Amiga TV Out

[Doc Shipley]

John Foust wrote:
> At 05:03 PM 11/27/2007, Jason T wrote:
>>> I heard that the Video Toaster people actually got HOSTILE reactions from
>>> some Mac fanatics, so they made a BIG box containing a video toaster and
>>> an Amiga, and sold that as a "Macintosh peripheral".
> 
> The Amiga had color desktop PostScript publishing before the Mac
> as I recall, too.  If specsmanship was your bag, you had plenty
> to be envious about.  :-)
> 
>> Wasn't there also an Alpha-based add-on unit?  Or was that after
>> NewTek stopped using Amigas?
> 
> There was NewTek's "Screamer," a quad MIPS, WinNT-based computer 
> for accelerated rendering of Lightwave scenes, of which at least
> press releases shipped.  There were other companies selling 
> AXP-based boxes for the same purpose, and Lightwave was independent 
> and available for each platform.
> 
> I think the Mac Toaster was not much more than a SCSI-based
> link between the two computers, but my memory may be failing me.
> I believe it just gave a way to control the video transitions
> and to move files between the two.  (Again, I suspect some of
> my software was involved to translate images to Mac PICT format.)
> 
> Once again proving that this list repeats topics and questions
> every few years and is in desperate need of a Wiki, I quote
> myself from 2002:

   Uhhh, like this?  http://www.classiccmp.org/wiki

   :^)


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