Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!herald.usask.ca!telepro!tptbbs!James_Hastings-Trew From: James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Toaster (was Re: ColorBurst NTSC) Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 04:56:12 GMT Article-I.D.: tptbbs.James_Hastings-Trew.3156 Organization: TelePro Technologies Lines: 24 In a message dated Sun 26 May 91 00:41, Kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (kevi wrote: K> Y'know, we all keep saying this, but so far without any detailed K> knowledge to back it up. Does anyone know for sure just how Amiga- K> dependent the Toaster is? Mostly the interface software, or ? I want to qualify what I am about to say by saying that I really don't know for sure myself. What NewTek have said in interviews is that the toaster makes use of some of the custom chips in the Amiga to do some of the magic. I would make a guess and say either the copper, or the blitter, or both. If you do a digital transition effect with the toaster, what you see on the AMIGA control monitor is a coloured screen with weird lines and boxes moving where you see the digitaly compressed screen moving on the TOASTER monitor. - that is, as you scale/flip the toaster screen, something in the Amiga's video hardware is doing SOMETHING that shows up on the screen - looks like some kind of weird interference pattern, and the TOASTER software blanks the screen while the effect is taking place. As another piece of the puzzle, consider that an A3000 can use the Toaster if you take out the Denise chip, and replace it with an OLD Denise chip from another Amiga model (2000 series, whatever). This indicates that the Toaster uses some talent of that chip to do some of it's work.