MagicBox AlphaGen Character Generator

This is literally a modified Amiga A1200; the company would simply mount them into rack-mount cases, bundle them with graphics generation software, and sell them for thousands to TV stations. The unit itself is actually quite capable, given its minimal hardware; these have been used for a variety of tasks, including live weather broadcasts when paired with a special weather sensor module. This unit was owned by a local community TV station to run the town's bulletin board system. I will eventually fix it properly and make some more videos showing its capabilities.

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[thecooldude9999]

boreing... boreing... Guru meditation error! 

[bbishoppcm]

@thecooldude9999 Problem with my videos?

[bamdadkhan]

in the VCR video you said you won't say what town you live in. i guess you've changed your mind. ;)

[bbishoppcm]

@bamdadkhan Au contraire... the MagicBox was from a town in Massachusetts. I life in NH!

[rzsigray1]

verry neat...i bet you could run the system disk on winuae now that would be awesome

[singinglawnchair]

7AM's a little early for a wet T-shirt contest, don't you think? :P

[thecooldude9999]

@bbishoppcm no im talking about the bulletin bord that you called boreing. a guru meditation error is a fatal amiga software error

[petey815]

lol DINOSAURS!

street race! Bring your Civics, kids

honda scooter race (i gotta bring my ruckus :)

[ThePhoneUpdate]

Clutching at straws :) But have you tried Ctrl+S to save?

[Lachlant1984]

I know when I've visited a few people in hospital they sometime have on the overhead TV sets over the beds an information channel that mostly displays textual information, I suppose they would use a character generator like this one to display that information.