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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
Message-ID: <1991May20.003633.16433@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 May 91 00:36:33 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In-Reply-To: message from dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu

 
While under the control of AMAX, you would have no access to the Toaster. 
The Toaster's software requires AmigaDOS.  Under AMAX you no longer have
any ties to AmigaDOS, even though makes use of the custom chips to speed up
operations such as screen updates, etc.
 
I 'spose they could run AMAX on an A500, and control a Toaster equipped
A2x00, or the "Trojan Horse."  But my question would be, is it worth it?
 
They should just learn to run the Amiga software to use the Toaster...it'll
make life easier on them.
 
Now, if Readysoft chucked the Apple ROMs and went with the new clone ROMs,
then AMAX (or should I say SuperAMAX) could multitask, and run the MAC as a
subtask under AmigaDOS...then you could do some interaction between
environments on the same machine.  The trick is, then developers would have
to program for the AMAX environment, which would be very interesting.
 
Or MAYBE, Commodore will liscense the Amiga's custom chips, and some clever
Mac developer will write an Amiga emulator, complete with a videoslot so
that the Toaster could be plugged in....R I G H T~r :)
 
Sean
 
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