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- From: tww2568@vms1.tamu.edu (Tom D Tek 7BvO)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Play Inc's Snappy. They'd do Amiga software except...
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 15:51 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University OpenVMScluster
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- Message-ID: <8JAN199615514735@vms1.tamu.edu>
- References: <149430@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <149430@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes...
- >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.
- [...]
-
- >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."
- [...]
-
- Yes.. I CALLE DUP Play and asked them about Amiga Support... they told me
- that there were SEVERAL Amiga fans int he department but they were not
- planning on doing an Amiga driver until they saw the status of the
- platform standing given the recent shift of ownership...
-
- I think if we went ahead and started applying pressure, we might be able to
- get a simple port, or better yet... the source code and then some of our
- great crack pot programmers would throw an MUI interface on it and
- shape it up for AGA/ECS support!
-
- How 'bout it guys!!! Send MArk some email and tell him how much we want the
- Snappy ported!!
-
- My Digiview is useless... The Sanppy does something like 1500x1500 in
- 24 bit!!!
-
- email mark at play at :markr@play.com
-
- tell'em what you think!
-
- >Harv | "Do you recognize the
- >harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- >http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- >hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
-
-
- Tom D Tek 7Bu)
-
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