> I still don’t understand why the Video Toaster succeeded on the Amiga and why the software and add on cards didn’t make a successful jump onto PCs and Macs.
Well eventually the PCs replaced the Amiga and the Unix workstations for all the video effects.
But back when the Amiga came out (1985), and then five years later Video Toaster (1990), PCs were still running... DOS. And Apple was still mostly selling monochrome Mac computers (I've got a Macintosh Classic at home which came out in late 1990 and it's still got a monochrome screen).
And 1990 is when it came out: developers had to start working on it before 1990. PCs were simply, back then, complete turds?
I was there and fully remember moving from my Amiga to a 386 PC. This fells like taking a step backwards of several years.
The Amiga was a machine way ahead of its time for its price.
I don't see how that'd have worked before Windows NT (1993) or Windows 95 (1995). As I remember it it's only half a decade later, around 1996, when 3DS Max came out, that people began to take the PC half-seriously for this kind of stuff.
Well eventually the PCs replaced the Amiga and the Unix workstations for all the video effects.
But back when the Amiga came out (1985), and then five years later Video Toaster (1990), PCs were still running... DOS. And Apple was still mostly selling monochrome Mac computers (I've got a Macintosh Classic at home which came out in late 1990 and it's still got a monochrome screen).
And 1990 is when it came out: developers had to start working on it before 1990. PCs were simply, back then, complete turds?
I was there and fully remember moving from my Amiga to a 386 PC. This fells like taking a step backwards of several years.
The Amiga was a machine way ahead of its time for its price.
I don't see how that'd have worked before Windows NT (1993) or Windows 95 (1995). As I remember it it's only half a decade later, around 1996, when 3DS Max came out, that people began to take the PC half-seriously for this kind of stuff.