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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
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Date: 2 May 91 16:28:55 GMT
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In article <8914@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from bard@jessica.stanford.edu
> 
>Also...there is no proposed $4000 Mac version.  There will be a standalone
>box that you will be able to buy under the New Tek label, but it will be an
>Amiga/Toaster bundle.  The Mac (or IBM clone for that matter) can send its
>video to one of the Toaster's inputs (providing it's been converted to
>NTSC), and can possibly send commands for effects, etc. through the RS232
>port, or a possible LAN port and communicate through ARexx.
> 
>But there would be no difference between using an "Amiga" Amiga, and a
>"New Tek Video Computer" Amiga.  They're both Amigas...the only difference
>is in the name.  What is in a name...
> 
>And I quote from the May 1991 issue of Mac World magazine, page 107, bottom
>left paragraph, 3rd sentence:
> 
>        Though the Video Toaster requires an Amiga 2000 or 2500, NewTek
>        is promoting a Toaster-Amiga combination as a Macintosh peripheral
>        that can be connected to a Mac with an RGB-to-NTSC encoder like
>        RasterOps' Video Expander board...NewTek is adding the ability to
>        read and write Macintosh bitmaps, some 3-D formats, and PostScript
>        files so they can be animated or used as overlays.
> 
>What NewTek is proposing is what any Mac user can do right now.  All they
>have to do is go down to an Amiga dealer, plunk down their cash for an
>Amiga and Toaster, and there they are.  The software upgrade will just be
>there to benefit Amiga users, though it will make life easier for Macfolk
>who own an Amiga to have access to the Toaster.
> 

  Actually, mac users could easily by the Toaster or Amiga set-up along
with a Mac emulator, such as Amax II+, and run the mac software right
off of the Toaster set-up.

> 
>You can either wait for NewTek...or get some work done NOW!
> 
>Sean
> 
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    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
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