Author Topic: Amiga made it possible  (Read 2977 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Shockwave

  • good/evil
  • Founder Member
  • DBF Aficionado
  • ********
  • Posts: 17414
  • Karma: 498
  • evil/good
    • View Profile
    • My Homepage
Amiga made it possible
« on: July 11, 2009 »
I was just browsing youtube for old Amiga stuff and I came accross this.
[youtube]c7O4xqRqhPY[/youtube]

It's an old promotional video from Newtek which advertises the video toaster hardware.
A lot of people, when they think of something to sum up the first memories of the Amiga would think of the Juggler demo or the Boing demo I guess, but this video really should be watched, the toaster hardware was quite capable of some really nice renderings, have a look and be honest, if there was an Amiga demo released these days with some of these effects inside it, you'd have to give it a thumb up eh?

I got quite nostalgic watching this anyway.
Shockwave ^ Codigos
Challenge Trophies Won:

Offline Moroboshisan

  • Senior Member
  • Amiga 1200
  • ********
  • Posts: 454
  • Karma: 18
  • C=64
    • View Profile
Re: Amiga made it possible
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009 »
[...] if there was an Amiga demo released these days with some of these effects inside it, you'd have to give it a thumb up eh?
I got quite nostalgic watching this anyway.
Amiga was one of the leading machine (still in use to date) to mess with Genlocks in a native way... It's 15kHz video mode suits perfectly so it's no clue that most productions decided to have such a great titler/multieffector with theis setups!

BTW, it would be nice to have a demo with some of those effects in realtime on a stock AGA machine... ECS could do the job aswell... no OCS please! :)

A typical setup to target should be a stock A500+[1MB-chip, ECS] or a KS3.1 equipped A1200/030@50Mhz/8MB-fast (040/060 are quite common among Amiga users, while PPC are too few as a target platform the % should drop for CGX/Picasso equipped machines... unless you rely on emulation E-UAE/WinUAE)

Organic and Silouhette transitions reminds me of "State of the Art" as well as Cycling Colors...
3D effects (rotating mapped cubes) can be quite common...

Which effects do you mean? Underwater effect "tunnel" ?

Offline Hotshot

  • DBF Aficionado
  • ******
  • Posts: 2114
  • Karma: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Amiga made it possible
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009 »
Unbelieveable!  :o :)

Offline benny!

  • Senior Member
  • DBF Aficionado
  • ********
  • Posts: 4384
  • Karma: 228
  • in this place forever!
    • View Profile
    • bennyschuetz.com - mycroBlog
Re: Amiga made it possible
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2009 »
Yeah ... and definately very scenish product ;-)
[ mycroBLOG - POUET :: whatever keeps us longing - for another breath of air - is getting rare ]

Challenge Trophies Won: