The 20th century was clearly more fun

Yet another find for the "connoisseur". 

It appears that in the 1990s, not only C coders, but also video hardware geeks had a good sense of humour, and since they were both German, they naturally shared the same field of activity in that regard.

We have no reports if the "dirty" text file in question actually enhances the performance of the VLab Motion video capture card. It is very likely, though, that - where allowed - it did enhance the performance of the video editor.

;-)

A text file that improves video editing?

 

P.S.: Regardless, it's still the best video capture card for the Amiga, and as a consequence, it's a perfect manual. You can find it here: https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/vlabmotion

Amiga C code for adults

Someone made a delicate little mistake when sending his C code to the publisher in 1990... 

Ah, good old German humour. Thankfully, no reference to the "adult" function in question could be found throughout the book, so it doesn't result in "premature failure" when bedtime-coding your "Amiga".

The dual-Blitt() function may cause some trouble, though, not just because it's dual, but also because no reference to BlittLine() could be found either. 

;-)

This C code is for grown-ups only.

P.S.: Pssst, it's still a great book, you can find it here:
https://archive.org/details/grafik-in-c-auf-dem-amiga/

Amiga, and the power of Linux audio

A modern Linux audio system is incredibly powerful. It makes it super easy to route audio output from an Amiga emulator into any audio application.

Sadly, AmigaOS doesn't have such a powerful audio system. Linux has come a long way in terms of audio systems, from OSS to ALSA and JACK, to what is probably the current state of the art, named pipewire. Pipewire unifies the software interfaces of ALSA and JACK - which means that now applications using any of the two systems can seamlessly be connected. Which makes it possible to just route the audio from an Amiga emulator - e.g. fs-uae - into your preferred Linux audio software. An application like QJackCtl provides a nice GUI to visually manage the connections.

An emulated Amiga provides some speech synthesis to Linux.

In this case, the emulated Amiga was used to provide some of his (her) characteristic "say" speech synthesis to an audio production created with ardour DAW.

But one can imagine many more use cases for such a setup:

- directly record Amiga music into your Linux DAW or video editing application

- real-time enhance emulated Amiga's audio via Linux: adjust stereo separation, add compression, add EQ, ...

- analyze Amiga audio output without analog interference

- experiment with multiple emulators / instances

Some of this can obviously be done with e.g. an emulator's record-to-WAV or record-to-video functions, but it's still a nice option to just be able to use Amiga's audio in real-time, without any conversion, in any audio application, and of course without the need for any additional hardware.

[ If you're interested in the result: The Amiga's voice can be heard in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBf42SgbA7s ]