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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Desktop Audio and Video => Topic started by: tekmage on May 10, 2024, 04:05:44 AM

Title: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: tekmage on May 10, 2024, 04:05:44 AM

Hi All,

I'm reconstructing an A4000D with a Toaster and Flyer.  As I run into problems (Center Frequency), I search the web for the procedure.  I'm finding all the sites I've used have vanished.  Here are two examples of sites I look:

http://www.rabayjr.com/Amiga/Flyer_Faq/toaster/tnr.html (http://www.rabayjr.com/Amiga/Flyer_Faq/toaster/tnr.html)
https://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28195 (https://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28195)

I've dug through archive.org, and some of the NewTek forum posts have been captured, but many have been lost.

This drove several thoughts:
1) Is there a trove of Toaster/Flyer knowledge that I've not been able to find using Google?
2) How can we capture this data so that 30 or 40 years from now, there is some hope of keeping a Toaster/Flyer running long into the future?

If anyone has a saved copy of the procedures, can you post them here?

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari
www.amiwest.net (http://www.amiwest.net)

Title: Re: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: David Wright on May 11, 2024, 03:05:30 AM

I have the big binder manual. Would that be helpful?

Title: Re: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: Pyromania on May 12, 2024, 12:24:07 AM

http://www.discreetfx.com/Manuals.html

Title: Re: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: tekmage on May 12, 2024, 05:19:11 AM

I did some digging in the Wayback machine, and I found a valid copy of the Rabayjr site!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120819194435/http://www.rabayjr.com/Amiga/Flyer_Faq/flyer/fa4000.html

I plan on downloading a copy locally to preserve a copy. 

Next, to find an alternate of the critical Newtek stuff.

Cheers,
Bill

Title: Re: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: jaiyenjohn on September 10, 2025, 03:46:03 AM

Not sure for how long, but all the old Amiga Toaster Flyer forums from NewTek are still online, just buried at Vizrt's site. Download them while you can!

Forum: https://forum.vizrt.com/index.php?forums/amiga-video-toaster-flyer.91363/ (https://forum.vizrt.com/index.php?forums/amiga-video-toaster-flyer.91363/)

FAQ and Tech Documents: https://forum.vizrt.com/index.php?forums/amiga-video-toaster-flyer-faqs.91408/ (https://forum.vizrt.com/index.php?forums/amiga-video-toaster-flyer-faqs.91408/)

Title: Re: Calling all past and present Toaster/Flyer users!
Post by: VmanJeff on October 07, 2025, 04:10:52 PM

I have  “Joe Tracy’s Flyer Mastery Guide”, all the 4000 Video Toaster and Flyer manuals and other printed guides. They’re all in binders right up on my shelf! Have often wondered about the copyright issues or otherwise if I scanned them and posted somewhere. There really does need to be at least one place where any interested party can go to get the old information