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Truevision TARGA+ software suite (TIPS, VideoMaker, TypeRight) from 1993

thisisamigaspeakingthisisamigaspeaking
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Truevision TARGA boards were important graphics cards in the 80s and early 90s on PC and the origin of the .TGA file type. From what I understand, they were used for TV resolution true color graphics.

I have just started to work on preserving this software suite. I believe it is DOS software but makes reference to Windows as well. It may actually be Windows software - the macOS "file" command is reporting the install.exe are MS-DOS executables though. I have not tried running them yet.

Right now I was going to upload the manuals separately when I get a chance to scan them.

Any advice on best practices here? So far I have copied the files off the disks as well as made images of the floppies.

https://archive.org/details/truevision_targa_tips

Comments

  • antroposantropos
    I just wanted to thank you. I saw it at the archive, it's an important bit of computer graphics history.
  • thisisamigaspeakingthisisamigaspeaking
    Glad to help! Should be able to scan the documentation this week.
  • thisisamigaspeakingthisisamigaspeaking
    Ran into an issue scanning the first manual. The scanner seemed to be confused by the spiral binding for some reason. May try one page at a time.
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