kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (05/26/91)
> It's an Amiga with an SCSI port! And it goes in the MAC SCSI port. >They could not get the existing toaster to work in a MAC without a >complete re-make, I'm sure. It's very Amiga-dependent, and I think the >only way for them to get it to work on the MAC is to plug the mac into an >AMiga!!! Y'know, we all keep saying this, but so far without any detailed knowledge to back it up. Does anyone know for sure just how Amiga- dependent the Toaster is? Mostly the interface software, or ? wondering - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
sjm@brahms.udel.edu (Steve Morris) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May25.233513.10949@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >> It's an Amiga with an SCSI port! And it goes in the MAC SCSI port. >knowledge to back it up. Does anyone know for sure just how Amiga- >dependent the Toaster is? Mostly the interface software, or ? > >wondering - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu> The Toaster uses the amiga custom chips for much of it's data manipulation. That is part of the reason why it sits in the video slot. The toaster hardware as it now exists could not easily be ported to another platform. It would require redesign around other graphics chips. Steven Morris
James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) (05/28/91)
In a message dated Sun 26 May 91 00:41, Kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (kevi wrote: K> Y'know, we all keep saying this, but so far without any detailed K> knowledge to back it up. Does anyone know for sure just how Amiga- K> dependent the Toaster is? Mostly the interface software, or ? I want to qualify what I am about to say by saying that I really don't know for sure myself. What NewTek have said in interviews is that the toaster makes use of some of the custom chips in the Amiga to do some of the magic. I would make a guess and say either the copper, or the blitter, or both. If you do a digital transition effect with the toaster, what you see on the AMIGA control monitor is a coloured screen with weird lines and boxes moving where you see the digitaly compressed screen moving on the TOASTER monitor. - that is, as you scale/flip the toaster screen, something in the Amiga's video hardware is doing SOMETHING that shows up on the screen - looks like some kind of weird interference pattern, and the TOASTER software blanks the screen while the effect is taking place. As another piece of the puzzle, consider that an A3000 can use the Toaster if you take out the Denise chip, and replace it with an OLD Denise chip from another Amiga model (2000 series, whatever). This indicates that the Toaster uses some talent of that chip to do some of it's work.
set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Steve E Tietze ) (05/29/91)
I've heard from NewTek that their going to release a Stand Alone Sorta Black Box with a Toaster in it. Since I live near NewTek I also heard that their going to release their own computer or actually a Amiga 2000 with a toaster withabout 5 megs.... So the black box should solver the compatablity prob with Amigas.... Later <-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-> <-> AMIGA MAN! ***Kansas State University*** Steve Tietze <-> <-> Email set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu Phone 913-539-9101 <-> <-><-><-><-><-><-><->And Justice for All ... Metallica<-><-><-><-><-><-><->