28 Nov
2007
28 Nov
'07
4:38 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 05:03 PM 11/27/2007, Jason T wrote:
Uhhh, like this? http://www.classiccmp.org/wiki
:^)
Doc
> 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: