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From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24-bit, Real time frame grabber
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Date: 6 Mar 90 08:56:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from steve@cpoint.UUCP

> Marc,
> You almost hit the nail on the head but instead you got your thumb. ;-)
> The original development of our product started about the same time as
> the first Live! ad.  Since there were no 24 bit digitizers back then,
> we bought a few Targa-24's and built an address decoder to bridge the
> PC/Amiga busses.  The software talked to the Targa board until our
> hardware product was ready.  In order to save time, the software
> design and hardware design had to be run in paralell (sp?) so our Amiga
> board had similar specs to the Targa product in addition to some other
> features we needed like Amiga video overlayed on our graphic output.
> 
> Steve Steir - Clearpoint Research Corp., 35 Parkwood Dr., Hopkinton, Ma. 01748
Hmm..now if only your product followed the TARGA calls and registers, we would
be able to port over all the C code for the IBM TARGA's to the Amiga and have 
a REAL frame grabber!

Is your board register compatible with the TARGA products?

-- Bob
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