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- HamLab 1.0 DEMO 17 July 1990
- (c) Copyright 1990 J. E. Hanway
-
- HamLab is an interactive program which converts images from foreign file
- formats to Amiga HAM mode pictures. The HAM pictures can be displayed
- (and panned on a "virtual screen" if necessary) and saved in IFF format.
-
- Translation filters are provided for GIF, Atari ST Spectrum 512, and MTV
- ray tracer files. New filters can be added simply by adding a line to a
- configuration file.
-
- HamLab uses 24-bit RGB for nearly all intermediate calculations, and has a
- boustrophedonic Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion (whew!) option which
- significantly improves the quality of some images. In my opinion, it
- produces quality pictures that equal or exceed the best that I've seen,
- including ones made by HamSharp and ASDG's The Art Department. In many cases,
- I think that the results look as good as or better than SHAM and Dynamic
- HAM files, without the disadvantages of either.
-
- Requires ARP 1.3. Runs under 1.3 (and 2.0 beta 5). For use in tight
- memory situations, the PIPE: device (included with AmigaDOS 1.3) is
- recommended.
-
- For the best response time, it helps to have a lot of memory and/or a hard
- disk, but HamLab has configurable options which make it usable on small
- systems, too.
-
- *** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
-
- This archive is a demo version. Unlike some demos, I wanted this one to
- be useful. The only "crippled" feature is that images larger than 512
- pixels wide or tall will be cropped. Otherwise, all features including
- save are fully implemented.
-
- HamLab is the product of my off-and-on hacking with HAM mode since late
- 1985. I hope that you find the demo useful, even with its limitation.
-
- For a disk with the complete version of HamLab, the latest set of input
- filters, and example filter source code, send $15.00 to:
-
- J. Edward Hanway
- 149 Scotch Pine Dr.
- Rochester, NY 14616-1668
-