I gave it a shot (above); the art doesn't "pop" much in copies of a copy, but available in Hi-Res on the site, of course. Let me know if it didn't work. Thanks, Don.
It looks cool, I think. I'm afraid that the intricate pip design might get lost in the printing, at least in the indices. What do you others think?
I gave it a shot (above); the art doesn't "pop" much in copies of a copy, but available in Hi-Res on the site, of course. Let me know if it didn't work. Thanks, Don.
The art is fine. Why would it not "pop" just like the original image? Copies of a copy are degraded in the analog world - digital copies are identical to the originals. If they weren't, the music industry wouldn't have imploded a few decades ago when computers became sophisticated enough to copy music CDs. Cassette tape copies of albums were sufficiently "degraded" that the cassette tape's invention wasn't the severe crisis that the burnable CD and the invention of the MP3 file were.
I gave it a shot (above); the art doesn't "pop" much in copies of a copy, but available in Hi-Res on the site, of course. Let me know if it didn't work. Thanks, Don.
The art is fine. Why would it not "pop" just like the original image? Copies of a copy are degraded in the analog world - digital copies are identical to the originals. If they weren't, the music industry wouldn't have imploded a few decades ago when computers became sophisticated enough to copy music CDs. Cassette tape copies of albums were sufficiently "degraded" that the cassette tape's invention wasn't the severe crisis that the burnable CD and the invention of the MP3 file were.
While not a computer person by any stretch, I've done a bit of recording. I believe the answer is "lossy compression." If I speak to you over my phone, my voice is squashed into billion of bits of information. Many of those bits are then dropped in order to reduce the bandwidth needed to transmit that voice. When those packets reach YOUR phone, there's no way to recapture that info - it's lost. Likewise with Photoshop; if I work on a 40MB image and overlay a half-dozen masks, then merge them all, I can end up with an image which would take a very long time to transmit from computer to computer. I save them in a format which is much smaller "Lo Res," or "Web format" for web sites, meaning that much of that information has been discarded. What gets recreated at the other end is "good enough for gummint work," but not nearly as detailed as the original. I don't know whether that process repeats over and over as it is sent forward. My hunch is that it does, but we'd need a "computer person" to answer that.
I cheerfully concede full ownership of the topic to the Master, and humbly accept the teachings! (How does Don KNOW all this stuff?!)
"You have to know these things when you're King..." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
I cheerfully concede full ownership of the topic to the Master, and humbly accept the teachings! (How does Don KNOW all this stuff?!)
"You have to know these things when you're King..." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Easy now! Don't talk like that too much, or we will need to add a few gigabytes of space for Don's head :t11:
Bwah hah ha, I've got you beat. I remember the shock when the 'Trash 80' came out, BECAUSE you could load onto a cassette tape, and it had an ONBOARD OPERATING SYSTEM! My God! The revolution is upon us! Blew the Atari (on which I learned Basic) out of the water.
I owned a KayPro 1 (6" green screen) which had two floppy drives - one for the operating system, one for "memory." Weighed about 50 pounds, the size of a suitcase. No onboard ANYTHING.
My first real programs were in boxes of punch cards. Was there before dot matrix, daisy wheel, LEDs or pocket calculators. I suddenly feel the need to take some Geritol and buy some Depends... Sorry, we've now moved to a whose different solar system. Mea culpa.
The original TRS-80s didn't have an OS, they had a programming language - in many ways similar to your Atari, but in black and white with giant pixels, the size of a kid's pinky finger.
The original TRS-80s didn't have an OS, they had a programming language - in many ways similar to your Atari, but in black and white with giant pixels, the size of a kid's pinky finger.
Got you beat, my TRS-80 model I had 4K. Or maybe that is what I ordered, either the 8K machine or the 4K machine was not delivered. Spent may hours debugging the programs I typed in from Byte magazine. In the early 1980s I started building my own clones with MS-DOS 1.1.
But I digress.
Back to the 4 Seasons deck, I heard rumors that they were going to set up a US distributor, hopefully the shipping cost will drop.