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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
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Date: 25 Apr 91 22:16:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu

 
You have got to be joking!
 
New Tek is making no plans what-so-ever to offer the Video Toaster on ANY
other platform...both Apple and IBM waived money in front of their faces,
but they refuse to do it.
 
For one thing, interfacing the hardware would be abit of a pain because
they would have to build additional hardware that gave the correct NTSC
compatible signals to the board.
 
The software is written specifically for the Amiga, and it uses the Amiga's
built in hardware for its display.  It wouldn't be "impossible" to port it
over, but they would have to do ALOT of extra work.
 
What HAS been talked about, by New Tek, is the release of a standalone 
Toaster box for about $1000.  But  this more than likely will be just a
switcher/DVE...no paint...no 3D.  All of these would require an Amiga CPU
of some kind.  And while it wouldn't bee too difficult for them to purchase
Amiga motherboards for inclusion in their own box, it would cost ALOT more
than $1000 to do so!
 
This standalone box wouldn't be for interfacing to any particular computer
though.  I'm sure if they include a serial port on it, someone will write
some software to have it Mac controlled, or clone controlled.  But it still
wouldn't be like having the real thing, with all the apps intact.
 
And it sure as Hell woudn't be like a Toaster equipped A2000 sporting one
of GVP's new 50MHz boards with 32MB of RAM...not to mention the AmiLink/VT
edit controller software that gives you full control over the Toaster's
DVEs in an edit decision list.
 
Sorry, but New Tek's not going to make it THAT easy on Macfolk :)
 
Sean
 
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