[geeks] Pegasos PPC ATX board

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun Jan 5 17:47:16 CST 2003


On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:50:43PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:

> > My impression was that was just a side effect of the
> > way they designed it for affordability.  From what I've seen, people
> > didn't start really going ape over video for the Amiga until after the
> > toaster came out, although I'm sure it would have been decent for
> > titling prior to the toaster.
> 
> There were a LOT of people doing TONS of video stuff with it *before* the
> Toaster.. The Amiga was originally designed as a video game machine, but
> turned into a "real" computer after the video console wars died out.  

Well, OK, video game console, sure.  However, that doesn't imply that it
was designed as a video production machine.  

And more importantly, it doesn't imply that all Amiga fans who might
have happened to start a company to build updated amigas would know or
care how to sync a monitor display to a cheap video camera.
 
> I did video titling and effects (no genlock or overlays, though) with the
> normal NTSC composite video out on my Amiga 1000, for a high school "weekly
> news" show.

How did you comp the graphics?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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