From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 6, 2008 6:01:37 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Firewire support...

Mark;

On 6-Nov-08, at 5:15 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Hi Milton, I saw you were writing that you thought firewire would be  

priced at a premium eventually on more expensive Macs because of it`s  

superior rate of data transfer. Is there support for firewire cameras  

under such things as Bootcamp or only usb?

Not if the Mac doesn't have a FireWire port.

I`m writing as I`m  

unfamiliar with the capabilities of Intel Macs & I`m wondering what  

the future is for firewire cameras without Astro IIDC.

You'll have to put up with Apples crappy IIDC Drivers and then switch to QuickTime, which is slow, buggy and doesn't support anything over 8 bits video.

I know firewire  

won`t function through such things as Virtual PC for instance which I  

have.

Virtual PC was too slow, so they didn't port the FireWire Stack over.

Is Astro IIDC really becoming less viable with the supplanting  

of firewire on some models of Macbook.

Yes - think extinction. Since Steve announced "You don't need FireWire", sales of all out FireWire products are now zero.

Do you still see a market with  

the remaining models of Macs that have firewire?

No I don't. Why would anyone spend over a thousand dollar for a camera when Steve is going to remove FireWire from all products?

I know this is a  

testy subject for you especially with Job`s avowal of usb as  

firewire`s possible successor. I`m wondering if there would be any  

alternative to buying a PC as support for my present & prospective  

firewire cameras without your software?

All the PC products I've seen aren't very good. Things like live flats, live darks and 16 bit recording support simply don't exist on the Pc side. Most IIDC cameras are used for machine vision on windows.

Milton J. Aupperle