FALCON IMAGE UTILITIES SKWare One 03:01:1993 This is one of a series of archives of Falcon Image Utilities from SKWare One. If you have not downloaded those others listed here, you may find all (or most) of them useful and/or entertaining. These utility programs will display only on Falcon030. They will function on ST/STe/MegaSTe/TT030, but without any display: XGA__TGA.LZH Programs to convert XGA to TGA format and TGA to XGA, XGA and TGA viewer programs. ST/TT converters included. IFF2XIMG.LZH Converts Amiga 32-color (5-plane) IFF to 256-color XIMG. ST/TT version is included; display only on Falcon. SPEC2XGA.LZH Converts Spectrum (.SPU and .SPC) files to XGA TrueColor. An ST/TT version is included; display only on Falcon. These utility programs will run and/or display ONLY on Falcon030. They WILL NOT function on ST/STe/MegaSTe/TT030: RWL2XIMG.LZH Converts Seymor-Radix IMG_Scan raw data files to 256-color XIMG. Sample file included. Excellent image quality. CS__DEMO.LZH Falcon030 TrueColor demo of COLORSCAN II. Converts scanned IMG files to colors and greys. CSCANIMG.LZH Mono IMG file for conversion by CS__DEMO. SURATXGA.LZH Seurat TrueColor image in XGA format. RUNS ON ALL ATARI 680x0 PLATFORMS: BITCAMRA.LZH Enlarges, reduces and reproportions monochrome, 4-color, 16-color, 256-color, and TrueColor images with remarkable speed and accuracy. Loads GEM IMG, STTT IMG, XIMG, and XGA images. (This a demo version; save is disabled.) May be used as viewer for conversions from programs above; runs on everything Atari except 8-bits... Also of interest: IMFORMAT.LZH Proposed SKWare One IMG format extensions. MONITORS: These programs have been developed for use on RGB monitors when run on Falcon030. They have not been tested on VGA monitor systems and certain ones of them will definitely not function with VGA. BITCAMERA BITCAMERA enlarges, reduces, and re-proportions all raster images. BITCAMERA runs on all Ataris and in all Atari resolutions, including TrueColor video modes. Loads mono IMG files, 16-color STTT .IMG and (most) 16- and 256-color XIMG files. In TrueColor modes, it loads XGA files (see below). Use "Process Camera" Option under the Edit submenu to create new raster. Save is disabled in this demo. BITCAMERA must be started in that resolution that possesses the same number of planes as the image to be processed, but monochrome IMG files can be loaded and processed in all resolutions. Operation is extremely rapid, and in TrueColor and 256-color modes, the results maintain good image quality over a wide range of sizes. Even in 16-color mode, unaffected image quality is maintained over a +/-30% range. The BitCamera core function is included in SEURAT Version 2.8. A 256-color XIMG is in- cluded (created with RWL2XIMG.PRG). Many other files can be created with the other programs listed here. NOTE: XGA file "format" is informal (non-documented). It consists of nothing more than a TrueColor screensave. BITCAMERA loads six sizes of XGA. (There are eight TrueColor screen sizes, four with square pixels: 320x200, 384x240, 640x400, and 768x480; two with horizontal brickbat pixels: 320x400 and 384x480; two with vertical brickbat pixels: 640x200 and 768x240. The last type, with vertical pixels, is not supported in BitCamera as VGA monitors cannot display 80-column TrueColor raster.) Note: the Atari XGA filetype should not be confused with the IBM graphic standard with the same designation. The designation was adapted by Greg Kopchak for his Photo CD images from the Flight animation. Why not adopt the extension ".AGA" ( = "AtariGA") for images in the TrueColor raster word format? A header block is needed to allow for sizes other than screensave sizes to be utilized (See IMFORMAT.TXT). USE BITCAMERA: a) to convert images with horizontal brickbat pixels to square pixel format. Example: convert a slideshow TGA to XGA format, run BitCamera in TrueColor, 80-col, interlace ON, and resize to 384x240. b) to re-proportion images with distorted aspect ratios. Example: convert EAGLE.TGA or ICONIC5.TGA to XGA as described above, but re-size to 384x272 or 384x288 to correct the distortion. c) to convert square-pixel images (the vast majority of Atari existing images are "square") to the horizontal brickbat pixels re- quired for double-line mode on VGA monitors by reducing height to 50%. d) since the ST color monitor's supposedly "square" pixels are generally about 110/100 H/W aspect ratio, images rotated 90 degrees are consequently distorted, Correct with BitCamera. A 256-color XIMG created with the RWL2XIMG.PRG (above) is included in this archive. NOTE: SEURAT VERSION 2.8 Release Date: April 1, 1993 Runs in ST/STe resolutions on all Ataris: ST/MegaST/STe/MegaSTe/TT030/Falcon030-compatible. Supports the following file formats: (import and export) DEGAS: .PI1, .PI2, ,PI3, .PC1, .PC2, .PC3 TINY: .TNY, .TN1, .TN2, .TN3 .NEO (including TT Med Rez) DPaint .IFF (4-plane; output conversion to Amiga 5-plane) GEM .IMG (monochrome) STTT .IMG (4-color and 16-color) XIMG .IMG (4-color and 16-color) HyperPaint .IMG (4-color and 16-color) MacPaint .MAC (mono) PCPaint .PCX (monochrome bitmap and 16-color VGA-type) PrismPaint .PNT (up to 16-colors; all screen sizes, compressed/uncompressed) (export only): Aldus .TIFF (monochrome compressed and uncompressed, Intel and Motorola) Aldus .TIFF RGB 24-bit "true color" (Calamus SL compatible) Atari .XGA (output conversion of 16-color images) Targa16 and Targa24 .TGA (output conversion of 16-color images) Includes: * BitCamera: enlarges, reduces and re-proportions both B&W AND COLOR images. Fast, accurate process-camera quality re-sized image can be compared side-by-side with original. * New Clip and Page functions for both B&W AND COLOR: Rotate, Flip, Invert, Crop, Cut, Paste, Overlay, Copy using whole images of any size. These powerful functions allow you to do multiple horizontal and vertical image- merging that no merge program can. In-program crop of ragged scans. Cut'n'Paste any-size image. * SCANNER Support: Now SEURAT "handshakes" with Dr. Bob's ScanLite accessory to allow you to scan directly into SEURAT's image buffers with full in-program control. (Requires mono monitor; ScanLite not supplied with SEURAT.) * Now loads PageStream Fonts (in addition to System, Degas and GDOS fonts); these vector fonts can scaled horizontally and vertically to any size and filled with hundreds of interior fill styles and colors. * SEURAT is the ONLY Atari program that allows the creation of any-sized color images, the ONLY Atari program with eight virtual- screen buffers for multiple-image operations, the ONLY Atari program that offers you the same powerful functions for COLOR IMAGES that you expect to find only in top monochrome programs (and, of course, we do it in mono, too)! * SEURAT has been and will remain the most full-featured Atari Art program with more than 400 functions and commands: a super-fast multi-ratio Zoom; built-in print drivers for DeskJet and 9-pins plus a separate GDOS printing program with DeskTop Publishing power; powerful image-conversion routines; spline-curve and Bezier-curve drawing tools; variable mouse-speed; anti-alias; palette editor with special effects; 11 block shapers & twisters to modify image blocks; 92 color & mono fill patterns; 42 brushes including user-defined multi-colored; 4 graphic write modes & 21 block & mask write modes; circle, ellipse & filled disc in free, repeat & concentric modes; round- & square- cornered rectangles & solids; rays; airbrush; clear-circle & clear- box; vertical, horizontal & free lines; polylines & polygons in line- edge or spline-curve; area & seed fill; user-set clipping; color remap; mirror; screen shift, flip, invert & rotate; fill editor; brush editor; line editor; disk utilities like Format and in_program File Directory; and a hundred or so other features & tools that there's no room to mention here... * EVERY purchaser of SEURAT Version 2.8 is guaranteed a free upgrade to SEURAT Version 3.0, which will run in all resolutions and video modes on all Atari's, including the Falcon's 256-color and TrueColor modes. (Just as during April, 1993, all SEURAT purchasers of versions higher than 2.21 will be receiving their free upgrades to Version 2.8.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: SEURAT VERSION 2.80 Price: $59.95! Includes: Three-disk set, with all-new 20,000-word User's Manual and 100's of application files (fonts, etc.) and utility programs: PageStream-to_GDOS font converter, GDOS print program, dither editor, BitCamera, XPORTIMG System requirements: minimum 1-Meg ST with doublesided drive; 2-1/2-Meg+ for optimum operational use. Payment: Check, money order; MasterCard/VISA accepted Send check, money order, or credit card info to: SKWare One P. O. Box 277 Bunker Hill, Illinois 62014 USA Shipping: SKWare One pays postage on all USA AND CANADIAN orders. For overseas orders (not on North American continent), include an additional $3.00 for surface mail or $5.00 for air mail delivery. (All prices are in US dollars.) Order Yours Today! 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