Amiga Video Toaster in FPGA just like minimeg

[psxphill]

Is there enough documentstIn about what is in the original chips to figure out how to clone them?

You probably don't need to. You could probably reverse engineer the card by running the software under winuae, knocking up some code and testing it by feeding avi's in.

The fpga doesn't have to emulate every chip in exactly the same way as the original toaster. The minimig doesn't even do that for the amiga custom chips.

The video input couple for an fpga video toaster could be HDMI.

[psxphill]

I still use a Newtek product called Speed Edit for my current HD video editing on a PC but it is not a live switcher so that part for me is lost.

For most people, live editing was only really beneficial when it was impractical to do offline editing.

I used to be a cameraman on a 4 camera setup and that was usually edited live, but all the cameras also ran tapes in case a mistake ruined the edit.

You do run the risk of perfectionism creeping in with offline editing.

If you are broadcasting live then obviously you need live switching. The Roland V-4EX looks quite nice, though it can't process 1080p.

[psxphill]

and only used it as long as they had to before NT decoupled the software from the hardware,

Or at least until Lightrave came out surely.

[psxphill]

Virtualization is a bit more - and less - than emulation.

Originally virtual machines covered emulating enough to run multiple operating systems on one computer. One of the requirements was that it was efficient, which pretty much precludes emulating the cpu. The 68000 didn't support virtualisation, but the 68010 did (i.e. MOVE from SR became privileged).

So for running windows on an intel mac you can use virtualisation software like VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. If you want to run windows on a power pc mac you need to run an emulator like Virtual PC 7

The term virtual machine has been used incorrectly over the years though, which muddies that water a little. The Java Virtual Machine for instance. It's not a real virtual machine in a lot of ways, but the name stuck. Technically all "operating systems" should be running under a hypervisor and not have any access to the hardware, this is largely impractical now though down to how operating systems and device drivers are developed. Windows Hyper-V Server is realistically the closest you can get.