#Toaster gets some ink
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I got the latest issue of Discover magazine yesterday and on the cover was
a reference to "video toaster". Sure enough on the inside is a one page
article about the Video Toaster and the Amiga. It's certainly nice to see
something from the Amiga community makes some ink in a national magazine
and one that's not even computer-specific.
Garry
It would be nicer to see teh Amiga get some credit when the Toaster is
reviewed or mentioned in Computer SPECIFIC magazines… like the trash bit
about the Toaster in the December Computer Shopper "In The Channel" piece.
– Whapp!ng from the North Coast Michael
I broke out in laughter when I read a reference to the Video Toa
ster in a
PC Magazine news release. They said you can buy this neato device for your
IBM computer that will let you do what $20,000 of professional video
equipment does for under $5,000! The picture shows the Video Toaster
hooked to an IBM PC, and the PC's monitor displays the Video Toster control
panels. No mention of Amiga, no mention that you are buying a whole
computer in that big box labeled Video Toaster, etc etc. Says you need an
IBM, and it hooks thru the serial port! What a laugh!
Joe,
Bringing 'em in the backdoor worked for Macs; maybe we should be silent
until the Toaster has helped Amigas to make it onto desks with "real"
computers. Then we can take an AmigaDOS disk, boot their "peripheral" up
into a REAL multitasking GUI OS and so 'em what we've been able to do all
along. So please try to contain your laughter; little do they know (what
an understatement!) that they will play into our hands.
One bright spot in the article, it mentioned that the MAC and PC couldn't
do what the Amiga does with video. I guess that some praise is better than
none.
Garry
Joe:
What we need now is a book of 'helpfull hints for using your Toaster with
your PC' with the first one being 'unhook the serial cable, get a copy of
AmigaDOS, and run the Toaster that way' Personally I see nothing wrong with
NewTek selling Amigas disguised as Toasters, because sooner or later the
folks with those machines will investigate the machine further, and
possibly find out that it's really an Amiga, and might even start using it
as such. Think of it, many PC users cringe when they hear Amiga or
Commodore, but tell them NewTek, or Toaster, and suddenly they have a much
more open mind!
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale
Joe–
When I first heard of NewTek's plans to hook up Amiga's to other platforms,
I thought, its like towing a Ferrari on an old tow truck…not the way that
it was meant to be driven…
Jonathan