I'm not a heavy programmer but I'm wondering if this is something worth talking about. I think Firewire is slated to be added to the Amiga OS in 4.1 or so. With ArakAttack and PCI bus cards it could be useful to have a 1394/Firewire stack now.
With the recent release of the Toaster Flyer software it could be really useful to have access to really fast drives and digital video cameras via Firewire.
My personal feeling is that the measure of a platform today (no longer custom chipsets and multitasking since everyone has fast hardware and some version of that) is connectivity in both software suites and access to cheap, available, fast hardware peripherals.
With Firewire access and development of the Flyer source into something cheap or free that could access it classic, emulated and new Amigas would have non-linear video editing for what it costs more than $500 (software cost) on other platforms. (not to mention just being up to speed from a consumer's point of view)
Thanks...
