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From: maniac@cleanhead.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: *** The New Amiga 3500 !!! ***
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.004856.3329@unlv.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 00:48:56 GMT
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In article <7986@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
) In article <6026@munnari.oz.au> jimt@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Jim Trivellas) writes:
) >
) >	I just obtained a copy of the November issue of the British Magazine
) >"AMIGA USER INTERNATIONAL", which has some information on the Amiga 3500
) >Workstation !!!
) >
) 
) Actually, I doubt that CBM commented on anything here.  I wonder if
) that picture is really of a 3500.  It takes little effort to stick a
) "3500" on an MS-DOS machine.  The early reviews of the CDTV had "faked"
) pictures of the machine.....
) 
) >Has anyone seen the 3500 or heard anything about it?
) 

	Funny you should mention that.  At the Amiga Booth at
COMDEX yesterday, I overheard one of the CBM Reps discussing
the A3500.  I didn't hear any details, but he seemed pretty 
open about it at the time.

	In case anyone is curious, the Amiga booth wasn't too
bad this year.  I dropped by to see the A3000UX, and wasn't 
disapointed, as they had about 4 UX's, a bunch of A3000s, 
and two A2500s.  And some of the A3000s were doing video work.
Including one that was GenLocking live video in a WINDOW!  I
thought that one was pretty neat :-).  Easy to see how they
did it, with the enhanced genlocking abilities of the ECS,
though.

	Though if you want impressive video, you should have
seen the NewTek demo of the Video Toaster!  They were doing
all sorts of live video alterations, and once focused the
camera on the audience and removed a person from the picture.
They did it with some kind of movement detection algorithm,
as near as I can tell, because the area behind him stopped
moving, but the rest of the picture didn't.  They took a picture
of the audience without him, then put him in, then removed him
from the picture.  NEAT!  And before anyone thinks they were
just replaying the previous frames, even when the guy was cut
out, if I turned my head, the monitor representation of me would
too.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu