Amiga video to component video or VGA?

[Zane H. Healy]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, John Foust wrote:

> I don't remember any SGIs, and neither do these guys at the moment
> they were interviewed.
>
> http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html
>
> Newtek's Lightwave software for 3D animation ran on Amigas first,
> using the Toaster side only as a framebuffer for desk-checks of
> the higher quality NTSC output.  The reality is, the rendered digital
> versions of frames were often pushed out through other real-time
> digital playback devices such as the Abekas (the DDR mentioned above).
>
> Later versions of Lightwave were ported to Windows both Intel and Alpha.
> For a year or two window in the early 90s, the Alpha had an edge over Intel.
> Moto released the '060 in '94 but I don't remember when the first
> Amiga boards appeared.

Lightwave, that's the software I was trying to remember.  I can guarentee
it ran on SGI IRIX machines as well.  I don't know if SGI's were used in
making B5 though.

Zane