10-17-2003, 02:49 AM
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Originally posted by Baal
I've looked a bit and have made some progress, but some of the better leads seem to be the actual manufacturers of the tools that did video compression back then (1983-1989). Apple II utils, Mac utils, and possibly C64 utils, Atari 400 and 800 and whatever else came next, and Amiga utils.
Amiga had a HUGE video digitizing, editing, and distribution (BBS) scene in the late 80s, so that's probably the best bet (even though I was never a part of that scene). The first Amiga came out in Sept. 1985, and gained a massive BBS support userbase; surely backups of those must exist. Unfortunately, CDRoms were a fairly new thing for computers in 1988 (I never saw one before 1988), but I'm sure the Amiga fanbase out there have a lot of proof of prior art.
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Yes the Amiga was the first and best multimedia computer, I dont remember when I got my Amiga 500 but if someone was playing videos back then it was the Amiga crowd 
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