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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "Insert Workbench" screen -> GIF or raster
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Date: 9 Oct 89 02:50:16 GMT
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In article <4473@udccvax1.acs.udel.edu>, don@vax1.acs.udel.edu, (Donald R.
Lloyd) writes:
>     Is there a way to capture "the hand" as an IFF file?  I'd like to
>convert it to a raster file so I can have my .logout on the suns here
>at school display it whenever I sign off the system.
>     Is there a way to do this?  If anybody can do so, could you please
>let me know how, or compress the picture & mail it to me?
>
>      Before I get flamed for it....would this be legal?
Hook the video from your Amiga at bootup to the Digiview Gold that your
friend has (he *has* a digitizer, right? :-).  Wave your hands in front of
your monitor and the Digiview hardware, utter the magic words, and in
a puff of *magical blue smoke*, you will get an IFF of the "Insert Workbench"
prompt.  Conversion to GIF or raster is left as an exercise for the apprentice
wizard...

As for legality, talk to the Commodore Amiga lawyer peoples, but if you've read
the Workbench 1.3.2 update distribution legalese, you may want to just
wait till no one's looking and steal the picture!  :-) ;-)

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