Short: Pictures from World Of Commodore show Architecture: generic PICTURES FROM WORLD OF COMMODORE SHOW, PASADENA, CA. SEPT. 11-13, 1992 by Harv Laser (harv@cup.portal.com) All pictures are JPEG 24bit color 768x482 full overscan These files contain 4-up (four pictures on each screen) digitized pictures taken at the show by Harv Laser using a Canon RC-250 "Xapshot" still video camera. The pictures were grabbed from the camera and the montages created with DCTV by Digital Creations. Each picture was saved out of DCTV in IFF24 format and then further manipulated using Art Dept. Professional by ASDG and Light24, the paint program included with the Firecracker 24 bit display card by Impulse. All photos are Copyright 1992, Harv Laser, all rights reserved. The pictures may be freely distributed providing you don't edit them in any way. Email me with any comments. Please don't publish these pictures commercially without contacting me first. User Group Newsletter publishing is okay. Please send a copy of your newsletter to me at PO Box 10141, Torrance, CA 90505. All pictures are being uploaded in JPEG compressed format. Why? Because JPEG compression turns the original one-meg-plus IFF24 files into files one tenth their size or less while still maintaining 99% or more of the color space and detail information. With JPEG you can download a relatively small, often tiny file, and then decompress it on your own Amiga in various ways using various software and, depending on how good your display hardware is, see virtually the same 24-bit image I saw while creating these pictures on my Firecracker. JPEG compression also allows those of you who do not own any extended color boards or hardware to deal with the full range of color and detail while you convert the pictures into a "normal" Amiga mode. You get to start with all the data and resolve it down to a normal Amiga mode instead of having to start with a marginal image and try to make it "better" somehow, which is often impossible. I strongly URGE you, if you do not have a 24-bit display system, to convert these pictures into 16 color hi resolution overscan screens, either dithered color or 16 shades of gray. If you convert them to HAM you will lose half of the horizontal resolution of the images and the detailed areas, especially my carefully constructed titling with people's names, will be destoyed. I would rather you folks look at these pictures in hi-res 16 shades of gray than in more colorful HAM. But of course the best display possible will be one of the current crop of Analog RGB 24-bit display devices such as the Firecracker, GVP's IV24, Centaur's Opalvision, and etc. Loading them into DCTV is fairly o.k. except the small details develop that annoying chroma crawl due to the NTSC display. The subject matter of each picture is as follows: WOC1 - upper left, Gina of ASDG ("ADPro", "Morph Plus", etc.) in their booth (contact pk-asdg@cup.portal.com) upper right, Mark & Kiki of Newtek ("Video Toaster", etc.) (contact mark_randall@cup.portal.com) lower left, Rick Unland of New Horizons ("ProWrite", etc.) lower right, Denny Atkin of Compute Magazine (contact dennya@cup.portal.com) WOC2 - upper left, an Amiga 4000 open to show its innards upper right, Jay "Padre" Miner, Father of the Amiga in wheelchair (contact padre@cup.portal.com) lower left, Julie "Ladyhawke" Petersen, Classic Concepts (Fonts) (contact ladyhawke@cup.portal.com) lower right, a Workbench 3.0 preferences screen "color wheel" WOC3 - upper left, GVP's enormous booth upper right, Centaur's equally enormous booth lower left, Black Belt's ("Image Master", etc.) Ben Williams & Barry Chalmers (contact blackbelt@cup.portal.com) lower right, AVID/Video Toaster User's Jim Plant (contact avid@cup.portal.com) WOC4 - upper left, Roy Tretheway of Premier Software (the guy who sells p/d softare on disks with real fancy labels) (contact roy_tretheway@cup.portal.com) upper right, a visitor in Virtual Reality Labs' booth (contact tim_finer@cup.portal.com) lower left, one of the many A600 stands in CBM's booth lower right, the Scala booth. WOC5 - upper left, Dan Wolf PhD. of MegageM ("FractalPro", etc.) upper right, Steve Worley of Apex Publishing ("Understanding Imagine 2.0" and "Essence") (contact worley@cup.portal.com) lower left, Chris Henry of Hypermedia Concepts ("Fred Fish Disks on CD ROM") (contact chenry@cup.portal.com) lower right, Ben Fuller of Fuller Systems ("Project D") demoing an A4000 -end of text- send .send .ok /ok