🚀 go-pugleaf

  I am submitting this message since this is a service that most atari
owners may be interested in and not be aware of.


  There is a company that will digitize photo's for atari owners.

   By digitize, I mean they will scan in the photo's so that you
can see them on your TV screen.

   For $20.00 they digitize two photo's and send them back along
with a floppy disk. The floppy disk contains a fairly nice
paint program (copyrighted but not copy protected), a basic
program to use as an example for loading the pictures, and the
digitized pictures. A few example pictures are also included on the
disk. The digitized pictures come out in black & white (16 gray scales)
(They can digitize color pictures but they come out in b&w).

  Additional pictures are digitized for $6.00 each. The pictures
are digitized in Graphics 9 so make sure you have a GTIA chip before
sending them any money. The results are fairly impressive, digitized
faces come out real good.

  If you send them "high detail" type pictures (such as text, etc) and
a note, you can get it digitized in Graphics 8 but the number of gray
scales is very limited in Graphics 8 so black-white pictures are best
(company logo's, etc). Also, the paint program only runs in Graphics 9,
10 & 11 so any pictures done in Graphics 8 cannot be manipulated with
the paint program.

  The disk auto boots and is menu driven so using the software is easy.
The paint program is very extensive and includes commands such as
line, rectangle, circle (any size), flood (floods an arbitrary closed
polygon), color mix (for graphics 10), pick, put, load and save.

There address is:

	       Computer Techniques
	       329 North Harvard Street
	       Allston Mass. 02139