Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!eugene!swarren From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Origins & Trivia Message-ID: <2203@convex.UUCP> Date: 19 Oct 89 15:43:43 GMT References: <1921@nigel.udel.EDU> Sender: news@convex.UUCP Reply-To: swarren@eugene.UUCP (Steve Warren) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 24 In article ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) writes: >Here are some other trivia questions for Old Timers. > >1) What was Kaleidoscope? Painted moving shapes all over the place. Sort of a self-playing color organ. Interesting for a little while (when the 1000 came out it was amazing) >2) What hardware audio capability does the 1000 have that the 2000 and >500 don't? (It relates to powering up...) "BEE-DEE-BODY-BOO-DEE-BODOT" power-up melody. >3) What was Brataccas, and why should Psygnosis never be taken seriously >again as punishment? I thought Brataccas was pretty cool (but I didn't buy it - it was too hard to control the character ;^). >4) What was the first commercially available paint program for the Amgia? Duh, I forget... You mean it wasn't Deluxe Paint? > >Lets see who can come up with the answers to these. > >-- Mike (An ex-1000 owner) Those were pretty easy, Mike, except I'm not sure about #4... --Steve (a current 1000 owner) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM