--------------------------------------------------------------------- Visualisation Plug-Ins for AMPlifier ------------------------------------ After final testing period and documentation it's ready now! Have a look for it at Aminet next days or better visit our page now to look at some screenshots! Everybody who was asking why to take a Melody1200 sounboard with DSP if there is a 060 or PowerPC in the machine should again become more silent now! AMPlifier got a powerfull Plug-In interface for talking to external programms to perform nice-to-see analyses of sound. This kind of stuff is known from PC Player WinAMP. As we even want YOU to do the Plug-Ins, the code for one nice Plug-In is available. Maximum energy was spend to make Plug-Ins as easy as possible to do without limiting their power. Have a look at the Software Development Kit located on the page (SDK) to do own Plug-Ins. The Plug-Ins are external programms or even applications which are docking to a re-entrant cappable library activated by AMPlifier. Re-entrant means it's possible to start an unlimited number of effects if the CPU is fast enough! If Melody 1200 PRO or Plus is used, all the power of the machine may be spend for rendering hungry Plug-Ins. If the boards are used, AMPlifier makes use of their feature to readback digital decoded MPEGs as RAW data to prevent delays. When having a look at PC it's allready known some Plug-Ins are like Plasma-Demos and are eating tons of CPU-Power. The premium machine for Plug-Ins currently is PowerUP/BVision/Melody1200PRO based A1200! Next you'll even be able to use Melody 1200 at a Zorro-Machine, and extend with Digital-IO, too. PS: For first Kick 3.1 is requirement for both Plug-Ins shown because no alternative rendering routines for <3.1 are implemented. -- Kato Development High-Performance Group Hardware for Amiga mailto:katodev@usa.net http://kato.home.pages.de