#Scala at NAB
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John- I knew about "Private Channels" after my phone conversation with
George and Reid. Now, I am waiting for some NLE stuff.
Thanks,
Craig
Craig ——-> via autopilot
czwiener@services.dese.state.mo.us
Ah, so you do know about this new company called "Play"?
Warmest Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
Hi John-
Sorry I didn't look you up at NAB… So is Scala going to the PC
platform and DUMPING Amiga any time soon?… I hope not; just feeling more
paranoid lately about the poor, abused Amiga (If the Amiga was a child, it
would have been on OPRAH, PHIL etc., as full hour specials)
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Mike Smith
Scala is certainly not going to dump a platform which is raking in bucks
for them and which is a cheap delivery system. If they are losing some
business because some idiots insist on not considering machines without
Intel processors, however…
— Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
— INTERNET:dale@iam.com
Thanks Dale! Kristen R. considers you still on her hit list for sending me
that picture of her! ;-}
Warmest Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
Can I ask you a couple questions about Scala MM300? Firstly are you
aquainted with The Director by Right Answers? I'd like to know how Scala
compairs to it. Can you preload pictures in buffers? Can you page flip
with Scala? Can Scala cut out brushes from a picture in memory and paste
them over a picture being displayed (or about to be displayed?) Thanks.
Mike,
It is not likely that we will completely drop support for the Amiga platform.
As I have stated before in past messages, the Amiga platform continues to be
the best cost/performance platform available for multimedia delivery.
Indeed, we are working on a PC version of the software. If we as a company
want to continue to grow, we must diversify and look into other markets for our
products. As you may know, there are approximately 5-8 million Amigas in use.
Of which, only 10% qualify as our potential market. The PC market has
approximately 35 million units in use with another 10 to 15 million PCs sold
this year alone. Much bigger market I would say!
Of course, the PC version of the software is not going to be as capable as the
Amiga versions. Simply because of the restrictions of the PC hardware. For
example, the Amiga has both a multi-tasking operating system and hardware. The
PC has multitasking software, but the hardware can only handle one thing at a
time. Therefore, a simple task of playing an animation and preloading another
animation is not possible on the PC. For us at least, this is a critical
feature that is needed for multimedia delivery. Unfortunately, we have to
compromise.
Warmest Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.