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Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties
« on: July 15, 2008, 02:11:34 AM »
Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.

This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits.


The larger goal of this contest is to stimulate development of video editing and video production software for MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.0 & AROS. This also allows us to see which 3rd party developer base is most passionate and serious about bringing their favorite operating system of choice back into the mainstream. Dedication and passion is what will bring Amiga successor operating systems back into relevance not mysterious companies who's true motives are unknown. Once upon a time with Video Toaster the Amiga was king of desktop video and computer assisted video editing. While in today's modern times it can no longer be king it could yet again be one of the many choices customers consider. That at least was the hope and dream we had when Open Video Toaster was launched. If your interested in video editing living again on Amiga OS type systems please donate to one of your favorite operating system bounties. DiscreetFX has already placed a starter donation in each of these bounties. Even if you can only donate a little it will help and you will be named and thanked on the Open Video Toaster website. Donations are paid instantly via Paypal to programmers that are assigned each bounty.

First three of many OVT Instant Bounties are for the Toaster Character Generator

Port ToasterCG to AROS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. AROS CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX

Port ToasterCG to Amiga OS 4.0 and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. OS 4.0 CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX

Port ToasterCG to MorphOS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. Morph CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX

ToasterCG source code is available from the following website. http://www.openvideotoaster.org

Please watch the DiscreetFX website for donation buttons later tonight.
 

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Re: Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 03:22:39 AM »
Paypal buttons for these bounties are now on the Open Video Toaster Site, donate whatever you are able to if your interested in video editing for Amiga OS 4.0, AROS & MorphOS.
 

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big money for me!
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 06:44:43 AM »
Assign all the bounties to me, then wait 5 years before asking me where my output is. ;-)
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Re: big money for me!
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 12:49:27 AM »
@Pyromania


I wish you guys got the Amiga IP, instead of Amiga Inc. :-(


Good luck with this.
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Re: big money for me!
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 11:00:30 AM »
Thanks for the continuing ideas that support further work on Amiga and "Amiga-Like" systems and applications.

Too bad the source code to the Amiga version of Lightwave 5.0 was not released as Open Source as well as the other parts of the Toaster/Flyer source code.  I would love to see it updated with features from the PC/Mac versions of 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, etc. Lightwave.
How are you helping the Amiga community? :)
 

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Re: big money for me!
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2008, 02:09:26 PM »
Your right amigadave, it is a bummer that LightWave 3D on Amiga is not being updated. You could buy Aladdin 4D though from a company I won't mention, LOL.

That at least is being updated and modernized. Also, it understands and works with the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer.
 

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Re: Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2008, 11:01:31 PM »
I take it that all the source has not yet been sucessfully compiled for AmigaOS 3.x; is anyone working on any sort of a 'roadmap' for this?
 

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Re: Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2008, 06:44:09 AM »
@hardlink

You just guessed the next Open Video Toaster bounty, someone needs to setup up directions & examples for compiling, IDE info etc.
 

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Re: Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2008, 04:56:00 PM »
Hmm, looks like I'll have to order the Open Video Toaster CD-ROM.

Looong ago, I got an email response from Stuart Ferguson when I asked how Lightwave was developd. If  I remember correctly, it was just a sraight SAS/C development environment. Not surprising, since LW does not need assembly for any hardware interaction ( except for maybe a LightRave :)