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In article <521@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
>	[request for demos to show off the Mac-II in the following areas]
>	2. Programs showing off grayscales/colors.  Something dynamic (ie.
>	   rotating sphere) would be nice.

I find it interesting that 6 months after the public unveiling of the 
machine that there are apparently STILL no demos available to dealers.
Everytime I see my local dealer I ask her if Apple has released any
dealer demos and the answer is invariably no.  There don't seem to be very
many user written demos available in the public domain either.  By contrast,
six months after the Commodore Amiga hit the streets there were lots
of interesting demos, and even at the time of release virtually every
dealer got several disks full of demos from Commodore.

But, back to your question.  I have been working with the author of a
GIF reader program for the Mac-II and we have had a significant amount of
success at displaying both hand drawn artwork and digitized images from
the Amiga on the Mac-II.  The Jim Sach's Amiga artwork in particular is
stunning, as are many of the Digiview pictures.  Digiview is an Amiga
product that digitizes with a resolution of 640 by 400 pixels, with
21 bits of color per pixel (7 bit each of red, green, and blue).  A
special purpose converter program maps the 2 million colors into a
"best fit" 256, for display by the GIF reader.

At some point, probably reasonably soon, the programs and sample images
should be publicly available.  The first release will probably be
on Compuserve, but should trickle out to other sources soon after.

>	4. Something to show off the improved sound chip.

Sound chip?  You mean this thing has a new sound chip :-)
(See comments above re demos...)

-Fred
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