Re: Wondering About Apple II video digitizing

[campbelb@agcs.com (Brian Campbell)]

In article <5kq86r$20q4@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
>lockwood@ecs.csun.edu (James Lockwood) wrote:
>>Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
>>[in response to my stating that the Vision cards (AST, Visionary,
>>etc.) generate raw data that is stored as a true color image]
>>>     That is _not_ TrueColor, in fact it is not even HiColor. Images that
>>> qualify as either hold 24-bit or 16-bit color information. I suppose you
>>> could use an Amiga in HAM mode to display all those 4096 colors, or a PC
>>> or Mac of course (either way, custom software is required).

I wrote a utility recently to convert a the 12-bit info from the "raw" format
of the AST visionary to a PC bitmap (BMP) format.  Converted several
pictures and they looked great on my 16-bit display mode on my PC.
Will e-mail anyone the utility that is interested, but it is written
in "Proton" and requires the "Proton" P8 Interpreter,
which you would need to install.  It can be found at:
     http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine/GS.WorldView
     Then click on Proton.