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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
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 19:53:17 1986
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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
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