Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!bscott From: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Summary: Barrett: Amiga Pinhead or Apple plant? Message-ID: <3471@pikes.Colorado.EDU> Date: 29 Mar 90 10:38:06 GMT References: <1994@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott) Organization: University of Colorado, Denver Lines: 32 Remember also that the 6502s Apple is crowing about were the very heart and soul of... you guessed it, your friend and mine, the Commodore 1541! Marc has repeatedly claimed he has 'pure motives for stirring up trouble' here. I doubt there is such a thing as a pure motive for causing problems. I use the Amiga to do freelance animations for a video post-production house. I'm not an artist; 99% of my work is mechanical flip-n-tumble of the corporate logo and such. But one real advantage of the Amiga that almost NO other system can aspire to is REAL-TIME animation. Even the very highest-end systems do not do this very well; most of the fancy animation you see is single-frame recorded on to videotape. This makes for fine animation, but is not so great when you have a client sitting in your studio asking what you can do for him. Nothing compares to booting up DPaint III, roughing out something in 5 minutes and showing him what he's getting for his $60/hr or more... On a related topic, I have a request: I need a videotape or print versions of the infamous Mac 'Helocar' commercial. I am planning the "Helocar Killer" demo, and have many of the necessary primitives done or at least thought-out. It involves the Mac Helocar slowly taking off at a whole 3 frames-per-second (about all the Mac in the commercial could manage) and just as it's about to fly, in comes a futuristic antigrav-powered Amiga car which shoots the Mac into dust with twin Boing-ball cannons... trouble is, I've forgotten what the Helocar looks like. If anyone has a source for a picture, please mail me. . <<<>>> -- _______________________________________________________________________________ | | | Someday, I'm going to make up a clever .sig file like everyone else has... | |_____________________________________________________________________________|