#MAC Version of Toaster?
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I am wondering if anybody knows if Newtek plans on offering a version of the
toaster for the macintosh platform.
Doug, I'm not from Newtek, but I've seen this question here MANY times. The
standard reply is that Newtek will never make a Toaster for either Mac or PC.
Something about the custom Amiga chips makes the Toaster do-able. They claim
any other platform makes it very difficult (expensive?) to do. They do offer
products which automate the process of controlling an Amiga based Toaster
system from the Mac. I'm not very familiar with the product so someone else
here might give you more information. I think that the product is called
ToasterLink. I think it also automates transferring images between the Mac and
Amiga/Toaster to allow image processing to be done on the Mac.
Terry Tabor
Thanks for the information. I've owned an earlier Amiga platform and I now own
a MAC and I think the Apple is a better made product. I would probably still
own an Amiga if their was sufficient software available despite the quality.
It's hard to beat the bang for the buck you get with the Amiga.
I just have this feeling that the Amiga platform will not survive in the
future, except as a platform for the toaster. I feel that eventually Newtek
will come out with its own platform. Even now, you don't hear about the
Amiga…you just hear about the toaster. Maybe you can answer one more
question. Do you know if the Amiga is going to take advantage of the PowerPC
processor?
Thanks Again,
Scott
Scott, I don't know about the Power PC. Commodore has always been pretty tight
lipped about what they're going to do next.
Terry Tabor
The Toaster is realy made for Video not for a computer, but a Toaster
system, will read and write Pict2 files as well as ASCII, onto IBM
formated 1.44 disks, so you could read them through Apple file exchange or
equal.
Forrest
So I can take files created in an application such as photoshop and import
those into the toaster to be used as graphics for a production?
Correct in two difrent ways.
First of all out of PhotoShop you can now save IFF24 images, or any
Pict2. writ that onto a IBM formated High Density Floppy, using AFE or
equivilant. Bring that into the A4000 Toaster, (make sure the cross dos
PC0: is in your Devs drawer, or runing). Then if it is in IFF24, go into
Toaster Paint or LW3D and use load RGB, to bring it in. If you saved in a
PICT2, basicly you bring hte disk in the same way, then you run Toaster
Paint, go to a shell and use the READPICT program that comes with the
Toaster, to read the Pict file into Toaste paint.
This works very well, the only drawback is the time it takes to write
then read from a floppy, if you need to do alot of images some typeof
networking would be best.
One warning, if the image is going to be displayed in one of the Toaster
DV's the Image needs to be 752×480, and you will have to adjust aspect to
make it look right for video (this can be done in PhotoShop).
Forrest
Thanks for the input.
Scott
Forrest,
could you describe the exact Photoshop settings needed (size, aspect etc…) in
order to make something composed on the MAC in Photoshop come out looking as
expected in the toaster. Also the exact format settings used during the save
process.
thanks,Brian
THe exact size is 752 width by 480 high, I have the aspect writen down and
will let you know.
Forrest
Amiga Toaster images have a 1.1:1 pixel aspect ratio, so the key thing to
remember is to stretch your Mac images by 110% in the horizontal axis.
A good way to check this out is to transfer a bitmap with a perfect circle
from the Mac to the Amiga. The Mac generated circle will appear stretched
in the vertical axis.
Have fun!
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom