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From: pmk@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Keukert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A talk show for the AMIGA
Keywords: Amiga TV-show startest
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:45:16 GMT
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Reply-To: pmk@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Keukert)
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Another glimpse of our machine in the TV.

The german television ZDF (i.e. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (= 2. German Channel)) has a new show (which seems to be invented by the ZDF and not one of these
importet shows), in which a prominent person, a start, a well-known showmaster
or a politician is tested by a computer.
 
This computer is mounted with a monitor and a tv-camera on a kind of
robot-arm and can move around, just like the star who is sitting on a
couch can face the whole thing.
It looks something like this:

	   x
         xx xx
       xx    Camera(
     xx         x
   xx         Monitor       star
   xx         Monitor       star
   xx          Keyboard      xx
   xx                     starstar chair
   xx                    starstars chair

The (visual) part of the questioning computer is, yes, you're right, an
AMIGA 500. And the screen animations, gadgets, icons and many more seems
to be made with an amiga-system including frame-grabber and digitizer.

The computer makes a kind of psycho-test with the star. Free assoziating 
(Comp: It is green.  Star: Otto Schily (a german politician of the 
oekologist (green) party) Comp: It is loud. Star: Nina Hagen (a german
punk singer)), Question&answer games (What three questions you like to
ask Humphrey Bogart) and other games.
 
Let's see if it becomes a hit...

PS: The show is called StarTest

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