пн, 17 окт. 2022 г., 05:10 Andrew Randrianasulu <[email protected]>:
Because I monitor mame WIP thread I saw some news about Quantel Paintbox emulation in MAME (0) and then I randomly followed some links to other Quantel systems
Like HAL (basically like hardware compositor)
http://dexterslab2013.blogspot.com/2018/03/quantel-hal-video-compositing-sys...
99 layers of SD images or video, up to 15 min storage on 20 disk array!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4k15hpeGzBA
if you have half of hour you can watch this demo from 1997. Biggest thing so far for me? We are free to use old-fashioned optical effects in front of real camera too :)
(0) - https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=120292&page=...
update on restoring one of those boxes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TpEVfY07Js "DL250 Quantel HAL & Dylan Restored & Working!" all those 20 mechanical scsi drives were replaced by scsi emulators ... and .... it worked! Not completely realtime, but interestingly fast. vid itself is 1h long.