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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digi-View
Message-ID: <636@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:13:35 GMT
References: <607@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <607@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>Would anyone happen to have a description of the format digiview saves
>it's pictures in?  I'd like to make three primary color scans, each at
>the 32 level setting, then combine them into an image on a color workstation
>display using ALL of the information (15bits, 5 per color).

Once you have digitized an image, press the F2 key and digiview will save
the image in a "dump file", 3 bytes per pixel (one each for RGB), 7
significant bits per byte (LSB undefined).  It dumps the entire red
plane, then the green plane, and then the blue plane.  There are an
additional three 32-bit words tacked on to the end of the file that
you can ignore.

>Also, has anyone tried to get a Digiview to work on non-Amiga computers?
>I suspect it would not be that hard if the computer happened to have a
>PC compatable parallel port or something like it.

I have successfully created RGB dump on the Amiga, transfered them to
a Mac-II, and run some appropriate software magic on the Mac-II end
to turn them into displayable 256 color pics.  I did not write the Mac-II
software, but I worked closely with the author while it was developed
last year.  As far as actually running Digiview on a non-Amiga
computer, I don't know of anyone that has done this.  By the way,
my opinion, and the opinion of everyone that I have shown the pictures to,
is that the pictures on the Mac-II look better in 256 colors than the
same pictures on the Amiga in 4096 color HAM mode.  I can't wait to
see the same pictures on the Mac-II in 24-bit color...

-Fred
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