Realtime FW DVcam grab and display on MacMiniG4/MorphOS

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FireWire (even FW 400, never mind 800) craps all over USB 2.0 from a great height.  Far from being dead-end, FireWire 3200 does the same to USB 3.0. In addition to being significantly faster, it's also backwards-compatible with the older standard, unlike USB 3.0 you can just plug a new FW 3200 device into an older FW 800 port and get the faster speed.

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Firewire is also used on almost all high-end external drives, like the two Lacie drives I have sitting here on my desk which replaced the USB 2.0 drive I had previously.  It's two to three times faster, with a fraction of the CPU usage.

Being able to connect these drives to my MorphOS machines too will be fantastic.

Given that firewire ports have been on every piece of MorphOS hardware (apart from Efika) since the Pegasos 1, it's been kind of ludicrous that there has been no firewire stack before.