Less than 12 Hours for a new Bounty to Toast all other bounty's

[amigadave]

Hmmmmmm,

Could it be a new bounty to get the open sourced Video "Toast"er software, including Lightwave5.x for the Amiga ported to AmigaOS4.x, AROS, & MorphOS2.x?

That would be something to "Toast", but as some have already written in the past, much of the Video Toaster code is badly commented and written, and also so tied to the original Amiga's custom chips that the original code is of little use to someone porting it (more like re-writing it from scratch).

I can't quite figure out what the number 12 would have to do with the above though.

Edit: Perhaps it is the open sourcing of the group of programs and updates to programs called "Millenium" and that there are 12 programs or updates included?  I would have to get my Millenium package out and count the number of programs it includes.

[amigadave]

Lemme Guess:
Tim Jennison is allowing the VT4 to be ported to Amiga os 4.1

Most, if not all the VT4 code has already been open sourced for a long time.

[amigadave]

The toaster is (AFAIK) NTSC-only, noone in civilized countries ever used NTSC (/runs) and everybody else stopped useing it some time ago.

So unless I'm missing something relevant to today's high-def TV-standard I'd say it's rather pointless.

The "Open Video Toaster" goal is also to update the old code, so there is nothing that would prevent adding other display frequencies and resolutions to this project.  The original Classic Amiga computers in North America (where the Video Toaster was invented) were all NTSC models, in a country where the only video standard of the time was NTSC, so it stands to reason that the original Video Toaster was aimed at the NTSC using consumers.  Although, I never did understand why NewTek did not also make a PAL version of the board, given that there were more Amiga users in countries using that standard than there were in the USA & Canada.  But none of that makes any difference now.  A new VideoToaster/Flyer on an FPGA based board, or PCI card could use what ever display resolutions & frequencies that make sense in today's world.

Recreating 20 year old software & hardware without updating it would have much less market appeal and less usefulness, but would not be completely useless.

[amigadave]

me too.

+1 = 3