Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!pmk 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 Message-ID: <1327@rwthinf.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:45:16 GMT Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Reply-To: pmk@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Keukert) Organization: Informatik RWTH Aachen Lines: 38 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 PMK@CIP-S01.INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE ! Warning! UNIX-Newcomer! Michael Keukert of 2:242/2 (Fido-Net) ! No flames please .... PMK@EIKO.ZER (Zerberus-Net) ! ... I'm still learning.