DPS-PAR (animation recorder)

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Does anybody know what drives currently work well with the DPS Personal Animation Recorder board.  DPS has been absorbed by another company and doesn't seem to have any support for thier products for the Amiga.  The last list I had of reccomended drives is old and outdated.  When I bought it the highest reccomended drive at the time was a big Micropolis drive.  With all the advances in IDE drives I would guess there are a lot of units out on the market that would do the trick nicely.  

I was thinking that there must be somebody out there that has one of these and has been through this  already.  The Micropolis I have is a little over a GB and will hold 18 minutes of animation.  I am thinking that a good 40GB drive would be all I would ever need.  I don't want to go and buy one just to learn that it won't perform properly for the DPS-PAR.  

Any help and advice on this would sure be appreciated.

Dave

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          Wow !!!  An answer to a post of over 10 months ago.  I do appreciate it though.  I had always suspected that a lot of different drives would work well but if you read the original documentation that came with the DPS PAR you would think that almost nothing would work.  I will give it a try.  BTW, welcome to Amiga.org.  


Dave

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[My question to you is have you ever been able to export with out corrupting the video or stills? My experience with my particular PAR has been that I CAN NOT archive the video to anything as the software interface between the PAR card and Amiga just simply was not 100%. I tried getting the PC PAR card, which is infinitely more difficult to use, even though it has more software. I tried mounting the Amiga drives to it, but the files names weren't compatable, since the PC PAR wanted 8.3 DOS format file names!!!



         Before we get into this too deep I need to tell you that I haven't had my Amiga stuff running for several years.  I am in the process of getting stuff together to do a bit of updating and modifying with better accelerator and controller cards and a catweasel.  Oh yeah, I forgot the the ethernet card so I can tie into my LAN as well as the internet.  

         As for you question I can't answer it because it has been a long time since I actually used the PAR.  I do remember that I needed a bigger hard drive but at the time I bought my par and drive it was about the best I could afford and that was $600.00.  Now that drives are bigger and cheaper I wanted to upgrade.  I also remember that for that time the video was great quality.  For what I was doing it filled the bill.  It's important to remember that at that time digital video was not available to the consumer as it is now.  I now have a Pinnicle DV board and Pinnicle Studio 8 software on my PC.  I want to get my Toaster, Amiga and all my DPS stuff working to use in conjunction with Studio 8 and the PC.    I am about to start on the Amigas so I will be watching the forum closer than I have been.  I am sorry I could not be of help in answering your question.  I try to answer any responses to any of my posts because I want to establish as many contacts as I can.  I will need all the help I can get when I get into getting all this stuff up and running.  Thank you for your response and information.

Dave