Amiga TV Out

At 05:03 PM 11/27/2007, Jason T wrote: 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. :-) 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: Once upon a time, I wrote the first version of the "Video Toaster for Windows". Like many Amiga apps, the Toaster was highly controllable via ARexx, and these commands could come in the serial port. Newtek needed a splash for COMDEX, so I wrote a GUI in Visual BASIC running on a PS/2. It spit out ARexx via the serial port to a Toaster under the table. It had some of the same functionality as the Amiga GUI, except it was driven under Windows. The sad fact is that it won the "Best New Product of the Show" crystal trophy at that COMDEX. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or to the Amiga under the table skirt. - John