[Cin] offtopic: Quantel boxes

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

пн, 17 окт. 2022 г., 05:10 Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com>:

> 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-system.html?m=1
>
> 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=10
>



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.

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