I just got digi-paint...wow !!!

[pwermonger]

I actually have one of the Opalvision Video Editing sets. Unfortunately it causes the Amiga not to boot. Dont know what part is causing the problem and someday will try transferring the Roaster chip and the rest piece by piece to a known working Opalvision card I have since, I suspect, it more likely a bad Opalvision card would cause the Amiga to fail on self test instead of the rest of it.
 
I never had a Digi-View but was always impressed by what they could do back then. I ended up getting a Mimietics Framebuffer since it could display as well as grab in full NTSC images output from VistaPro, Imagine, and even with ArtPro you could send anything to it. As for Digi-Paint, I always hated HAM paint programs. Used Deluxe Paint mostly. Tried otu Photon paint, then moved to Brilliance. The Framebuffer had a paint program designed for it, uPaint I think it was, that allowed you to paint the NTSC images to the Framebuffer by using the trick of it being in black and white on the native Amiga screen until send back to the Framebuffer.
 
Much later I got Opalvision, much easier obviously with its paint program and drawing direct to the display. Then a DMI Resolver board that has a paint program that actually runs on the board and was very fast, not tied into the Amiga for its speed. later in my quest for Amiga goodness I got the external "boxes" that enhanced the Amiga display. Ham-E which is hard to find since they came and went from the market so fast, DCTV and Graffiti.

[pwermonger]

Awesome! Not many of the OpalVision Editing Suites made it out to market. Would like to see one in action.

I would love to see one also since I have a working Video Toaster 4000 as well. Would be nice to compare the two though not a complete comparison since the Opalvision software was never completed nor as updated as Toaster.
 

I have one of those Mimtecs FrameBuffers. Damn thing ran so hot I had to put heatsinks and a fan on the ram chips to keep the A2000 from failing. Needed a seperate display monitor if I recall.

Yes, Mimetics framebuffer was exactly that, a simple NTSC framebuffer. It has an RCA composite in and out and all software control is done using software running, and displayed, on the Amiga using its standard screen. That's why uPaint ran on the Amiga in black and white (or HAM another thing that I havent used in ages so I dont recall) then rendered over to the Framebuffer. I never had an issue with the RAM overheating. My original card was an early one with no backplane. I ordered the capture option and when installed that caused it not to work. So I sent it back to them for repair, by then no longer Mimetics, and they mistakenly sent me back two Mimetics Genlocks. I sent those back since they had messed up and I ended up getting a brand new card. All for only the money I paid for the capture option. I mainly used it with AdPro to send pictures to the card. I think there was a version of an image display program that natively displayed to it but I dont recall it offhand.
 
Oh, one amusing thing was, when it displayed an image my parents would get a ghost of the image on the TV downstairs depending on what channel they were watching.
 

Friend of mine back in the day had a DMI Resolver. That was an awesome display card also. Way before RTG. Tricky to set up. Made World Construction set real nice to work with.

DMI Resolver is seriously neat, for the day. Very fast for a display like that at that time. Too bad they never got real RTG to it. It's price pretty much meant it wasnt too popular. I got it much later on for $25 and its sitting in my 3000UX which I hope to eventually get Unix installed on to see if it works with the Resolver like its works with the 2410.