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From: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:Live! doesn't work with 3000
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.230951.29843@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 90 23:09:51 GMT
Reply-To: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
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I talked to A-Squared today. The bottom line is that the person I talked to
(nice guy) admitted that there is a problem: "Probably a timing problem".
Not surprising. 

Then I asked if a fix was in the works. I have no problems paying to have my
Live! card "upgraded" to work with the 3000. It's worth it to me. He said
that the person I needed to talk to was at Siggraph this week. He mentioned
that they were bouncing various ideas around at the moment. They wanted to
wait until there was a number of 3000's out there (6 months). 

I made several suggestions, including a 32bit bus (ZorroIII) version of the
Live!. He replied "Gee, HAM would be pretty easy to do then". 

Needless to say, don't expect a fix any time soon. I'm sending them a letter
outlining my various suggestions to improve the Live!. A ZorroIII version of
a Live!, with a suitably updated Invision Plus could probably give the
infamous Video Toaster a run for the money. And it would be cheaper, and
work with consumer grade equipment. 

Oh well. I guess the 3000 purchase can wait. 

--hal


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