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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: stevebaz on April 19, 2006, 11:48:29 PM

Title: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: stevebaz on April 19, 2006, 11:48:29 PM

I used to use teach an animation module using the 1500 with Take2 but since I retired, 8 or 9 years since, I’ve stopped using the Amiga, I never was very good at the techy side of things - no techie to iron out the glitches - no Amiga fun.

I’ve now got an eMac and recently got Toon Boom studio - next is a graphics tablet to  get down to more fun and games.

In the meantime I’ve a line test (150 pencil  sheets) that I want to port over to Toon Boom and thence into an iMovie.
However, how to get the line test from either the 1500 to the eMac or the drawings into the eMac via the B/W security camera.

Equipment to hand:

Digital camera, acme peg bar, drawings with acme punched holes.
DAC 100 analogue to digital converter
Panasonic NV-S70BS-VHS-C. No single frame capabilty.
Epson scanner - scuzzie hooked up to my Mac 6500 but the base board of the scanner cuts off the bottom of the animatio paper.

Anyone got any ideas about the best way to go to get my animation into the eMac

The emac has USB and Firewire.

cheers

stevebaz

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: c64_d0c on April 19, 2006, 11:55:45 PM

good luck...
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Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: pierre on July 12, 2006, 05:48:51 PM

can't you just copy them to floppy (ibm format) and then ready them onto the mac?  Maybe use a PC to read the disks and burn a cdrom for the mac.  (not sure if the mac has a floppy).  Photoshop reaad .iff (amiga).

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: maffoo on July 12, 2006, 07:34:48 PM

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pierre wrote:
can't you just copy them to floppy (ibm format) and then ready them onto the mac?  Maybe use a PC to read the disks and burn a cdrom for the mac.  (not sure if the mac has a floppy).  Photoshop reaad .iff (amiga).

If the files are small enough to fit on a PC-formatted floppy, you could use a USB floppy drive connected to the eMac (I think it should be able to read the disc.)

An alternative would be to get a network card for the Amiga and transfer the files that way (expensive though.)

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: Tomas on July 12, 2006, 07:49:31 PM

I dont have much help to offer, but i will still welcome you to amiga.org.

There is 3 possibilities i know of though.. You could either use serial cable, get a network card, floppy disks or similar.

Also i want to give an offtopic tip.. and that is to open up your amiga and remove/or replace the battery as they tend to leak over time. The only purpose of this battery is to keep the clock/date on time while the amiga is off.

Good luck.

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: irishmike on July 13, 2006, 03:16:08 AM

Welcome to A.org :-)

I heard of some burning software for Amiga that is available (sorry don't remember the name currently) -- but perhaps you could just burn your files directly on a SCSI CDRW and then because it is ISO 9660 it should be readable by the Macintosh.

Hope that helps.  Got my CDRW for a song... be seeking the burning software later... perhaps someone can post the name of the software and a link?

Good luck with the project and again we welcome you to the community.

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: weirdami on July 13, 2006, 07:43:10 AM

1500?

Title: Re: Newbie with 1500 and 500
Post by: uncharted on July 13, 2006, 10:40:50 AM

The A1500 was a UK only model, which is basically a rebadged A2000.