Source of Amiga Video Toaster Software Released

bender writes "About a decade after the release of of the NewTek Video Toaster for the Amiga, OpenVideoToaster is now hosting the source code of the software! The Video Toaster ushered in the age of affordable desktop video in 1991 and was used in products such as Babylon 5 and Jurassic Park."

Rumors

[frenetic3]

this is the same device CNN allegedly used to spruce up their Gulf War footage [pennandteller.com] :)

god bless america...

-fren

Huh, care to explain?

[snofla]

cg/readme.polite: "One of NewTek's requirements in releasing the complete source code for the Toaster and Flyer was that any rude or potentially offensive language in the original text based material be politely modified or removed." WTF?!

...big deal

[Dan Farina]

I'm waiting for TURRICAN!

Re:Can it be reused ?

[grolschie]

Does the Linux kernel even have support for raw bread devices e.g. /dev/muffin ??

Re:Huh, care to explain?

[HeghmoH]

cg/readme.polite: "One of NewTek's requirements in releasing the complete source code for the Toaster and Flyer was that any rude or potentially offensive language in the original text based material be politely modified or removed." What the heck?!

Well gosh, I sure don't see a problem with that....

Re:I thought Amiga was deader than BSD

[root:DavidOgg]

You shouldn't. We're pretty picky about who we let in. You're not invited :D

Boing

[Anonymous Coward]

It's always a beautiful day when you see the ball on /.

Re:What's the license?

[thellamaman]

Who cares? It's available on the Internet, that means you should be able to do what you want with it. Right?

Re:You are wrong Screenshots of MorphOS look here

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, why would you even want to run "old Amiga programs"?

Because nothing gives an Amiga user a hard-on like rendering a chessboard in Lightwave.

Oh, it's PRODUCTION software?!

[Stupid White Man]

I first read that and thought to myself "Who gives a crap about that Win 95 Plus Pack Flying Toasters screensaver?"

I need to lay off the crack for a while.

Wait....

[linuxdawg]

I thought the toaster was Toast??....

Re:Can it be reused ?

[Ziviyr]

That a toaster can take video from a kitchen sync and superimpose the results of blender on it.

Well, it isn't all that far fetched.

Cinelerra

[DrunkenPenguin]

It is interesting piece of software, but if you want a true professional video editing software for your Linux box, I suggest you use Cinelerra. It's an amazing software - equivalent to something that would probably cost hundreds of thousand dollars - and yes, it is open source.

Find some more information here [heroinewarrior.com] .