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- Subject: Play Inc's Snappy. They'd do Amiga software except...
- From: tom@ai.inka.de (Thomas Boerkel)
- Message-ID: <0000eb80@ai.inka.de>
- References: <149430@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 13:00:39 MET
- Organization: Amiga Inside
-
- Hi, Harv!
-
- Harv R Laser wrote:
-
- > 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.
-
- As far as I heard, it doesn't grab the picture in realtime. Thus, it's
- only an enhanced DigiView and not THAT great for $200 IMHO.
-
- Who would want a non-realtime digitizer in 1996?
-
- There are two or three parallel port REALTIME digitizers available for
- the Amiga, so what?
-
- BTW: Didn't Play Inc. want to make products like the VideoToaster?
-
- Bye,
- Thomas
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