HiRes-70™ is an Image Processing, Editing, and Special Functions / Paint Program all wrapped up in one. It can do more things to a Slow Scan image than you can imagine, and it can do them very fast, while your QSO is going on.

How would you like to be able to receive a picture, and in just seconds, send the picture back to the originating station with his/her image wrapped around a BALL or an HOUR GLASS, and your "Replayed By" <Call Sign> graphic on the image? Sound amazing? It is!.

It is the only program on the market today that can perform the operations described above, and a whole lot more in just seconds, and was designed especially for the TASCO model TSC-70 Scan Converter. With the TASCO's 16 million (24 bit) colors viewable on the SVGA screen, and the "ThumbNails" allowing you to view the small images before they are loaded into the TSC-70, HiRes-70™ is the BEST graphics program you can buy!

HiRes-70™ Top Level Menu Choices

• MAIN
• IMAGE PROCESSING
• TEXT
• SPECIAL FUNCT
• PAINT

Overview of Operation

The MAIN menu provides the ability to remotely control the TASCO TSC-70 Scan Converter from the computer. You can also choose: LOAD image, SAVE image, UPLOAD image, and DOWNLOAD image, to and from the memory. The more than 140 image altering functions are divided between the other four menu choices.

Up to 30 ThumbNail images can be viewed on the VGA screen at one time, with paging for lots more. These images are displayed from your hard drive, rather than computer memory. This eases the file maintenance task.

File types such as: (.BMP), (.SSV), (.HRZ), and 8, 16, and 24 bit (.TGA) files can be loaded and viewed with automatic sizing. Images can be saved in either: (.BMP), (.SSV), or (.TGA) format.

If you have a 24 bit, 16 million, color video adapter card, it is possible to view the TSC-70 image on your SVGA screen. The ThumbNail directory images are always viewed in 256 colors. This allows anyone with a VGA video card to view their directory listing of stored images.

HiRes-70™ Lower Level Menu Choices

• MAIN
  • Mode Select: Robot, Scottie, Martin, AVT
  • Camera: On/Off, Acquire, Acquire 6 sec delay
  • Transmit:
  • Manual Receive:
  • Get TSC Status:
• IMAGE PROCESSING
  • Image Recuctions: Variable Sizes
  • Wedges: Top/Bottom (Four Sizes)
  • Cubes: Left, Right, Top, Bottom, with different images on all 4 sides
  • Tear Drops: Small, Medium, Large, Giant
  • Spheres: Variable Sizes
  • Hour Glasses: Small, Medium, Large, Giant
  • Filters: Despeckle, Blurr, Sharpen #1, #2, Emboss, Line
• TEXT
  • BackGround: Transparent, Color Strip, Clear Screen
  • Char Edge: None, 1 Dot, 2 Dot, Shadow, Shade
  • Direction: Horz/Vert, Italic, Slant L/R
  • Fade (Letters): No Fade, Vert Fade, Horz Fade
  • Size: Normal, Tall (1 to 5)
  • Select Color of: Characters, Background, Char Edge, Shadow, Shade
  • Select Font:
  • Insert: CallSign, Script Msg, Text
  • Font Editor: Create Fonts, Edit Fonts
• SPECIAL FUNCT
  • Lighten/Darken: Red, Green, Blue, or all 3 colors
  • Invert Colors:
  • Move L/R/U/D: 10 values
  • Mirror Image:
    • Left to Right
    • Right to Left
    • Top to Bottom
    • Bottom to Top
  • Edit Picture: Enlarges 3X. Allows Color Pixel editing
  • Flip Horiz/Vert:
  • Reduce Picture: Color Frame Yes/No, Variable Size
  • 3-D Image: Project In/Out, Depth 1 to 8
  • Fix Glitch: Single Horiz Line, Noise Fixer
  • Paste Transparency:
  • Rubber Stamp: Capture up to 1/4 of the Screen to Duplicate (Paste)
  • Clip Fragment: Capture Any Portion of Screen to Save in a Disk File
  • Paste Fragment: Paste Frag File from Disk to Screen
  • Merge Memory: Blends Image in Memory with TASCO Image
  • Inc Contrast:
  • Convert to B&W:
  • Filters: Despeckle, Blurr, Sharpen #1, #2, Emboss, Line
  • Logbook: List, Enter, Search, Print, AutoStamp Date/Time
• PAINT
  • Circles: Solid, Single color
  • Squares/Rect: Faded/Solid color, Variable Sizes
  • Frames: Solid Color, Full Screen, or Variable Size
  • Draw/Paint: Color Select
  • Make Transparency: Create Transparent Overlays
  • Paste Transparency: Insert and Paste Transparent Overlays
  • Flood Fill: Replaces Single Screen Color with New Color
  • Backgrounds:
    • Faded Rainbow, Vertical
    • Faded Rainbow, Horizontal
    • Color Bars, Vertical/Horizontal
    • Mosaic Tiles, Six Sizes
    • Solid Screen
    • Screen Fade, Horiz/Vertical
    • Color Grids, Horiz/Vertical
  • Borders: Faded Color, Four Sizes
  • Del Image:

Ordering and Contact information is on the home page.

Last updated 1999 March 11.