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Volume 5, Number 4 formerly Open-Apple • !IIay 1989 Vol. 5, 1'10. Ii 155M 08854017 newstand price: $2.50 A._._-_._-_._._._._._._._._._._._._-_._-----_._._._._.-._.- journal and exchange of Apple H discoveries photocopy charge per page: $0. 15 it from its normal position on the back of your IIgs and plug it into the Desktop video arrives card's ROB connector. If you have a composite monitor. you must dis­ connect it from its normal position and plug it into either the video­ Apple introduced a new 'genlock' video card for the Apple lie and out connector on the card or to the video-out connector on the VCR IIgs on April 3. Called the Apple II Video Overlay Card, it allows users -you intend to record output on (in this case, you must also run a to display a fuJl·color NTSC video signal (from a camera, VCR, or cable from the card's video-out to the VCR's video-in). video disk) on their computers screen and to combine color comput­ When used on a lie, the card can also function as an analog ROB er graphics with the video signal. The combined results are displayed card. In fact, the card can bring IIgs-quality Super High Resolution on the computers screen and can also be recorded on a VCR or graphics to Ihe lie, but no software has been written to support that broadcast for NTSC tetevision. The card's suggested retail price is feature. The card produces high quality video output and improves $549. the display on both the Apple lie and the IIgs. When the card receives The card isnt a 'frame grabber'-it can't caplure video images and input that meets National Television Systems Committee RS- t 70A store them inside the computer's memory. The only way to save the specifications. it produces R5-170A output which can be broadcast combined video/graphic Images Is on video tape. Likewise, the video for NTSC television. images themselves can't be manipulated, excepl for standard TV-like VldeoMlx. The VideoMix software Apple provides with Ihe card has tint and color adjustments. These adjustments are made using three functions. first, it allows you to select a 'key color'. You can VideoMix software that comes with the card in both New Desk Acces­ select the key color from a color chart or by pointing to it in your sory (for OS/ OS) and stand-alone ProDOS 8 versions. The VideoMix graphic. All other colors are called 'non-key colors'. software also provides control over video/graphic mixing. You create overlays by using the second function of VideoMix to 'NTSe describes the standard television signal used in North Amer­ make either the key color or the non-key colors transparent. The ica and Japan. Other parts of the world use other video standards. video source shows through the transparent colors. You can use Apple's new card supports only NTSC. VideoNix to independently set both the key and non-key colors to The new card can be used in two fundamentally different transparent (video shows through), opaque (graphics hide the video ). ways, first. it can be used in a 'desktop video production' environ­ or five levels of translucence (blends of video and graphics). ment. In this usage, the computer and its graphics are used to The third function of VideoMix allows you to control the color and enhance materials created with a video camera. Enhancements can tint of the video image as it appears on your computer screen. include the addition of titles, line drawings such as the football-play Graphics for use with the video overlay card can be created with analysis done by television commentator and former coach John Mad­ any existing Appte II graphics package. Expect to see these packages den, graphics such as logos, or full-blown animation (during develop­ slightly enhanced for use with the card . however. For example. most ment. Apple employees used code names such as 'Roger Rabbit' and of them need a feature to hide the cursor or mouse pointer. Other 'Jessica' to refer to this card). software may make more advanced use of the card. For example. the The second way the card can be used is to turn your computer into upcoming Hypercard-like HyperStudio from Roger Wagner Publishing a 'Multimedia Machine'. In this environment, television·quality video will include commands for controlling videa-disk players. images (either still pictures or movie sequences) appear on your com­ !IIarkets and Uses, tn a press release announcing the product, puter screen. The images that appear are controlled by .commands Apple said it expects the card to be used primarily in elementary and you enter on the keyboard or with a mouSe. This en~ironment requires additional hardware and software, however. ReqUITed hard­ ware. in addition to the video ovenay card Itself. include a con­ trollable video source. such as a video disk player or perhaps some new type of CD-ROM. Required 'software' would include both some­ thing for the computer and something for the video source itself. In a Multimedia Machine environment, your computer's monitor can take the place of your television screen. for example, by connect· ing a VCR to your Apple IIgs. you can watch Roseanne or Indiana Jones on your computer screen. Unfortunately. you can't also hear them. unless you hook your VCR up to your stereo system and turn that on. too. The video overlay card neither captures nor enhances the sound portion of the MTSC signal. but it does pass it through from videO-in to video-out. Jllaldng the connection. On the IIgs, the Apple II Video Overlay Card must be installed in slot 3. On the lie, it may be installed in any slot except I; slot 3 is recommended. Since the card includes no firmware, it doesn't interfere with the Apple II's built-in slot-3 80-col­ umn firmware. Two short cables attach to the card. One brings two 'RCA phone ptug' jacl<s to the back panel of the computer (video­ in/ video-out). The other brings a DB-IS analog ROB_connector to the .. AfP!£ Ca.1A.!rER 10 [:;SCCfflINiJE APPI.E Jr,,,. 0 K .• (~lWml/T. " back panel. If you have an analog ROB monitor. you must disconnect 5.26 A2·Centrai Vol. 5. /'(0. <I­ high schools and in homes. the two markets with the largest installed lor quickly and easily accessing information from GEnie with an Apple base of both Apple II computers and video equipment. The installed II. will also be there. Stop by and say. 'IIi, Toms!' base of Apple II computers in homes and schools is almost 5 million !'Iews from aaris. Claris has decided not to exhibit at May's machines. According 'to induslly research firm Market Data Retrleyal. Beston Applefest but will be going to Boston for the National Educa­ Inc .. 60 percent of the computers in U.S. primary and secondary tional Computing' Conlerence June 20·22. Claris is sending Iree schools ~re Apple II computers. Apple said. According tq ·Talmis. a updates to all registered AppJeWorks OS users this month. The update Unk Resources. Inc. subsidiary. 89 percent of U.S. public schools includes laster printing. better handling 01 colors and cropping in owned VCRs. and 9 percent owned videodisc players in 1988. Nielsen imported graphics. and an enhanced 'match records' command that Media Research found 62 percent of U.S. households owned VCRs in , adds some .bl the record selection rules available in AppleWorks. The November 1988. and 15.2 percent of those also owned video cam· updale"disk, also includes,a'stand-a1one program lor testing RAM chips eras. for CAS before RAS problems. which Claris thinks Is the problem at Additional information about the card will be available from the the root of many of the technical support calls it gets regarding Apple Programmers and Developers Association. The material will AppJeWorks as. Clans also is planning a new educational site licens­ include a technical description of the card's architecture and a ing program for both AppleWorks and AppleWorks 05. Expect an desCription of the Apple II Video I/O Toolset. announcement within .90 days. And look lor an AppleWorks 3.0 update later this year. Tidbits from Tech Tidbits. Sue Goodin and the technical support gang at Apple's Charlotte office produce an interesting little newsletter Miscellanea we get irregularly here at A2-CelJtrai. The last batch reminds us that: WIIiIe Apple Il.5eIf is sloWly retreatlng Irom the $1 billion·a·year • IIc Or IIgs users who complain that the letters that appear on their Apple II market around the world. other companies have begun to screen don't match the keys they're pressing on the keyboard understand the potential that an easy share of this market could have probably have accidentally changed their keyboard to the Dvorak on their bottom line. At an online conlerence on GEnie March t~. rep· I~yout. To fix. press the button called 'keyboard' on a IIc or resentatives of Laser Computer made It clear that they. at least. are change the keyboard 'option' in the IIgs control panel. happy with Apple's lack of interest in evangelizing the Apple II. • the G5/05 Epson printer driver is supposed to support the RX·80. Among other interesting things. the Laser representatives said that fX·IOO. fX-850. FX-1050. LQ-850. LQ·1050. and LX-800 printers.
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