Prof.Dr. Irwin Scollar schrieb:
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> ANNOUNCEMENT - WINBASP
>
> This is a non-commercial announcement.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> In der Au 9, D 53424 Remagen, Germany. Tel. (0049) 2642 23734
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Version 5.4 of the Bonn Archaeological Software package for Microsoft
> Windows (WinBASP) is now ready for downloading.
>
> The Bonn Archaeological Software Package (BASP) is a non-commercial,
> non-profit software project for and by archeologists which has been
> developed cooperatively since 1973.
>
> This version contains new tools for making color or symbol distribution
> maps of archaeological sites on scanned maps with Microsoft device
> independent bitmap output for printing and linking into major Windows
> word processor files. It also supports colored bitmap seriation diagrams
> including 'battleship' diagrams.
>
> You can make geographic maps of seriation and geographic or other
> clustering results as well as maps of phases, find combinations or counts of
> objects of a given type at a given location. The new mapping feature
> supports a considerable number of national and international grid systems
> and converts automatically back and forth between them and geographic
> latitude - longitude. It has automatic facilities for obtaining the site
> coordinates from the scanned map in any of the supported systems so that
> you don't have to type long error-prone number combinations. The results
> can be exported to a database (Dbase or Paradox) for other use. It can also
> be used for conversion between all supported grid systems, and it has
> import facilities for several major commercial databases.
>
> Winbasp data entry converts automatically between the any of following
> coordinate systems and plots to scanned maps using:
>
> Australian AMG-AGD84, Austrian Gauss-Krueger Bessel, Belgian
> Lambert ED50, French Lambert Clarke, Finland KKJ, German Gauss-
> Krueger Bessel, East European Gauss-Krueger Krassovsky, Irish National
> Grid Airy 1965, Italy Gauss-Boaga, Luxemburg Gauss-Krueger ED50,
> Netherlands Stereographic Bessel, Sweden-RT90 Euref89, Swiss Oblique
> TM Swiss Bessel, UK National Grid Airy 1830, UTM Clarke (NAD27),
> UTM International (ED50), UTM - GPS (WGS84).
>
> Coordinate conversions are offered in a separate module, Maplib.dll
> which can be used separately without the Winbasp package: Maplib.dll is a
> 16 bit dynamic link library for Windows It may be interfaced readily to
> other Windows or DOS protected mode programs which support DLL's
> including most major Windows databases, so that you can do your
> coordinate conversions directly in the database.
>
> The package also has more than 60 functions for Seriation, Clustering,
> Correspondance Analysis, Simulation, Social Status Analysis and other
> tools for archeologists working with IBM compatible PC's under Windows
> which have been developed over the years. A Windows shell for the latest
> revision of Harris Matrix Analysis for DOS is also included.
>
> Winbasp runs under Windows 3.10, 3.11, Windows NT and 95, and OS/2
> Warp in Win/OS mode. The package is not and will not be made available
> for Macintosh or Unix machines.
>
> The Theory and Tutorial handbooks have been completely revised and are
> 'on-line' in Windows Help format so that you can print as many copies as
> you wish with all the illustrations even in color if you have a color
> printer.
> There is a vast bibliography covering all the subjects in the package, as
> well as theoretical introductions for non-mathematically inclined users in
> addition to detailed program descriptions and colored screen samples of
> results.
>
> Other programs:
> Displa3d:
>
> A smooth surface is fitted to an unlimited set of irregulary spaced Z-valued
> points with X-Y coordinates in the plane using Akima quinitic polynomial
> interpolation on the triangulated data. Speed is optimal O(nlog(n)).
>
>
> Posthole
>
> A program for finding and displaying rectangular structures
> in scanned excavation plans
>
> Thanks to collaboration with Karel Segeth, director of the Mathematical
> Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, it has
> been possible to implement a new Windows 95/NT program for detecting
> rectangular structures in scanned excavation plans or from digitizer output.
> Karel has devised an especially fast algorithm and a set of data structures
> which make very fast searches possible.
>
> The program deals with the problem described in:
>
> M. Fletcher, G. Lock, Post built structures at Danebury Hillfort: An
> analytical
> search method with statistical discussion, Oxford Journal of Archaeology,
> Vol.
> 3, No. 2, 1984 p. 175-196.
>
> Other shorter articles by them appeared in Science and Archaeology in the
> same year and in 1981. See the references in the article above.
>
> Karel's algorithm is many times faster than the methods employed earlier. It
> completes in the order of seconds on several thousand holes. Karel wrote the
> original number crunching code in Fortran some years ago. He then modified
> it for dynamic data structures in Pascal. It has now been modified and
> optimized for 32 bit Windows by the undersigned.
>
> A new automatic 'hole finder' helps you to mark all the holes in a scanned
> bitmap without having to deal with each of them individually. Some rather
> unusual pattern recognition techniques have been implemented for this
> function.
>
> An industry-standard installation program installs the program to a directory
> of your choice and make a program group or Taskbar entry for it. There is a
> test scanned bitmap (test8bit.bmp) of part of an unpublished Iron Age
> excavation in Germany along with the geometrically transformed posthole
> data belonging to it (test8bit.tdf). The same data, in pure Ascii format as
> obtained from earlier hand digitization is also supplied (hole.asc) so that
> you
> can try fitting such data to a bitmap.
>
> You don't need a digitizer to use the program. Interactive posthole entry
> from
> the scanned image on the screen is supported with considerable comfort and
> precision and the automatic finder will find and mark most of the holes for
> you.
>
> The help file accompanying the program provides a short description of all
> functions.
>
> It is not advisable to try to run this program with less than 16MB of
> physical
> memory unless you have very small scanned bitmaps or have setup Windows
> with a very large swap file. In this case it will be very slow. 32 MB or more
> memory is highly recommended for speed. Processor speed is less important.
>
> The program was developed on a 200 Mhz dual Pentium Pro clone with 256MB
> memory and tested under:
>
> Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5
> Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
> Windows 95 Service Pack 1
>
> It will probably run well enough on smaller but not on the smallest machines.
> It can neither be installed nor run under Windows 3.11 even if you have
> installed Win32s. You must have a true 32 bit operating system to install and
> run it.
>
> Still in Beta Testing, but nearly bug free:
>
> Airphoto - A WinNT/Win95 Program for Geometric Processing of
> Archaeological Airphotos
>
>
> Aims:
>
> An estimated 5,000,000 images made since the 1920's in the European
> archives represent an enormous amount of data which may never be
> recaptured under controlled conditions. It is the goal of AirPhoto to deal
> with
> this kind of image within the limits of the data and the financial limits of
> most
> archaeological institutions and private investigators by
> non-photogrammetrists.
>
> AirPhoto provides a useful tool for archaeologists (and perhaps others)
> without large amounts of money to spend on user-hostile photogrammetric
> hardware or expensive software which will enable them to deal with a
> reasonable number of the many aerial images which have accumulated over
> the years using modest PC's and peripherals.
>
> What AirPhoto does:
>
> AirPhoto makes pseudo-orthophotos from scanned extreme obliques and
> superimposes scanned maps on them in various ways. It is not a
> photogrammetric plotting program, nor is it a true orthophoto program
> working from a digital terrain model. It is designed to give a very fast
> result
> with a minimum of handwork apart from the entry of corresponding control
> points in a picture and a map just by clicking the mouse. Color or black and
> white images of various formats may be used or obtained directly from a
> scanner. Up to four maps may be combined to obtain a result for pictures
> which show data contained within more than one map. Mosaics may be made
> from multiple color or black and white images. The map may be overlaid in
> black or white with the image(s) or combined with them to give best
> visibility.
> If desired, a mosaic may be made with a neutral background for processing
> elsewhere.
>
> Another goal for AirPhoto is to avoid as much human interaction with the
> data in the images as possible. The idea is to use extreme oblique images and
> overlay them with a base map or maps as output if desired. Other applications
> are also possible. It is primarily intended for images made with uncalibrated
> hand-held normal cameras. It also includes transformation for dealing with
> some kinds of satellite or scanner imagery and for images made in hilly
> terrain
> without a digital terrain model.
>
> AirPhoto offers full color image processing, an unlimited number of control
> and calibration points, an unlimited number of windows on the screen at once
> (hardware dependent), extremely rapid processing and a large variety of
> options. There are no numbers to be entered anywhere unless manual control
> has been deliberately selected. All options and previous program states are
> recorded and played back when the program is restarted.
>
> AirPhoto also offers calibrated mapped output in any of a large number of
> national and international coordinate systems including conversion to and
> from GPS coordinates.
>
> What AirPhoto does not:
>
> AirPhoto is a multiple document interface (MDI) Microsoft Windows
> program which runs only under Windows NT or Windows 95 (98) on Intel
> processors. It is not, and can not be offered for other hardware platforms or
> operating systems.
>
> AirPhoto is not intended to compete with high accuracy high priced user-
> hostile photogrammetry packages requiring knowledge of photogrammetric
> principles. Most archaeological air photos have been made with uncalibrated
> cameras under uncontrolled conditions with inadequate numbers of control
> points, so only a fairly useful smi-quantitative result is feasable.
> Nonetheless,
> sub-meter accuracies are usually obtainable.
>
> It is also not intended for making site plans which are essentially based on
> subjectively extracted data from photos put into maps. AirPhoto has no option
> for subjective choice of information apart from the choice of control points,
> it's WSIWIG (what you see is what you get).
>
> Why use AirPhoto?
>
> It is much faster than a photogrammetric plotting program and is without any
> subjectivity in the interpretation of data by the user. The disadvantage is
> that it
> is not easy to incorporate data from many photographs taken over many years
> under widely varying conditions at least in the present version, although you
> may make photomosaics from these in black and white or in color.
>
> It will not deliver a black and white site plan such as archaeologists are
> used to
> using. It only delivers a new image in color or in black and white,
> geometrically corrected to fit the map data as a guide to where things are.
> It
> does not deliver the abstraction from reality which a plan constitutes. The
> user
> then has to make his own decision about the information thus presented and
> perhaps use the output in a CAD or GIS, or drawing package to superimpose
> his interpretation on the geometrically corrected data if desired.
>
> Hardware requirements:
>
> A Pentium, Pentium Pro or Pentium II processor will greatly speed up operation
> but the program has also been tested successfully on a 486 66mHz machine
> with 20 MB, although it is rather slow under those conditions compared with
> the 200 Mhz Dual Pentium Pro 256 MB machine on which it was developed.
>
> At least 32MB or more of physical memory is an advantage. The virtual memory
> setting of the machine should be set to at least 64 MB, preferably more. You
> should defragment your hard disk before changing the virtual memory setting
> if you are using Win95 prior to OEM version 2 or have a FAT16 file system
> or if you have WinNT installed on a FAT partition.
>
> You also need a good high-resolution scanner to enter data. A flatbed or
> slide
> scanner with at least 300 dpi and 24 bit color resolution is recommended if
> you
> wish to process color airphotos. It is advisable to check the geometric
> accuracy
> of a scanner-laser printer combination by scanning a map, printing it at 1:1,
> then holding the output print over the original on a light table to see if
> errors
> are acceptable. If you use a slide scanner for airphotos and a flatbed
> scanner
> for maps, it is very important to check for possible geometric
> incompatibilities.
> Currently, the program has no facility for calibrating a scanner/printer
> combination.
>
> It is advisable to have a display with 1024x768 or higher resolution, but the
> program will work with displays having lower resolution. If you have an older
> display card, you may experience temporary smearing when entering control
> points using a unique magnifying window. This is due to slow refresh in such
> cards and cannot be corrected via software.
>
> It is also useful to have as much physical memory as your machine and
> finances can support. However,be warned that if you have a machine with the
> most common Intel 'glue' chipsets, the optimum amount is 64MB, beyond
> which performance may actually degrade due to cache misses. This restriction
> is not present in Pentium-Pro and certain Pentium II or some non-Intel
> motherboards. Check with your computer dealer or expert before enlarging
> memory beyond 64MB.
>
> Operating System:
>
> Although the program will usually run under Win95, it runs 20% faster and
> better under WinNT 4.0. Some problems which have been encountered due to
> unusualy hardware incompatibilities under Win95 make it advisable to switch
> to WinNT to run AirPhoto in such circumstances.
>
> The basic Winbasp Standard Program Package:
>
> *************TRIAL VERSION for WINBASP*************
>
> A fully featured time-limited trial version is available via FTP or WWW.
> You need an FTP receiving address where the programs ( 7 compressed
> diskette images, ca. 4.5 MB total ) can be stored. The diskette images are
> all less than 720KB each, so that you can download them singly if you have
> severe space restrictions.
>
> *************REGISTERED VERSION*************
>
> Registered users of Version 5:
>
> Use your access code to remove the time limitation from updates or first
> installations. Updates are without charge.
>
> The programs can be downloaded from World Wide Web Sites at:
>
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/~al001/basp.html {Univ. of Cologne, Germany}
>
> http://super3.arcl.ed.ac.uk/baspmirror/basp.html {Univ. of Edinburgh,
> Scotland}
>
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/go?basp or {Univ. of the State of New
> York at
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/BASP Buffalo, USA}
>
> http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/basp/basp.html {Univ. of Connecticut,
> Storrs, USA}
>
>
> or via anonymous ftp:
>
> ftp.uni-koeln.de /pc/basp (ftp is part of the address!)
>
> mirrored at the University of Edinburgh ftp site:
> super3.arcl.ed.ac.uk, /ftp/pub/baspmirror
>
> For all files:
> get readme.win
> mget baspwin*.zip
> get readme.3d
> mget disp3d*.zip
> get readme.air
> mget airfoto*.zip
> get readme.hol
> mget posthol*.zip
>
> For Winbasp, change baspwin*.zip to baspwin1.zip...baspwin7.zip if you
> have space problems and load each one separately in a separate run of ftp
> after downloading the previous file to your PC, deleting each previous file
> after testing for a successful download by decompressing the file. In that
> case, use get instead of mget. Proceed similiarly with disp3d1..6.zip and the
> others. See the readme files for detailed instructions on installation.
>
> Use pkzip2.04g's pkunzip.exe (shareware from all Simtel mirrors) for safe
> decompression or a compatible program.
>
> Please feel free to copy the files to any local ftp server to which you have
> access so that others may download them without having to access the
> overloaded Cologne server. Please notify me of the name of the server if
> you have done so.
>
> Note:
>
> Cologne, Edinburgh and Storrs usually have the very latest versions since I
> can load these myself. Buffalo is sometimes a day or two later after
> Hugh Jarvis, the owner performs the upload.
>
> Always try the server nearest you. The Cologne server permits only 16
> simultaneous connections and is quite slow when heavily loaded. The
> North America-Europe Internet connection is also heavily overloaded
> during peak working hours. If you find that a transfer is taking too long,
> send me an e-mail for instructions on how to make the transfer at more
> favorable hours without being on-line in the 'wee hours of the morning
> ('WinBasp by Night' script for Unix servers only). Use the Buffalo server if
> you are in the Western Hemisphere.
>
> Old DOS version:
>
> The complete 1992 Version 4.5, Basp for DOS, is still available free from
> most SimTel mirror servers via FTP (SimTel/msdos/statstic/basp4dos.zip).
> It must be decompressed and installed with Pkunzip version 2.04g or later,
> also available from SimTel/msdos/zip/pkz204g.exe. It is about 2Mb in
> size. It does not have many of the features described above.
>
> Winbasp is available for trial via FTP and WWW. For permanent
> installation of the trial version, see the file order.doc in baspwin1.zip for
> details or click on the Register-Help Icon. Displa3D, Posthole and
> AirPhoto are currently available without charge, but AirPhoto requires a
> beta tester access code obtainable on e-mail request for more than 30
> trial runs or 30 days of use.
>
> Irwin Scollar
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> Thank you for your enquiry about Winbasp / AirPhoto.
>
> All programs should be downloaded from one of the following:
>
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/~al001/basp.html {Univ. of Cologne, Germany}
> http://super3.arcl.ed.ac.uk/baspmirror/basp.html {Univ. of Edinburgh,
> Scotland}
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/BASP {Univ. of the State of New
> York at Buffalo, USA}
> http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/basp/basp.html {Univ. of Connecticut,
> Storrs, USA}
>
> or via anonymous ftp:
>
> ftp.uni-koeln.de /pc/basp
> super3.arcl.ed.ac.uk, /ftp/pub/baspmirror
>
> No other form of delivery is available.
>
> You may install Winbasp on as many PC's as you wish without any extra
> charge. AirPhoto may be installed on one machine or a network server
> only.
>
> Payment via encrypted credit card transfer is the cheapest way to do this
> for you. When you install the trial version after downloading, a small icon
> will appear in the Winbasp group labelled 'Register' and another with
> 'Register Help'. The registration program will encrypt your credit card
> information so that it is even more securely protected against unauthorized
> examination than if you send it via mail.
>
> In Winbasp after installation, click on Register Help first, read the
> instructions, then click Register either from within the help or from the
> group and follow the instructions there. In AirPhoto, the credit card form
> will appear each time the program runs during the trial period.
>
> You may also use the public domain program PGP and the public key
> below to encrypt a credit card number and its expiration date using the
> form below, if you prefer. Other payment methods are also described
> below.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Irwin Scollar
>
>
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> ==
> Ordering WinBasp/AirPhoto
> ******Purchase orders cannot be accepted*******
> ***Advance Payment is Required from All***
> ***Invoiced Billing for Institutions is not available***
> ***Diskettes are not available***
> The current price of WinBasp/AirPhoto is given in the Pro-Forma Invoice
> below.
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> ==
>
> An access code for permanent installation and reinstallation of WinBasp /
> AirPhoto
> is required. Further details will be sent to you along with your personal
> access code when payment or a valid credit card number has been
> received.
>
> Credit Card payment:
>
> You may pay by credit card at no extra charge. This is the cheapest way for
> you to pay regardless of your location. You should use the secure encrypted
> registration program Regmail.exe which is automatically installed when
> you have done a trial download to encrypt your credit card number and
> your personal data safely. This program has a little 'key' icon to identify
> it
> in the Winbasp group. If you are already registered, this icon does not
> appear. This program will make a file which can only be read at the
> Unkelbach Valley Software Works. Send this file via e-mail to the address
> given by the program.
>
> Warning:
>
> We will not be responsible for any losses which you may incur if you ignore
> this warning and send a credit card number via e-mail without
> encryptation. There are dangerous criminal hackers prowling the Internet
> who might intercept it and cause financial catastrophe!
>
> Non-Credit Card Payment:
>
> A pro-forma invoice below is included for the convenience of institutional
> users so that they may obtain a banker's order cheque from their
> adminstration. The cheque must be included with the stub at the bottom
> of the enclosed form so tha we can identify you as the source. Please make
> sure that you or your administration have told your bank that you will carry
> all bank charges. Have your bank specify a German correspondent bank
> on the cheque. We will return cheques which are not for the full amount
> shown. Currencies other than DM unfortunately can no longer be
> accepted.
>
> When you have your access code, just reinstall. A second download is not
> needed. Full VAT is included for all Internet deliveries without
> exceptions.
>
> Please print out, cut, fill out, sign and return the form below via air mail
> or
> with your checque get your programs and/or access code if you can't use
> the e-mail registration program.
>
> For security reasons, ***never*** send your credit card number via e-mail
> without encryption. If you can't use the registration program, you may use
> the public key below with PGP to encrypt your order.
>
> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> Version: 2.6.3i
>
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>
> Updates:
>
> Updates for the life of version 5 of Winbasp or Version 1 of AirPhoto are
> free of charge. Notification of update availability is via e-mail only. You
> must include your e-mail address below to take advantage of this service.
>
>
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> This offer expires on 30 June 1999. Orders received after that date
> will not be accepted at the price shown.
>
> The Unkelbach Valley Software Works
> In der Au 9, D 53424 Remagen, Germany Tel. (0049) 2642 23734
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>
>
> PRO FORMA INVOICE
>
> Date:
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>
>
> Description Quantity Amount in Deutsche Mark
>
> The Bonn Archaeological
> Software Package fr Windows 1 75.00
>
> AirPhoto 1 418.00
>
>
>
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>
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>
> VAT 16% included
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>
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