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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: "LIVE!" report
Message-ID: <21518@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 01:07:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 01:07:11 1987
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Keywords: Amiga, framegrabber, LIVE!
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In article <17201@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
>      What LIVE actually does is digitize a color composite video signal
>in real time with a 4-bit A-to-D.  But the Amiga doesn't have enough
>bandwidth to take all 4 bits at once at the TV scan rate, so only one
>bit of the four is transferred during each frame.

It should be pointed out that Live! does the reading in of data with the
68000.  This is why it can't get all of it in just one frame.  But check
out those pull down menus!  That was a very impressive hack.


>       $295, from A-Squared Distributions, Oakland, CA.
>Amiga 1000 only.  Plugs into bus expansion connector.

Add:
...does not pass the bus through.  Works in A2000 with Microbotics adapter
if you add some extra wires. (Microbotics did not pass all the signals)

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