Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I Message-ID: <1991May3.071639.4875@ncsu.edu> Date: 3 May 91 07:16:39 GMT References: <1991Apr27.233408.208@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 29 > The interesting thing that came out of the demo, was that the rep from > Microware said that they were using Amiga's for production work of CD-I > animations. They're using Deluxe Paint III, DigiView, and the Toaster. Yes, some do. Not all, tho. For instance, I tried to get a couple of CD-I studios to buy Amigas, but they already had the needed soft/hardware tools on other machines. Tho I'd think that an Amiga with digitizer and Toaster would now be a handy and inexpensive addition. > His reasoning was that these tools don't exist on the CD-I hardware. Right, tools exactly like those don't exist yet on the CD-I player _itself_. But that doesn't matter, because: > Kind of interesting, but then he also said that every company doing > software development for CD-I is using different tools. That's the key. CD-I authors use Suns, Macs, PCs, Amigas... and whatever peripherals you can get for those. There are also CD-I crosscompilers for at least the first two mentioned, there are CD-I emulation units which hook up via SCSI/RS232, and of course there are digitization/paint/edit programs commercially available for the above machines. Many companies have also written their own custom authoring software over the years. In other words, CD-I authors have a large choice of tools and platforms. (If a CDTV author didn't feel obliged to use only Amiga equipment, he'd have a similar choice range.) I'd guess that a lot of the choosing is done by the artists, btw. If they're used to an Amiga, or Mac-II, or whatever, I suspect they beg for the studio to buy one . best - kevin