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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Video Flyer question
- Date: 07 Mar 96 19:55:17 +0000
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
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- References: <17743D970S86.JWILDE@ukcc.uky.edu>
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- On 07-Mar-96 15:27:44, Jim Wilde <JWILDE@ukcc.uky.edu> wrote:
- >Can someone answer a simple question for me? I've always thought that
- >if I wanted to put a Flyer in my 4000, I had to buy a Toaster AND a
- >Flyer. But I just read a post by someone elsewhere that said that the
- >Flyer CAME with a Toaster. Which is correct...do I get to not spend an
- >extra 2 grand or not?
-
- The Video Toaster Flyer does require a Video Toaster board to operate
- on the Amiga.
-
- The Toaster for Windows, OTOH, is an adapted Flyer with a device
- called Toaster for Windows included. Since this version, not yet out,
- will come only in a Flyer version, this may have caused your confusion.
-
- I've only heard preview discussions of the Toaster/Flyer for Windows,
- and unless someone with actual experience using one can tell us more,
- I'd take most of its specs with a grain of salt. The only thing that
- I'm sure it will do is record & process video with as good of quality as
- the Amiga version.
-
- The Amiga Video Toaster takes advantage of, and is completely
- dependent on, the Amiga OS and custom coprocessors. This makes
- converting it to any other system difficult, but also is what makes it
- so hard to clone it on another system; no real-time video
- processor/switcher with similar specs and abilities is yet available.
-
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