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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
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Subject: Re: HAM-E
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Date: 10 Feb 91 10:21:33 GMT
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In article <1991Feb9.180147.12797@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Feb9.134325.6640@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>>
>>I also have the HAM-E, and have finally started using it after buying
>>the power supply not included to Europe.
>>
>>It works OK, though I have only converted some 256 colour GIF's to
>>HAM-E format yet. When I have time, i will scan in some images with
>>DigiView and convert them to HAM-E HAM.
>>
>>It is (almost) the only cheap solution for PAL users, and it works
>>with most 'show' utilities, since it is a normal highres screen. I would
>>like a -HE swith to Mostra however, since you now loose Mostra's
>>ability to scroll around in a picture.
>>
>	The big thing about it isn't the 256 color mode (as far
>as I'm concerned) but the HAM-E mode. I'll upload some of these
>pictures to an FTP site: I dl-ed them from the BBS BBS, but I
>don't imagine you want to waste your time with that expensive a
>phone call!
>

Yes, it's about the same difference between the 256 colour mode and HAM-E,
as between Halfbrite and normal HAM, only the 256 colour mode starts out
at a level higher than normal HAM. I've seen some very good pictures,
probably scanned in with a Sharp or similar flat-bed scanner. I scanned
in an old picture of my daughter, and it was fairly good (the problems
were mostly glare from the lamps on the photo). Some 'image processing'
need to be done, though. I've not concluded acactly what can be done
with the hame renderer.

I have some problems with the paint program. If I have a 256 colour
picture that is larger than the screen, and I want to cut a screen-size
part out, I mark this area and cut it out as a brush. I've tried saving
the brush, exiting the program, reading in the brush... but only made
it to (sort of) work once. And I don't have a clue what I made different
that time!

Maybe I need an update of the program, I will contact Black Belt and
ask them for an upgrade and source code - instead of the power supply
I never got.

>>Tommy Petersson
>
>
>	-- Ethan
>
>
>Q:	What's the definition of a Quayle?
>
>A:	Two right wings and no backbone.