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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 586.1 | VIDI on ST User Disc | OPG::CHRIS | Capacity! What Capacity ? | Mon Sep 04 1989 12:31 | 5 |
| In the lastest issue of Atari User the disc supplied has the VIDI
software with several example pictures.
Chris
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| 586.2 | ZZ ROUGH not equal to VIDI ST | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Mon Sep 04 1989 15:55 | 32 |
| Hello Chris,
The Vidi software you mention is the digitizing software. This captures
a series of pictures in monochrome, not neccessarily black and white.
(There is a "pallette" control with the vidi software to enable you to
set a Hue or cast to the recorded image.
What I am refering to is the ADDITIONAL program one can buy from ROMBO
if one has the VIDI unit. ZZ ROUGH is a completely separate coloring
program. However Rombo only have a licence to distribute as part of a
VIDI sale !!.
Changing subjects slightly, what do people think of the "Freeby"
software given away with the magazines nowadays. I thought the two
disks supplied with the ST User were quite poor, especially after their
advertising stated workable programs, they were all demos.
The only halfway decent program was the disk flipper utility. (For
those who havnt seen it this is what it does). The disk supplied with
the magazine is a DOUBLE sided disk with programs on each side. BUT
recorded specially as two distinct sides. For
those customers with a single sided disk drive, they can ONLY read all the
programs on side 1 with no problems. For those customers with a double
sided disk drive, they can read the programs on side 1 and when they
want to read the other programs, they run flipper. This transposes all
the data on side 1 with that on side two. The programs which were on
the second side are now on the first, and can be accessed in the normal
way. Cute HUH?
TTFN
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| 586.3 | Pedantic | IOSG::HAYESJ | | Wed Sep 13 1989 07:26 | 5 |
| If you've got a double sided drive, why would you want to run a program
to access the second side? It sounds like the sign whose only message
reads 'Do Not Throw Stones at This Notice'!
J.O.H.N
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| 586.4 | TWO SINGLE SIDES ON A DOUBLE SIDED DISK | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Thu Sep 14 1989 04:27 | 19 |
| Hi john,
You miss the point.
The magazine gives away a disk with APPROX 720 K of freebies on it.
written as separate single sided data, on both sides of the disk.
Those Punters with ST's with single sided DRIVES get to see 360 K of
the freebies. (off one side only)
Those punters with a DOUBLE SIDED drive can access the first side,
and when they have done with that side can "FLIP" the data and access
the other side.
Each side has been written as tho it was a single sided disk, the
normal way of writng a double sided is track to track on each side, so a
single sided drive CANNOT read a normal double sided disk.
Get it now ??
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| 586.5 | Next time I keep my mouth shut | IOSG::HAYESJ | | Thu Sep 14 1989 07:05 | 3 |
| I've got it now, thanks. Excuse my ignorance.
J.O.H.N
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