Newtek's VT5 and Amiga OS 4.1?

[Tomas]

AmigaPixel wrote:

 Hi all thought I post this subject after posted it in the Desktop video forum.

 I was hoping that If OS 4.1 and the Sam 440ep start selling more, even as a nich market that Newtek would port over the new VT5 to Amiga OS. Or allow a third party to do it. It doesn't seem like it would be to hard for a skilled programmer, especially since the new Amiga hardware has PCI slots. Speed Edit alone would be a prize on the Amiga, it is resolution independent. Any programmers out there have any thoughts on this and how practical this would be? :-D

The sam would be way too slow for that.

[Tomas]

KimmoK wrote:
@persia

You seem to ignore that VT was first on Amigas and it ran very well on 25Mhz Amigas & Z2 & Z3 slots & very little RAM.

But surely it might be too hard to turn WIntel philosophy SW back to Amiga philosophy.

But the new cards have a completely different design. They are designed to be used with high powered wintel computers.
The first cards was designed with Amiga in mind and thus ran fine with very little cpu or memory usage.
I am sure you could get something like that on the sam, but that would mean they would have to make some new toaster hardware and this would never happen as the cost is just too great considering the sam userbase.