Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucla-cs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga news (genlock & lots more, *long* but juicy) Message-ID: <1272@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 19:53:17 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.1272 Posted: Fri Dec 19 19:53:17 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 21:55:41 EST References: <1272@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> <627@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <1115@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <2351@ncrcae.UUCP> <1139@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA Lines: 29 In article <1139@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >So what I was trying to convey, was that the people at Commodore who work with >the Amiga are interested in demo programs that make use of these capabilities, >to highlight the difference in some obvious and unequivocal manner. > >You know, something that snaps vertebrae when the two machines are sitting side- >by-side at a show, or your local computer shoppe. Something that makes the >little kids (in all of us) say 'I want that one, the one with the red clown!'. Ahh... creative one-upman-demo-ship. Actually, I'd say that right now, Apple is doing one of the best jobs of this with the IIGS. The 'international' flavor of the digitized speech ('bonjourno' etc.) is catchy. The rotating IIGS with the bouncing ball on the screen demo is pretty funny. Sure, the Amiga can do all of this, and probably better, BUT, I saw it on an Apple. Obviously Apple has more money to spend on having programmers bang out better demos to show off the machine (of course when all you have is 'demos' there's no real hardware or software out there what can you expect?). It looks like both Commodore and Atari are waiting to grab some good public domain stuff to use as demos, as they can't afford to spend real money on such frivolous (and quickly obsolete) efforts. That leaves them wide open for unfair comparisons. For example, compare the Amiga's 'female' speech with what you hear in the IIGS demo. One sounds like a machine, one like a tape recording. Never mind that there are programs out there for the Amiga that will do similar, I've never seen them in a typical in-store-demo. Oh well. Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa