Re: AppleScanGS - Driver Info!

[Charles Turley <gbmaidsf@wco.com>]

article <4i2f1e$5a8@news.wco.com>, Charles Turley  <gbmaidsf@wco.com> 
wrote:
> I need some help finding a GS/OS scan driver.  Recently I obtained a CD
> [...] which contained [...] AppleScan GS.
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David: AppleScanGS works with Apple's "SCSIScan.Driver", which is provided with System 6.0.1.  There is an option to install it if y=
ou go into "Customize" in the Installer ("Device: SCSI Scanner", if I remember
right).
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My reply: Thanks David!  I tried it out with the SCSI high-speed card and it works great.
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David: This driver requires an Apple SCSI card.  If you have a RamFast, you are probably out of luck - Apple's driver certainly won'=
t work with
it, and the RamFast driver is not call compatible with it (assuming it
supports the scanner at all), so AppleScanGS will not work with a
RamFast.
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My reply: Understood, I don't have nor intend to get the RamFast. The Apple high-speed SCSI card works just fine for me.

David: You also need the original Apple flatbed scanner.  I doubt it will work with current or recent Apple scanners.
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David Empson
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My reply: Actually I've given it to a couple of our 1WSW team programmers that made some modifications to allow it to save and scan =
with 'Line-Art' and 256 colors, using 150 DPI.  I even used an old 3rd party FBS and got a fairly good set of color scans with it. T=
he program still needs a lot of work to make it recognize 256 color scans with the Line-Art mode, at 300 DPI.

Check them out if you wish - within the collection of gif files at:

http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/

(You'll find them inside the: Friends and Personal pics NEW folder)

I don't know what the legal aspects of making the modified version available for either private or public distribution, with an upda=
ted modification.  I'm researching this now with Apple Computer.  If I am allowed to make it available, it will be freeware.