Amiga Video Toaster in FPGA just like minimeg

[Pyromania]

Can it be done? Even if it was the original more limited Video Toaster 2000 card at first? Sounds like a hot new project for Dennis or someone else. We have a free Video Toaster 4000 card up for grabs for a hardware hacker that wants to take a stab at it.

[Pyromania]

Since almost all video cameras sold now are digital I don't think a TBC is even needed. MiniDV, HDV, etc video cameras feed right into the Amiga Video Toaster, no TBC required.

[Pyromania]

It's almost a decade later so I'm asking again, can it be done?

[Pyromania]

@ Pyromania

What would be the point? Who still uses NTSC with (ex-)standard aspect ratio when most people carry all-digital high-definition widescreen cameras in their pockets?

The point is that great software that's available from 3rd party developers that's Video Toaster only that could be enjoyed by Amiga users. It's no longer about NTSC. Not to mention the awesome software package that came with the Video Toaster/Flyer itself. From a preservation standpoint and an opportunity to get a bunch of additional software running in a Amiga Virtual Machine that's interesting to study and use. You are right NTSC timing does not matter anymore and that would not be the point.

[Pyromania]

@Trev

Open Video Toaster is still available for Amiga fans to play with and enjoy. The code can be studied/updated by anyone with a "high tech brain", quote from the Revolution video.

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

[Pyromania]

If you are looking for live switching, we still sell a huge number of TriCasters. It's a decedent of the Video Toaster.

It's similar to the complete Amiga/Toaster systems that we sold back in the day, a turnkey system as opposed to a card and software.

I can vouch for NewTek's line of TriCasters. They are awesome and give the customer an excellent turn-key video workstation. One of the best live switchers money can buy.

[Pyromania]

If anyone has a Amiga Video Toaster up an running the developer of the open source Amiga Virtual Machine needs some assistance. He's looking for "sys:tools/showconfig debug" output from a running Amiga Video Toaster.

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1100595&postcount=66

[Pyromania]

Still, what is the point of using an FPGA for this?

If preservation is your goal, adding the required functionality to highly portable emulation software is surely the better move.

I 100% agree, it does not have to be FPGA based. Running it in an Amiga Virtual Machine would be fine.

[Pyromania]

What's with the newspeak? It is still UAE. "Amiga Virtual Machine" would be a nice description for running MacOS under Shapeshifter or Fusion, where those two act as hypervisors and there is no/little CPU emulation. At least call it "Virtual Amiga Machine".

Amiga Forever, UAE, FS-UAE, and all the various versions of UAE are all Virtual Machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine

That's the industry standard terminology for what they are. They are marvels of software technical achievement and everyone that participates in their development/sales should be supported and commended. It allows many people to still run an Amiga that may not otherwise do it.