mouse while holding down all the modifier keys) ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: re: Potential Bug??? [menus] (Re: Msg 21523) Date: 29-JUL 03:27 Network Digests >From: newman.pasa@Xerox.COM >Subject: Potential Bug??? >manager put the arrow in anyway. The arrow took the last space of the >screen, and forced me to scroll to get at that one menu item too many I think that menu bug is bad design, rather than a bug. It's even worse on a 640*480 screen. ------------------------------ From: BRECHER Subject: Re: Re: Suitcase and NFNT resources Date: 29-JUL 01:30 MUGS Online >To: David M. Gelphman 415-854-3300 x2538 DAVEG at SLACVM >Subject: Re: Re: Suitcase and NFNT resources > I do have a question regarding NFNT resources. Basically I've been > trying to modify the Adobe screen fonts so that I can install them > into the system file and have only one font name appear in the > fonts menus for each font family. [Description of a moderately > complex procedure which was not entirely successful follows.] AddResMenu and InsertResMenu omit from the menu the names of resources whose first character is a '.' (period) or a "%" (percent sign). So all you need to do is to change the name of each FOND resource and *each* FONT resource for a screen font style variation sub-family. You can do this with ResEdit. Using a leading '%' is preferred to a leading '.' since the latter is reserved for device driver resource names, although at this time I think using '.' would do no harm. This technique doesn't work with some programs, e.g., PageMaker, which use their own routines to build font menus or lists and which take no pains to exclude style variations. I have pointed out to Aldus that the easiest way for a program to make a font list is to AddResMenu into a dummy menu, and then iteratively extract the names with GetItem. This has the added advantage of having the Menu Manager sort the list for you. > For Steve Brecher: assuming that one can resolve the above difficulties > with the NFNT/FOND/Font resources, will Suitcase properly add the NFNT > resources if those are in a Suitcase file. Suitcase does a lot of fancy footwork to get unlimited DAs in multiple files to work transparently. With respect to fonts, it does no footwork at all -- it just keeps the resource files open. This means that you can't, say, have some family members of typeface X in one file and other members in another; the first FOND found in the resource map chain will prevail, and only the sizes/styles listed in it will be considered "real." In most cases, this restriction is not a problem. One just puts all variations of typeface X in one file -- usually, along with all variations of faces Y and Z. While one doesn't want too many files -- and Suitcase imposes a ResEditable limit of 10 concurrently open suitcase files for safety's sake -- the situation is a lot different from the bad old days when *all* fonts (and DAs and FKEYs and 'snd 's and whatever) had to be in the same file, the System file. I am thinking about how I might allow split families in a future version of Suitcase. ------------------------------ From: BRECHER Subject: Re: Bug? Date: 29-JUL 01:30 MUGS Online To: GLAURIE%CALSTATE.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Subject: Re: Bug? > Using ResEdit I attempted to change my default view in the Finder by > popping into LAYO and changing the display. To my surprise I can change the > display to anything except "small icons", although pulling down the "View" > menu shows that "small icons" should be the current view for the active > window. "Small icons" is a special case of "icons," and is indicated by a bit in the "Filler" byte that follows the "Default view" field in the LAYO resource. It is not actually a filler; it is a set of internal flags. I think the "small icon" bit is bit 6, i.e., set "filler" to 64 decimal and set "Default view" to 1. However, this is from memory (cerebral, not silicon) and not guaranteed. ------------------------------ From: CROAS Subject: TOPs and pcs and macs and vaxes and suns Date: 29-JUL 02:11 Hardware & Peripherals G'Day! I have been asked to come up with a proposal for networking our VAXen (VMS), SUNs (UNIX), PCs and Macintie together. We have an 'ethernet' backbone for the VAXes with repeators to 'thinnet' for a 3-Com PC network and a bridge connecting us to the land of the SUNs. We also have an AppleTalk network for o ur Macs and LaserWriter. This is working just fine.. So, now management has gotten very hot on 'Office Automation', and the guy's ( Sorry, Japanese firm... no gals, but that's another story) upstairs have decided that they want to be able to do file sharing to the SUNs, VAXes and be able to use the LaserWriter we have hanging off our AppleTalk. I have nothing against any of these plans, I just have a bad attitude towards 'Bean Counters'. I have had the TOPs network suggested to me as a solution and I would like to know more than the sales guy is telling me. Can anyone answer me these basic questions: 1) Is it really as good as they claim? [Solve all your problems, allow file transfer/sharing -- PC to anywhere, wash the dishes and let the dog out]. 2) Is it as easy as they claim? [Just put the TOPs card into one of the PC servers (i.e. one with a 3-Com board) and run the software on the other computers] 3) Is this the real answer or are there other products that my Apple dealer is not knowledgeable/telling about. I'm basically looking for a story with a happy ending, upstairs gets what they want and I don't have to stop playing rogue very often to go fix it. Cheerio(es) & Thanks for the help, Greg. ------------------------------ From: NATURAL Subject: RE: TOPs and pcs and macs and vaxes and (Re: Msg 21536) Date: 29-JUL 11:00 Hardware & Peripherals 1. It does some pretty easy and 'good', if that's the word you want to use. You can copy files back and forth from PC to Mac (that's how I have it set up) without problems and it's very fast. However, just because you copy a file from the PC to the Mac (or visa versa) it doesn't make it readable. However, Centram has come out with a new translation package/update that'll help. 2. It's not as easy to set up as they make you think. It _can_ be easy if all goes kosherly and you can just plug it in and it'll work. But, it's very likely you might have interupt problems with IRQs, DMAs, INTs, etc... I went through a two week 'nightmare' of trying different software versions before I had to replace the serial board on the PC. 3. I don't know of any other product that'll do what this does as cheaply or as easily, once up and cranking. Joshua Wachs Natural Intelligence Consulting ------------------------------ From: MOONLIGHT Subject: RE: TOPs and pcs and macs and vaxes and (Re: Msg 21536) Date: 30-JUL 00:53 Hardware & Peripherals Hola! I have a similar situation and would like to hear any answers to this topic also. We are a diagnostic radiological physics group with VAX's, PC Clones, Macs, and soon at least 1 SUN and maybe 2. Macs are absolutely the best, cheapest way to make publishable graphs and line drawings (sorry, scientific graphic artists). I was just at the SUN office in Lexington to see their machines today; the salesperson pointed that Sun now owns the company that produces TOPS. There may be some kind of merger between TOPS and Sun's NFS; howeever it is not available now. I did see 1-2-3 running on a Compaq and using the Sun disk as drive D:, using Ethernet ant NFS. No Macs there, though. Alan ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: re: Site Licences etc. (Re: Msg 21524) Date: 29-JUL 03:27 Network Digests >From: Lionel_Tolan%SFU.Mailnet@umix.cc.umich.edu >Subject: Site Licences etc. According to a news story, Stanford has a site license for WriteNow. And I know my publisher, Symmetry Corp, will do university site licenses for Acta and PictureBase. And my company, Maitreya Design, can work something out if you want everyone to use our shareware programs, miniWRITER and DiskInfo. Actually, I suspect _most_ publishers will talk to you about site licensing. Pick the programs you want and contact the publisher. ------------------------------ From: JEFFS Subject: RE: re: Site Licences etc. (Re: Msg 21540) Date: 30-JUL 07:41 Network Digests Not necessarily so. ACIUS will *not* site license 4th Dimension. Also, many publishers don't really understand what a "site license" means (from the traditional mainframe sense.) I have had major problems trying to site license many of the programs used widely around here. Most of the time it turns out cheaper just to buy it from MacConnection/ComputerWare! Jeff ------------------------------ From: MER Subject: graphicworks Date: 29-JUL 10:34 Creative Pursuits Has anyone out there used GraphicWorks 1.2, or whatever the latest one is? I've been using it recently, and while it's a really cool program, seems to have a lot of bugs. No crashers, thank heavens, mostly display bugs and mis-functional bugs. ANy suggestions or indications of a new release? ------------------------------ From: RICKLEPAGE Subject: RE: Anyone driving Compugraphics with Macs Date: 30-JUL 11:39 Network Digests To: "Bob Soron" <Mly.G.Pogo%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> Subject: Anyone driving Compugraphic MCS with Macs? > My department at Boston University has a CG MCS Powerview 10 > and, I believe, an 8400 output device. We would like to use the Macs > in our office as front ends. I remember seeing ads for software that > would do this some time ago, but haven't the foggiest recollection of > any other details. If anyone out there has tried it,. I'd be very > interested in hearing about your experiences. PS Publishing, in San Francisco, is finishing up a program called PS Compose, which is a dtp-type program that is based upon the MCS command set. Their initial release should be this fall, and it will drive the Compugraphic typesetters, as well as any PostScript device. i don't think they have finalized pricing yet, but it will probably be at least $1000-$1500. call Robert Simon at PS Publishing, if interested 415-433-4698 290 Green St., Suite 1 San Francisco, CA 94133 hope this helps, Rick LePage ------------------------------ From: GECOLPITTS Subject: laserjet to laserwriter upgrades Date: 30-JUL 18:50 Hardware & Peripherals has anybody had any experience with the QMS laserjet to laserwriter upgrade ? we are particularly interested in its ability to switch back and forth from laserjet to laserwriter as we want to use it with MACS and IBM PC's running Wordstar and as far as we know Wordstar cannot drive a laserwriter (actually we go through a Starjet printer driver from Wordstar) ------------------------------ From: SOCCERKING Subject: Printing information Date: 30-JUL 00:33 Programming Techniques Where can a poor fellow find some more detailed information on the print manager and the "private Print Manager" interface? Such as 1) What the hell are Bands? 2) How do I get the spool files RefNum? 3) How or what uses the private interface declared in MacPrint(MPW) 4) Why is this information so Top Secret 5) Add your personal favorite here Is there a book or possibly a magazine artical lurking in the dark somewhere? Brent. ------------------------------ From: RUBENSTEIN Subject: RE: Printing information (Re: Msg 1940) Date: 30-JUL 19:10 Programming Techniques The reason it's all so secret is that Apple is changing the innards of the Print Manager, and doesn't want you to rely on stuff that's going to change. Apple's problem is that if the document all this stuff so that you can use it at your own risk, people will assume this is a supported interface, and will expect it to remain in new systems. Such is life... ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: RE: Printing information (Re: Msg 1940) Date: 30-JUL 22:17 Programming Techniques I can answer question number (1) anyway ... Bands are horizontal sections of a page. They are used by the Imagewriter print drivers in order to reduce the amount of memory needed during rasterizing of the QuickDraw spool file. A typical standard print page would be divided into maybe 3 or 4 bands, and the QD Picture for the entire page would be converted into a bit map once for each band, clipped each time to select the portion to be printed. Then the bit map gets shipped to the printer for each band before rasterizing the one which will fit below it. The LaserWriter driver doesn't use bands at all because the page is converted into PostScript instead. Part of the reason the printer interface is so poorly documented is that it is inherently more complex than most other parts of the Macintosh software architecture. peter ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: RE: Printing information (Re: Msg 1940) Date: 31-JUL 01:26 Programming Techniques Weren't bands provided so the code only has to image small strips of the page (I think it plays back the picture with different clipping) so as to use less memory? Having the spool file's refNum won't do spooling for you; note that certain printers (like the LaserWriter) don't use spool files. Apple hasn't documented printing internals because they're subject to change. A recent tech note says they _will_ change soon. ------------------------------ From: MACWEEKBOS Subject: Microsoft acquires Forethought Date: 31-JUL 09:31 Business Mac Microsoft has acquired Forethought and is negotiating with FileMaker Plus developer Nashoba Systems, Inc. for marketing rights to that program. Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: Medical applications of Macintoshes Date: 31-JUL 13:18 Business Mac Boston Computer Society's Medi-Mac helps organize medical panel at the Macworld Expo: Medical Computing of the Future: Paging Dr. Macintosh Medi-Mac, BCS' health care Mac user group, has helped to organize Macworld Expo's first panel on medical applications of Macintosh computers, to be held at the Expo at Bayside Exposition Center in Boston between August 11-13th. This panel, titled "MEDICAL COMPUTING OF THE FUTURE: PAGING DR. MACINTOSH" will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday, August 11th, immediately following John Sculley's address. Organized by Steven Locke, M.D. (BCS Medi-Mac and Harvard Medical School's Center for Clinical Computing), the panel will feature: Scott Finley MD MPH Chairperson and Welcome (BCS' Medi-Mac group) Joe Hutsko "Apple's role in the Future (Apple Computer) of Medical computing" Lyndon Holmes "CD-ROM Medline Retrieval (Aries Systems) of Medical Literature" Bryan Bergeron MD "HeartLab: Using the (Harvard Medical School) Macintosh to Teach Examinatiosn of the Heart The panel should be of value to anyone interested in health applications of Macintosh computers, a rapidly growing field. Developers may be paricularly interested in attending to link up with health professionals with ideas for Macintosh applications. For further information, contact Steven Locke (617-735-4664) or Scott Finley (617-277-3667). ------------------------------ From: PEABO Subject: RE: macexpo (Re: Msg 21569) Date: 31-JUL 12:26 SIG Business Party! Party! PARTY!!! The Place: Marriot Long Wharf The Time: Tuesday, August 11, between 9:30 PM and 12:30 Sponsored by BMUG, BCS*Mac, the Apple User Group Connection, Macworld, and ICONtact! If you're in Boston for the Macworld Expo on Tuesday, don't miss this chance to meet in person people you've met online! ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM Subject: SIGGraph report Date: 31-JUL 22:05 Business Mac I went to SIGGraph this week. There was a lot of neat stuff there -- I've decided I want a Pixar, only $49K with C compiler. The 2 hours of computer animation was fun. The applause was oddly distributed -- many cheers for a dancer wearing a skirt, because cloth doesn't usually appear in computer animations. Some films did have stories and characters as well as nifty graphics effects; the ones from Disney and Pixar are two I remember. Apple's booth was cramped and crowded, so I didn't look at it too much. They had one of those 37 inch screens showing a Mac II demo, and several 3rd party color monitors were on hand, as well as several 3rd parties demonstrating their software (e.g. Marc Canter with Videoworks II). I really wasn't impressed with Apple's showing. (Perhaps if I'd gone in search of something to buy and with a limited budget, I'd have been more impressed.) And a friend told me he asked an Apple person about a forthcoming genlock card...the Apple rep had never heard of genlock. *sigh* ------------------------------ End of Delphi Mac Digest ************************ -------