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- From: jbk4@email.psu.edu (The Prophet)
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- Subject: Re: Mimetics Framegrabber, anyone?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 21:11:40 GMT
- Organization: Cybernetic_Expressions
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- In article <4iut6n$9ov@ra.nrl.navy.mil> jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung) writes:
- >
- > I inherited a Mimetics framegrabber, the provided software has
- > difficulty surviving my CPU/RAM settings, I suppose -
- >
- > 1) "Framebuffer" interactive frame-grabbing. It worked on
- > an A3000 with 3Meg Ram (2meg in chip, 1meg on-board) but locks
- > up on a SC-Zip etc. system.
-
- I had one a while back in my A3000. I do have sc-zips but didn't experience
- lock ups.
-
- One thing though, the pointer disappears when it opens a requester to save/load
- a file, I think. But if you click around, it should come back. I think the problem
- was with 2.x OS or a bad prg running under 2.x.
-
- The tech at mimetics suggested disabling fastram, which I didn't care to do.
-
- >
- > I haven't yet tried the CPU NOCACHE etc. stuff, it's also pretty
- > funky because its not font-sensitive and so doesn't display well.
- >
- > The non-interactive CLI program seems to command ok, but not all
- > options I'd like are available.
-
- I don't think I tried the cli prg.
-
- >
- > 2) In any case, when I get a frame I'd like to pull it into my paint
- > program TVPaint(jr) or DCTV, so I suppose I need a FAQ on the variously
- > flavored files these use and how to convert them to ILBM.
- >
- > 3) Is there driver plug-ins for this board that go with other
- > image-manipulation pgms? Are there technical specs to program it?
- >
- > Greg
- >
-
- Save the images as separate R,G,B files. The soft will save in RAW?, RGB, and
- HAM formats. RGB save three individual files with a .ored, .ogreen, .oblue
- suffix.
-
- ADPro can load these using the SCULPT loader, the UNIVERSAL loader won't
- recognize the files. You need to provide some infoo to the loader. Select
- COLOR and give a resolution of 746x484(Ithink). If the res is wrong it won't
- work. Then you can save it however you like.
-
- Jaeson K.
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