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- Short: Pictures from World Of Commodore show
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- PICTURES FROM WORLD OF COMMODORE SHOW, PASADENA, CA.
- SEPT. 11-13, 1992 by Harv Laser (harv@cup.portal.com)
- All pictures are JPEG 24bit color 768x482 full overscan
-
- These files contain 4-up (four pictures on each screen) digitized
- pictures taken at the show by Harv Laser using a Canon RC-250
- "Xapshot" still video camera. The pictures were grabbed from the
- camera and the montages created with DCTV by Digital Creations. Each
- picture was saved out of DCTV in IFF24 format and then further
- manipulated using Art Dept. Professional by ASDG and Light24, the
- paint program included with the Firecracker 24 bit display card
- by Impulse. All photos are Copyright 1992, Harv Laser, all rights
- reserved. The pictures may be freely distributed providing you don't
- edit them in any way. Email me with any comments. Please don't
- publish these pictures commercially without contacting me first.
- User Group Newsletter publishing is okay. Please send a copy of
- your newsletter to me at PO Box 10141, Torrance, CA 90505.
-
- All pictures are being uploaded in JPEG compressed format. Why? Because
- JPEG compression turns the original one-meg-plus IFF24 files into
- files one tenth their size or less while still maintaining 99% or more
- of the color space and detail information. With JPEG you can download a
- relatively small, often tiny file, and then decompress it on your own
- Amiga in various ways using various software and, depending on how
- good your display hardware is, see virtually the same 24-bit image I
- saw while creating these pictures on my Firecracker.
-
- JPEG compression also allows those of you who do not own any extended
- color boards or hardware to deal with the full range of color and
- detail while you convert the pictures into a "normal" Amiga mode.
- You get to start with all the data and resolve it down to a normal
- Amiga mode instead of having to start with a marginal image and try
- to make it "better" somehow, which is often impossible.
-
- I strongly URGE you, if you do not have a 24-bit display system,
- to convert these pictures into 16 color hi resolution overscan
- screens, either dithered color or 16 shades of gray. If you convert
- them to HAM you will lose half of the horizontal resolution of the
- images and the detailed areas, especially my carefully constructed
- titling with people's names, will be destoyed. I would rather you
- folks look at these pictures in hi-res 16 shades of gray than in
- more colorful HAM. But of course the best display possible will be
- one of the current crop of Analog RGB 24-bit display devices such
- as the Firecracker, GVP's IV24, Centaur's Opalvision, and etc. Loading
- them into DCTV is fairly o.k. except the small details develop that
- annoying chroma crawl due to the NTSC display.
-
- The subject matter of each picture is as follows:
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- WOC1 - upper left, Gina of ASDG ("ADPro", "Morph Plus", etc.) in their booth
- (contact pk-asdg@cup.portal.com)
- upper right, Mark & Kiki of Newtek ("Video Toaster", etc.)
- (contact mark_randall@cup.portal.com)
- lower left, Rick Unland of New Horizons ("ProWrite", etc.)
- lower right, Denny Atkin of Compute Magazine
- (contact dennya@cup.portal.com)
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- WOC2 - upper left, an Amiga 4000 open to show its innards
- upper right, Jay "Padre" Miner, Father of the Amiga in wheelchair
- (contact padre@cup.portal.com)
- lower left, Julie "Ladyhawke" Petersen, Classic Concepts (Fonts)
- (contact ladyhawke@cup.portal.com)
- lower right, a Workbench 3.0 preferences screen "color wheel"
-
- WOC3 - upper left, GVP's enormous booth
- upper right, Centaur's equally enormous booth
- lower left, Black Belt's ("Image Master", etc.) Ben Williams &
- Barry Chalmers
- (contact blackbelt@cup.portal.com)
- lower right, AVID/Video Toaster User's Jim Plant
- (contact avid@cup.portal.com)
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- WOC4 - upper left, Roy Tretheway of Premier Software (the guy who sells
- p/d softare on disks with real fancy labels)
- (contact roy_tretheway@cup.portal.com)
- upper right, a visitor in Virtual Reality Labs' booth
- (contact tim_finer@cup.portal.com)
- lower left, one of the many A600 stands in CBM's booth
- lower right, the Scala booth.
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- WOC5 - upper left, Dan Wolf PhD. of MegageM ("FractalPro", etc.)
- upper right, Steve Worley of Apex Publishing ("Understanding
- Imagine 2.0" and "Essence")
- (contact worley@cup.portal.com)
- lower left, Chris Henry of Hypermedia Concepts ("Fred Fish Disks
- on CD ROM")
- (contact chenry@cup.portal.com)
- lower right, Ben Fuller of Fuller Systems ("Project D")
- demoing an A4000
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