hue@netcom.UUCP (Johathan Hue) (01/09/90)
I saw the AAPS Micro TV at Fry's Electronics this weekend. For those of you who have never seen this, it plays a television picture in a window on a Mac II. Fry's sells it for $295. There wasn't any more information available, so I'll have to guess how it works. First of all, it's black and white. It's size was fixed at about 160x120 pixels. My guess is that it is a board that plugs into the NuBus, and takes a composite video signal for input. It probably digitizes the luminance portion of the signal to about 4-bits, and then transfers it to the Mac's frame buffer via DMA. This next idea isn't too clever, so I'm sure it isn't original. You could take one of those picture-in-a-picture VCRs, feed it into a genlock on an Amiga, and put up a custom screen with a window of color 0 right over the little PIP. Instant color TV in a window, at a total system cost less than the Mac monitor alone. -Jonathan
tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) (01/11/90)
>This next idea isn't too clever, so I'm sure it isn't original. You >could take one of those picture-in-a-picture VCRs, feed it into a genlock >on an Amiga, and put up a custom screen with a window of color 0 right over >the little PIP. Instant color TV in a window, at a total system cost less >than the Mac monitor alone. There were two demos we ran a few years back in the store I managed. One was a hack on the "spot" demo (remember that??) that put up randomw spots on a window in color ) so you had random glimpses of the under picture. The other was simple. I resizable, draggable color 0 window. Lots of fun there as well! (Actually , the real fon was using color 0 as that backround for workbench. **************************************************************************** Everything I say is (c) 1990, except the stuff I stole from someone else and the stuff I don't want responsibility for. Kenneth J. Jamieson: Xanadu Enterprises Inc. "Professional Amiga Software" UUCP: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP BEST PATH ---> uunet!tronsbox!tron1 Sysop, Romantic Encounters BBS - (201)759-8450 / (201)759-8568 ****************************************************************************