Will Video Toaster work with A1?

[weirdami]

Does anyone know if the Video Toaster and Video Toaster software (Lightwave included, but the switcher, etc. in particular) will work with AOS4 and/or the Amiga One.

Same question for AOS5 and any of these new fangled A1-spec hardwares that people think or say are coming around the corner.

[Tahoe]

You're probably refering to the Toaster PCI? The A1 does not have a videoslot.... That rules out the toaster 2000/4000.

No word from Newtek; and personally I think the market is waaaaay too small, it will not justify the money it would take to port it.
(be honest; Amiga 1 / OS4 is not and will never be a platform even 1% of the classic amiga market; let alone the mac or Windows environment)

[Paradox]

no

[weirdami]

(be honest; Amiga 1 / OS4 is not and will never be a platform even 1% of the classic amiga market; let alone the mac or Windows environment)

wow, like,  :roll:

[weirdami]

@Paradox

not even never?

[SyrTran]

weirdami wrote:
Does anyone know if the Video Toaster and Video Toaster software (Lightwave included, but the switcher, etc. in particular) will work with AOS4 and/or the Amiga One.

Same question for AOS5 and any of these new fangled A1-spec hardwares that people think or say are coming around the corner.

Well, as Tahoe mentioned, the Amiga Video Toaster only fits in an Amiga video slot, which the A1 doesn't have.  The Toaster Flyer needs a Zorro II slot which, again, is missing on the A1. The software also won't work on an A1, as the shipped version of the software requires a Toaster card before it will even initialize.

Therefore, it will need OS4 on a classic Amiga.  That depends  on whether the CSPPC/BPPC version of OS4 shows up, or whether ACK gets his PowerVixxen LT out and OS4 works on that. (Or, maybe, DCE finds Phase5's plans for their G3/G4 card - Firestorm, was it? - and starts building those.)

-Then- one or more determined coders has to find out if the Toaster software will even -run- without violating OS4's new memory protection.  If not, the source -is- available, and some of the previously mentioned determined coders will have to port it, and they'd better know 68K assembler.

Since the source is available, a programmer with SAS/C and Devpak could try compiling the Toaster-free version of the software, but I don't know if it will be useful in any way, as the Toaster hardware does a lot of the work.

OTOH, I recall seeing one or two posts that the non-Toaster version of Lightwave -does- run on OS4.  The people who did that -may- have had to patch over the dongle code to do it.

I personally found out that the Lightwave Screamernet rendering software does work on OS4.

[tonyvdb]

Nope, The Toaster and Flyer was made to run on an Amiga only and will not ever be ported over to the A1 as there are fewer A1's around then even the A3000 or 4000. Newtek would never spend the money to do that, its not a cost effective way to go. If you really want to use the Video toaster on a non amiga then it in your best interest to get the PC based version the VT4 by Newtek and use it.

[Pyromania]

As mentioned the hardware will not work with the A1 but the source-code is available and could be adapted to work with OS 4.0.

Source-code available @

www.openvideotoaster.org