A Place in History

[JimS]

One of the defining moments of the Amiga was the 'desktop video' industry. We sold lots of Amigas with Genlocks and later Toasters to people doing wedding videos and such. It was kinda awkward in those days, with all the decks and controllers. It's so much easier now that you can do all of it inside the computer. :-)

[JimS]

In many ways the old Atari's programmable DLI's (Display List Interupts) were a forerunner to the Amiga's Copper.

A lot of the programs I wrote for the Atari 8-bit took advantage of DLI's.

Same here. I wrote something for the Atari called "Cutelabels" that used DLI's to change the pallette on a custom multi mode display. Fun stuff. :-)