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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:
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)
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)
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.
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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