> > *grins* well... I'm writing lots of SAM file conversion utils... > > GIF's take **HOURS** to decode though, which is a pain, and I've got > > to finish my new DOS before I do any more, so that I can serially > > access the files I want to with ease and precision. > > In about 9 1/2 weeks time, I can do some conversions to BMP for you, if > they're any use by then...
Maybe... I'm using the PC's here to do it tho', so unless you're converting JPEGs... > The Amiga can be a tad slow on GIFs as well, tho it's converting from chunky > format to planar, so that kind of explains some of the slowness. ADPro is > much quicker tho. Mmmm... still doesn't explain the slowness of the SAM. > > Indeed. The air was filled with language thick and ripe :) > Thats sounds almost poetic, tho I imagine it didn't at the time... Nope -- it didn't!! BTW: Poetry 'cos I'm writing a novel... 80 pages and still going strong :) > > > > so I'm off to Maplin's in a mo' to buy a new one... if we can't get > > > > one... Well.... we'll have to build it out of discrete components -- > > > > giving 8x256 colour look up tables (selectable using a single OUT to > > > > switch between them), and it'll be 24-bit... still... could be worse. > > > > > > I don't envy you. Yes it could be worse, I suppose, you could have some > > > bits > > > left over once you've finished putting it all together :) > > > > *grins* DAMN! They didn't have any!!! So now I've got 2x8bit DACs, and we have to build the blue one out of resistors :( :( :( > > > > Wellllll..... it's because the blue section of light is the one we > > > > don't see that well... the eye responds in this fraction: > > > > > > > > 0.17 Blue > > > > 0.53 Green > > > > 0.40 Red -- or something like that.. > > > > > > Wow. Did you learn that in your physics course? > > > > Believe it or not, but no -- it's in TV technical manuals and books > > on physiology and eye receptiveness etc etc... Strange really. So I > > just kind of picked it up :) > > Hmm. I never read the instructions on my telly, and I don't think I've ever > seen a TV tech manual, but fair enough. *grins* It's in there... as well as lots of other fun things like resolving powers of the eye etc -- depends on the technical manual though... > > **** OTHER PEOPLE PLEASE JOIN IN!!! **** > > > > I think this may be a lost cause... Me too. Pass the embalming fluid, garcon. > Is _anybody_ interested in discussing new SAM hardware? > I may well end up spending a big chunk of my grant (I'm a poor, starving > student) on the Midget, and I'd like to believe other people are actually > interested. Yup... maybe they're all hiding and hoping we'll go away? :) Si +------------------INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "You know... you can tell someone's vain when they quote themselves | | in their own .sig file..." -- Simon Cooke | +--------------------JANET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
