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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: APPLEFEST IMPRESSIONS
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.064548.10626@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 06:45:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.030212.11445@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>In article <1990Dec18.015350.9171@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas) writes:
>>
>>  There was a frame grabber for the Apple II that would digitize 256 * 256
>>with lots o gray scale or color at 60 fps.  I'll see if I can dig up the
>>article about it.
>>
>
>	There aren't 256 shades of grey, only 16.  256 colors is
>feasible though, and something untapped by developers.
>
>
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  Correct, except this card wasn't dependant on Apple II graphics.  That's
how it would work on a II+ or //e.  It would display the picture using its
own graphics modes{.

Well, it took me about an hour but I found the article.  The product 
is/was called Imageworks II.  

It captures a frame in 1/60 sec and has a resolution of 256 * 256 with 
256 shades of gray.  

Also, apparently, there is a color upgrade for the frame grabber to allow
256 colors and still the 60 fps capability.

The article is in the July 1989 Issue of Incider.


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