Amiga video to component video or VGA?

At 11:06 PM 9/15/2009, Jim Leonard 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. That article mentions some effects done in Softimage. I know that Thornton used 3D Studio for some of the modelling in the early days of B5, as they'd use my 3D conversion software to move the models from 3DS format to Lightwave... but you'll have to take my word for that. As we've seen time and time again, press releases seem to write computer history. :-) - John