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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
Message-ID: <2016@crash.cts.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 19:37:00 GMT
References: <1994@crash.cts.com> <3471@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <3471@pikes.Colorado.EDU> bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott) writes:
>
>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.
>
>.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

Dig thru your oldish issues of INFO, Ben... they had a little blurb on
a free 15 min. VHS tape that Apple's been giving out for a few months
which extolls the virtues of Mac "multimedia" stuff.  Most of the 
Helocar commercial animation is on that tape.  If you have an Amiga
Framegrabber you could just grab a frame (or even the whole animation)
of the Helocar, slap it into a paint program, cut out the pieces you
need, clean 'em up, and then add your Amiga antigrav Boing-cannon car,
sit back, and wait for Apple to come and sue you :-)

No, but all seriousness aside, there's an 800 number to get this tape
and they don't ask any embarassing questions when you call for one.. check
back issues of INFO or else maybe someone else here knows it.