Video Toast – PC Version
05-Jan-92 20:34:12
Sb: #32936-Video Toast – PC Version
Fm: Jim Saklad 72017,355
To: Martin Pigg 72040,3651
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course these things CAN be done on other platforms, but the above-mentioned
compatibility means they can be done _inexpensively_ on the Amiga.
2) Built-into-EVERY-machine graphics co-processors. A minimal Amiga 500
system with an adaptor to display on TV so you can save the cost of a
monitor can be bought for around $400, and it can do ray-tracing, video
titling (I guess you would need a genlock for that), or the previously
mentioned landscape re-creation. Slowly and inconveniently, to be sure,
with no hard drive and no accellerator and limited RAM, but even the basic
system can DO it!
. . . . . JimDoc