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- >Just thought that we may be interested ;)))
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- >>Area: COMP.SYS.AMIGA.MISC Date: 06 Jan 96
- >>17:00:06 From: Harv R Laser (1:209/10)
- >> To: All
- >>Subj: Play Inc's Snappy. They'd do Amiga software except...
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- >>
- >>Play, Inc. is a company formed by a number of ex-NewTek people a year ago or
- >>so.
- >>
- >>Right now they have one product on the market: "Snappy." Snappy is a video
- >>framegrabber/digitizer. About the size of a pack of cigs, plugs into a PC's
- >>parallel port. It's battery powered.
- >>
- >>The quality of the grabs from Snappy are amazing.
- >>
- >>Today I found the Play, Inc. booth at CES in Vegas and there was Miss Kiki
- >>Stockhammer setting up to do her usual demos. I stopped and yakked with Mark
- >>Randall, VP of Marketing, who I have known for many years.
- >>
- >>Naturally the topic wove its way to Amigas. "Snappy will plug just fine into
- >>an Amiga" Mark told me. "There just isn't any software to drive it."
- >>
- >>"Why don't you write some?" I asked.
- >>
- >>I got the predictable reaction - "The Amiga market isn't big enough to make
- >>it worth our while. If someone else is serious about supporting Snappy and
- >>we believe they are, the necessary code could be made available to them to
- >>create an Amiga driver for it."
- >>
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- Don't feel bad.. there aren't any drivers for it under WinNT either or plans
- to do so...
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- - Rich Comber <eckland@ais.net>
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