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There is a settings for an offset in the frame scanning as well as size so than you can scan a "sub-frame", I don't know if it's the same thing for the Perfection ?

A little reading about the retro engineering process : https://ronangaillard.github.io/posts/reverse-engineering-epson-filmscan-200/

Hey cheesestraws ! Thanks for your interest, here is the link : https://github.com/ronangaillard/fs200-classic-mac Everything is not super clean, but there are some useful information I guess 😊

After a lot of reverse engineering, I finally cracked the frame selection : thanks to the ESC P (SetBay) command format The correct format is two identical bytes, both containing the frame number (1-indexed). I was trying [frame-1, 0] (0-indexed with mode byte) based on the 68k driver...

Hi everyone, Following up, I decided to take a different approach: writing a direct SCSI driver in C to control my Epson FilmScan 200, bypassing TWAIN entirely. The goal is to automate multi-frame scanning and save directly to disk. What I've discovered so far: The FilmScan 200 uses the...

Sorry ! I did not mean than PPC macs are not retro ! :D It's just that I don't have one ! I thought that the first ViewScan versions were for PPC, I'm going to have a look ! Thanks !

Unfortunately I don't have a modern machine with SCSI ! And I wanted a retro mac to be part of the scanning process 😉

I need to have a look. I'm not really confident as it's a film scanner it needs to scan six images in a row. But I'm going to have a look still ! Also the SCSI protocol is freely available in the service manual ! (I don't know if this was common at the time)

Thanks for your help ! Yes I guess you are right, the direct disk save must rely on the TWAIN driver/app. This scanner is not very popular so there is limited resource on the internet but I'll take another dive ! (Fun fact, the system 7 driver is still available on Epson official website) I'm...

Unfortunately there are only "Screen" and Printers in this list. I also thought I could add some kind of "file" destination but unfortunately no. I tried GC 3.7.2 but it had no TAWIN support. I then tried with 4.1 and it manages to scan a single picture (whereas PS 4 manages to scan 6 images...

Thanks for that detailed answer ! Unfortunately I went through the manual, and also though the "TWAIN interface" but I don't think there's a way to directly scan to disk. Here are some screenshots (nothing to play with, weirdly I cannot even set the Scanning Quality to "Fine") : That's very...

Hi everyone, I just got a Epson FilmScan 200 for cheap to scan my 35mm films on my SE/30. I finally managed to make it work and here is my current workflow : - Opening Photoshop 4.0 - File -> Acquire -> TWAIN Scan - Epson programs/plugin launches - Tick the six checkboxes in order to scan the...

Hi ! Sorry life got me very busy, and I lack enough motivation to go to the end of the project. The hardware part works perfectly, I was able to send packets and communicate through SCSI to my Mac. Unfortunately the retro enginering part of the original hardware I was trying to replicate takes...

Congrats ! Following with attention the next steps !

Sorry for the long delay. You can do what you want with the files, even a commercial usage. Try to mention me somewhere if possible.