Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    Using John's instructions, this past weekend I was able to put together
    my very own generic Digi-Droid.  
    
    Many thanks John, it works great and I can highly recommend this
    project to anyone with a Digi-View for minimum effort digitizing.
    
    BTW: I have just picked up an A2000 and I was wondering if anyone
    knows what is needed to make the Digi-View work with the 2000. 
    I tried putting together a male-male pass-through cable but all
    I got was 'no video signal present'.  So I'm looking for suggestions
    on what to try, other than buying the Newtek adaptor (unless absolutly
    necessary).
    
    BTW2: It would seem that the color separator from Newtek and Demo
    Reel #2 won't be available until the new year.
    
    
    				thanks
    
    					wayne oakley
    

< Note 1746.1 by CGOU01::OAKLEY "What am I doing here..." >

I just went through what you described. I tried to make a straight through male-
to-male in both flavors (pin 1 to pin 1 and pin 1 to pin 13) but neither worked.
I looked inside the "gender changer" made by NewTek and indeed, there are a 
number of components inside, including resistors, caps, an inductor and a mini-
dip (probably a level shifter), as well as some crossed over wires. I could 
probably copy the circuit but for about $20 I'll opt for buying one.

Regarding the Digi Droid, I called up Barbizon Light in Woburn and they sent me
a bunch of sample swatch books of colored gels/filters used in stage production 
and photo work. One of the sets of samples was from a company in England called
Lee. It had many clean (non-wavy) colored filter samples, some of which worked 
nicely as a substitute for the color wheel from DigiView. They can be had in 
(roughly) 20" by 24" sheets for about $4 - $5 a piece. At least that's the price
they quoted me on the phone.

One question I have regarding DigiView. Is there any way I can specify (in B&W 
for example) that the colors used in the palette are in a sequential order of 
increasing brightness rather than in a checkerboard pattern. The reason I ask is
that I would like to be able to use the "spread" feature of D-Paint II to re-
assign colors to those generated by DigiView. 

Dave

    Deluxe PhotoLab has a module called Colors.  It allows you to modify
    pictures.  Files are easily re-tinted, regardless of how the palette
    is set up.  Bringing a picture into Digi-Paint and retouching it
    would do the same thing.  The only problem with that is that it
    will then become a HAM mode picture.

    Thanks for the information on the gender bender from Newtek, guess
    I'll have to break down and do it the easy way.
    
    As for sorting colors, I don't beleive that can be done in DigiView
    (unless you wanted to remap the palette yourself) but Pixmate has
    just that function available and allows you the choice of sort in
    increasing or decreasing intensity.
    
    		ttnf
    
    		wayne
    

                           -< Home Built Digi-Driod >-

>    I have put together construction notes to build a home built
>    Digi-Droid for Digi-View.  Total cost is about $15 to $20 and takes
>    about 1 to 2 hours to complete.
>    
>    The .doc file is in WINNER::DISK$USER_1:[JBERNARD.AMIGA]AUTOCOLOR.DOC
    
John,

I can't seem to get access to the above file. Is it still in existance?

Dave

< Note 1746.0 by WINNER::JBERNARD "John Bernard YWO/292-2591" >
                           -< Home Built Digi-Driod >-

<    The .doc file is in WINNER::DISK$USER_1:[JBERNARD.AMIGA]AUTOCOLOR.DOC
    
<    There are also two .arc files that contain the documentation as
<    well as construction photos in HAM mode.  Theae are in the same
<    directory and named  AUTOCOLOR1.arc and AUTOCOLOR2.arc.
    
The above files have been moved to:

	 fsdev1::disk$user1:[jbernard.amiga]etc.

    This is like, really freaky.  I JUST tried to grab the files at
    the old location, and found that I couldn't.  I came back to check
    the notes file again, and found that 10 minutes before I checked
    for the files, my question as to where they went had been answered.
    Too heavy!
    
     - Chris
    

John, is this still around anywhere?


fsdev1::disk$user1:[jbernard.amiga]AUTOCOLOR.DOC

John

    You can find the following on CRISTA""::AMIGA:

                                AUTOCOLOR.DOC
                                AUTOCOLOR1.ARC
                                AUTOCOLOR2.ARC

Thanks!