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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The LIVE Digitizer from A-Squared...
Message-ID: <3115@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 22:05:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3115
Posted: Fri May 22 22:05:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 19:13:12 EDT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Summary: >> THE WAIT IS OVER! <<


	Before I start, here's a copy of a sheet that was included with the
Amiga press kit at the 1985 SIGGRAPH show where the Amiga was introduced:

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				Amiga Software

Developer:  A-Squared Systems Group

Address:  7200 Sayre Drive, Oakland, CA  94611
	[Current address is:  10 Skyway Lane, Oakland, CA  94619]

Name of Program:  The Amiga Eye  [Now called "LIVE".  Ed.]

Publisher:  Amiga

Program Type:  Color Video Digitizer

Application:  Digitizer of monochrome or color images.

Description:	This software package comes with a digitizer "frame
		grabber" device that plugs into the Amiga.  After capturing
		an image, it allows the user to vary hue, saturation, and
		luminance as well as brightness over the computer's range
		of 4000 plus colors.  User can record up to one second of
		imaging and replay the recreated images in "instant
		replay," slow motion, stop action or high speed modes.

Special Features:  Interfaces with other paint programs and is compatible
		   with any NTSC device.

Availability:  Upon Amiga introduction

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	Ladies and gentleman, Arthur Abrahams of A-Squared has been waiting
a year and a half to make the following announcement, and did so with great
glee at last night's BADGE meeting:

       ----====####>>>>  TO ORDER THE LIVE DIGITIZER!  <<<<####====----

				    Call:
	(inside California)			(everywhere else)
	1-800-626-9541  ext. 1156		1-800-452-4445  ext. 1156

	Do *NOT* call these numbers until after May 29 (1987), as they
won't be active until then.

	And now for the second nuclear bombshell:

	Price:	---===>>>  $295.00  <<<===---


	How did this miracle come about?  According to Arthur, A-Squared,
with the help of -=RJ Mical=-, *bought back the rights* to manufacture and
distribute LIVE from Commodore.  A-Squared now has rights to distribute
LIVE for the Amiga 1000 (suggesting that Commodore may still retain the
rights to the 2000 version, if there ever is one).

	More information:  LIVE is a SOTS (Slap On The Side) expansion box.
It does not pass the bus.  LIVE software takes over the entire machine (no
flames on this; it's impossible for it to be otherwise and be cheap).  LIVE
works with Genlock, and will do cheap chroma-keying with its help.
Information on how the hardware works and how to program it will be
published and readily available.  PD software to utilize the LIVE box and
to post-process LIVE images is encouraged.

	For those of you with expansion cages, there MAY or MAY NOT be a
Zorro-I version of LIVE in the works.  If enough of you can convince
A-Squared that there's a market for it, they may be convinced to go to the
trouble of cooking up a Zorro-I version.  (I can hear Perry dialing already
:-) )

	SO!  Go out and buy one.  Arthur deserves fame and fortune.  He's
already got fame, let's see if we can help with the fortune.  Buy two!
They're small, and they're cheap.

	(Sorry about the commercial nature of this, but I had given up on
LIVE a long time ago, and I'm sure you did, too.  But it finally made it!)

	The author believes the above information to be true and correct.
If this is not the case, please forgive him, and post a correction.  Thank
you.

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