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17 Bit Software That Bit Better Than The Rest!! PO Box 97, Wakefield WEI 1XX, England. © 0924 366982 The UK's Largest Amiga Only PD User Group, over 1,000 Top Quality Public Domain Disks and over 16,500 members in our friendly club!! PACK ATTACK!! ALL These packs give lifetime memberships to 17-BIT. And open up a whole new world in Public Domain. CLASSICAL MUSIC PACK Three superb music disks, and a catalogue. Brilliant value at only 1 . MUSIC CREATION PACK 6 5 music disks to help you get . the best out of your AMIGA sound system. Included 5disks are 740 MED V2.01. 440 SOUNDTRACKER RIPPERS 0 AND PLAY ROUTINES. 482 GAMES MUSIC CREATOR. 478 SOUND MON. AND DISK 479 SAMPLED INSTRUMENTS FOR ALL THE ABOVE DISKS. SUPERB VALUE AT ONLY £7.99 QS+CD The ever popular QS+CD pack is a superb way to get into public domain. Featuring great utilities, great music and great games. If you're new to the AMIGA this is the pack!!! ONLY .16-50 ASTRONOMY PACK Only £5.00 A 3 Disk pack including the latest catalogue. and 2 superb astronomy disks. 173 AM/GAZER 223 STAR CHART A fine astronomy program. MEGA DOS Mega Dos is an AM1GADOS Manual-on-disk designed to be an easy to use self help reference and tutorial for understanding the CU and workbench. MEGA DOS IS NOT PD AND IS ONLY AVAILABLE WE ALSO STOCK FISH-1 TO 360 AMICUS-1 TO 26 AMIGAN-I TO 23 T-BAG-I TO 42 All these including the whole range of PD in our library are only f2.00 EACH FROM I7-BIT SOFTWARE. Amazing value at only £6.95 17-BIT SOFTWARE ARE OPEN From 9.00am to 8.00pm Mon to Friday and 9.00am to 5.30pm on Saturdays. We take all major credit card orders over the phone. TEL: 0924 .366982 Postal orders and cheques should be made payable to 17-bit software. 10 disks are flti(x) or any one disk C.2.(0) DON'T DELAY ORDER A PACK TODAY!!! ESSENTIAL PD FROM OUR LATEST DISKS 747 - Sculpt 3D Fighter animation by John Smith 746 - Excellent commercial quality Pt) shoot em up!! 745 - DEXION Freddy demo, very original 743 - MIRAGE Prime 90 mega demo (Lovely font) 741 - Intro's 47, more specially compiled demo's 740 - Nic Cusworths MAD MAD MAD MAD mix!!! 736 Agatron star trek slide show (very nice) 735 - Agairon animations disk no 34 734 - Agatron animations disk no 33 733 - SCOOPEX beast music demo (absolutely brill!!) 731 - Sidney and Friends utility disk (great utils) 730 - Bealle mania. 34 SONIX beatles tracks (great) 728 - Two disk Laurel and Hardy disk as featured 729. In COMMODORE USER (great fun) 727 - Gary Tower ray traced slide show (only available from 17-BIT SOFTWARE 726 - intro's 46 More lovely demo's to impress 724 - intro's 45 Do these demo's ever run out? NO! 723 - intro's 44 More specially compiled graphics 722 - AMAZE music disk with 56 tunes in all, and a long play feature. (THIS IS TRULY AMAZING.) 721 -DISORDER Mega demo. great music and graphics 719 - SYNTHIA 2 Music util demo (GREAT FUN) 718 - Fractal slideshow. (Yummy graphics) 717 CASP, music disk (the guy responsible for the batdance remix in our library. 4 more super tunes 714 - RED SECTOR Martin Galway music disk 710 - BUDBRAIN DEMO (outrageously funny disk 687 - CRIONICS MEGA DEMO, featuring the best anan. I've ever seen (of madonna walking). GREAT 681 - WARFALCONS MEGA DEMO (stunning) - FRACTAL FLIGHT demo 685 - KEFRENS music juke box (don't miss this one) 688 - Horror slide show (SPOOKY!!!!) 696 - DEPI-X7HE MODE music disk (GREAT STUFF) ZYDEC RAM EXPANSION Upgrade your Amiga 500 to I Meg, of Memory with the Zydec 5I2K expansion. Fitting neatly into your Amiga this compact unit comes complete with a One year guarantee and an on off switch. ONLY E.32.95II Or £39.95 with special 5 disk 1 Meg PD pack!!! ti rE CI cx ti
!!) I! CS 1 I you digitise images in colour to non-computing F friends, you may have stared y at a few disbelieving faces. o "What", they say, "you hold up pieces u of coloured plastic in front of the h camera? Are you serious?" a "Erm....yes", you say, "and it works really v well!" e But it's too late. You have lost their respect. e No longer are you a computing v genius, you have become a crank, e a mad professor, a nutter in an anorak. r If you are afraid of this happening to d you then rest easy: Modem technology has e come to your rescue. In actual fact, the s solution was always there, it was just c that it was too expensive to consider. r But first things first, i As we have said on many occasions, to b grab a picture in colour you must grab e the red, green and blue portions of d the image separately. Once the computer h knows the amount of each primary o colour in each picture, it knows w just the amount of colour to add to each pixel in the display. Result: A full colour image. The sensible way to split the image into its RGB components is to use some electronics. What is needed is a Black Box with a video signal bunged in at one end, a switch on the top to choose the colour, and a separated signal out the other. : i Although mentioned in passing as t,part of last month's digitising 'spectacular, we reckon it deserves a s !bit more recognition. Frankly, a bsplitter this cheap is something that 1 AviII l This cause is what several VIDI people RGB does. to perform And a adouble-take anyway. c Assuming you have the MI Frame , grabber, k colour digitising is a fully 1 111It t u o o . In Decodct Circuit /1' VW! RGB block diagram Digital lc switcheN 1 • Sick of pieces of coloured plastic? Yearning for a hi-tech video solution? Rombo could have just what you're looking for, as John Kennedy discovers automatic process. Just hit a key, and the three images are grabbed, processed and displayed in a few seconds. With decent lighting and a cheap camcorder the results are pretty darn good. Marginally better than with coloured plastic, but without all the hassle. With any other digitiser - frame grabbing or not - you must use the splitter in manual mode. A multicoloured LED on top of the box indicates which colour is currently being let through. If it's white, then no colours are being filtered out - the image is the untouched original. A press on the button and the LED turns i!erl. Now only the red component is being let through. Another press and the LED turns green. One more press and it's yellow. Yellow? Well, it would be blue but blue LEDs are a bit tricky to get hold of. Rest assured that the video signal component is totally blue. Expansion-minded folk will be interested in the special "feature • SHORTIES • connector", As well as various control signals and power lines, there is full support for the S-VHS (or "super VHS" - an improved quality video standard) system. This should ensure some degree of future-proofing VIDI RGB. Furthermore, there are some things which simply can't be done without a video splitter. For example, the new Still Video machines are very exciting, but at the moment getting the image on to an Amiga is a bit tricky. With a splitter it is possible to digitise the image in colour at a resolution only limited by your grabbing hardware. The same goes for grabbing a video taped image. in colour. Unless you can electronically split the signal, you're stuck with a mono image. If you need a splitter for a specific purpose, then you can't go wrong VIDI RGB. Even if you think you would like a splitter, just to do away with the coloured plastic, you would still be making a wise move. REPORT CARD V1D1RGB Rambo Productions Tel: 0506 414631 E69.95 Ittii I 1 IIIIITE EASE OF USE Simply press a button to choose the image colour. When using VIM, even this arduous task is removed. VALUE0111111111111 Video splitters are rare. Affordable ones rarer still. OVERALL B O % A useful - sometimes essential - addition to your digitising setup, at a price which isn't prohibitive.
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