26 Feb
2005
26 Feb
'05
6:26 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:14:56PM -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I do mess with audio and video processing (my Digital
Audio
Workstation is nearing the 10 year mark), but I must confess the
addiction that isn't really practical for me on classic HW is
"Desktop Publishing", and that's mainly due to image editing. The
video is only possible on modern HW as I'm doing Anamorphic
Widescreen home movie DVD's with Dolby Digital sound.
I would think image editing could be done easily on classic machines.
The Onyx is well over 10 years old, and it runs the Gimp pretty well.
An Indy is about 10 years old and it will run photoshop 3 decently. And
there are, of course, the irix specific paint programs, if you can find
them. Like Matador, Amazon, Satori, or TV Paint. And let's not forget
StudioPaint.
A desktop publishing program would be harder to find, though Scribus has
been ported to Irix if you are willing to run a new OS on your classic
SGI. There is framemaker as well. I'm sure there must have been plenty
of other programs, but I have no idea what they are.
--
Joshua D. Boyd
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http://www.jdboyd.net/
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