Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Director Demos, etc. Message-ID: <12025@cup.portal.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 12:04:12 GMT References: <11744@cup.portal.com> <9029@gryphon.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18 Thanks, Keith, for the detailed description of The Director's evolution! For the record, the FIRST demo *I* usually show off is Probe_Sequence along with my narration (I've gotten pretty good at it by now! :-) My comment re: demos shown at dealers was not an idle one. At busy dealerships, people aren't going to wait minutes to boot up a demo from a floppy(ies), they NEED to be able to quickly initiate whatever it is they want to show, implying use of a HD. Though Director-based animations I've seen multi-task well (e.g. the system is as it was when the demo is ended), the need to boot from floppies for certain demos tends to belie the multi-tasking aspect of the Amiga. Sigh. Maybe some BADGE people could assist the beta-testing of your product(s). Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]