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From: amgreene@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Marc Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DCTV, COLORBURST, TOASTER tech info wanted
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.164011.19868@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 16:40:11 GMT
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In article <7966@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>In article <91068.142839ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA> ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA (ACPS1072@RYERSON) writes:
>>  After reading all the nice things people have had to say about the
>>Toaster, Colorburst, and DCTV, I would like to ask...
>>
>>  Is any information given out in terms of writing applications for
>>the above neat-o items? 
>>
>As far as DCTV is concerned, it comes with utterly NO programming
>information and in fact, Digital Creations (its maker) is not currently
>even giving out the DCTV "display" file format.[]  I know some very talented 
>people who would love to write their own DCTV programs but Digital's
>reluctance to give out their file format is keeping them from doing so
>for the time being.  
>
>disclaimer: I'm a DCTV owner. I think it's a real nifty device. I have
>a ball using it. But I agree with those who would like to see Digital
>release the file format so other developers could make use of it.
>

Ditto for the Toaster.  I love it, and AREXX is OK for programming
``Do this effect, wait 3 seconds, trigger the character generator,''
but I can't do what I really want because NewTek isn't releasing
programmer's info.

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