HamLab 1.0 DEMO				17 July 1990
(c) Copyright 1990 J. E. Hanway

HamLab is an interactive program which converts images from foreign file
formats to Amiga HAM mode pictures. The HAM pictures can be displayed
(and panned on a "virtual screen" if necessary) and saved in IFF format.

Translation filters are provided for GIF, Atari ST Spectrum 512, and MTV
ray tracer files. New filters can be added simply by adding a line to a
configuration file.

HamLab uses 24-bit RGB for nearly all intermediate calculations, and has a
boustrophedonic Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion (whew!) option which
significantly improves the quality of some images.  In my opinion, it
produces quality pictures that equal or exceed the best that I've seen,
including ones made by HamSharp and ASDG's The Art Department. In many cases,
I think that the results look as good as or better than SHAM and Dynamic
HAM files, without the disadvantages of either.

Requires ARP 1.3. Runs under 1.3 (and 2.0 beta 5).  For use in tight
memory situations, the PIPE: device (included with AmigaDOS 1.3) is
recommended.

For the best response time, it helps to have a lot of memory and/or a hard
disk, but HamLab has configurable options which make it usable on small
systems, too.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***

This archive is a demo version.  Unlike some demos, I wanted this one to
be useful. The only "crippled" feature is that images larger than 512
pixels wide or tall will be cropped.  Otherwise, all features including
save are fully implemented.

HamLab is the product of my off-and-on hacking with HAM mode since late
1985. I hope that you find the demo useful, even with its limitation.  

For a disk with the complete version of HamLab, the latest set of input
filters, and example filter source code, send $15.00 to:

J. Edward Hanway
149 Scotch Pine Dr.
Rochester, NY 14616-1668