Video Toast – PC Version
03-Jan-92 01:19:35
Sb: #32735-Video Toast – PC Version
Fm: Matthew J. W. Ratcliff 76703,1077
To: Frank Vanella 76527,723
The Toaster uses the Amiga's video coprocessors (3) for quite a few
low-level chores. These Amiga custom chips include a blitter, a display
list coprocessors, and hardware sprite animation channels. To duplicate a
toasteer without an amiga, one would need to recreate these custom chips.
add to this the fact that the Amiga video signals already run at NTSC
rates, meaning scan conversion is not necessary and the amiga software has
a real-time preemptive multi-tasking multi-processor kernal and dual-proted
memory which allow the coprocessors and cpu to operate simultaneously, and
efficiently. These software features are still not available on
microcomputers without something like unix or os/9 maybe…