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»Exodus Multimedia is pleased to announce the first AmigaNG-powered digital video workstation, Maverick! While still in the design and engineering stage, we have committed to delivering this exciting new concept to the video industry. Our decision to proceed with this project was reached after a private meeting with Jeff Schindler and Darreck Lisle at the St.Louis Amiga show. After talks with Amiga Inc. which lasted into the early hours of the morning, it was decided that the new OS offers significant advantages over other operating systems, in terms of size, speed, reliability and flexibility. From its inception, the AmigaOS was designed to handle full motion video, graphics and animation. The AmigaNG version promises to improve on this base technology and add features not seen on any other platform. Our current line of digital video workstations is based on Windows 98 and NT plus the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer. While we are very early into this project, we will provide more concrete specifications by summer's end. The tower case will be based on the current design used on our standard workstation, pictures of which can be seen on our web page at www.exodusmm.com.
"The Amiga has proven to be the leading OS for video production on a large and small scale. To this day, there are 15 year old Amigas still being used to do mainsteam video, while most other computing platforms are obsolete within two years. It is our goal to take Maverick into the 21st century with an OS and hardware capable of supporting new standards like HDTV, DV and MPEG-2 all with realtime video effects and transitions. The AmigaOS gives us that power!", said Stan Carver, President of Exodus Multimedia.
>From the last poll, there were over 7 million Classic Amigas sold to date. To show our support for the Classic Amigas, we have been working with Mick Tinker of Access Innovation, a European company, to provide a state of the art solution that would allow current Amiga owners to take advantage of new technologies without sacrificing backwards compatibility. Based on specifications provided by Exodus Multimedia, the new motherboard will have a PowerPC processor, PCI slots and fast SDRAM, in addition to Amiga specific devices like Zorro slots and an high speed emulation of the custom chipset. Full Video Toaster and Flyer support will be provided as well. The use of new technologies will make way for devices currently on the Windows platform such as FireWire, USB, pro audio sound cards and high end graphics cards to be easily ported to the AmigaOS without having to redesign hardware. The new Amiga-powered Maverick should be available 3rd quarter 1999.
In the meantime, we have salesmen and service technicians that are fully capable of supporting the Amiga community, as we always have. We are now taking pre-orders for OS 3.5 and look forward to the new AmigaNG with all of it's possibilities. We will post details on our web page as we progress with this project- STAY TUNED!
You can visit Amiga Inc. at www.amiga.com.
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(Quelle: Exodus Multimedia; http://www.exodusmm.com/amiga/)
