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From: stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu (Kevin Whyte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The Amiga featured in Computer Chronicles
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.150858.55@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 21:08:58 GMT
Organization: Mankato State University
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Well I just got done watching Computer Chronicles.  I must say that I think the
show presented the Amiga in a VERY positive light.  They opened with a musician
using the amiga and midi in the background while the shows host told what the
program was going to be about.  Next they went into the studio and introduced a
represenitive from commodore ( I think he was a VP but I can't remember for
sure,  If people really want to know I can review the tape I made and tell
you)  He introduced the Amiga 3000 and told a bit about the internals and how
it was different from the A2500/30.  He then went in a did a small demo of 2.0
which he said was included with the A3000 (duh) as well as Amigavision.  He
then turned the 3000 over to another person that demoed Amigavision.  This was
the first time I actually saw Amigavision.  It looks really great!!   He made a
small program(?) that took a digitized picture of the three stooges and created
a "hot spot"(place for the mouse to click) out of Curleys head.  He then showed
a premade demo of a rendered skeleton turning within a page of text and
different ways to zoom in, zoom out, and stop rotation.  He made it look
extremely easy!  Then he did a demo using a Amigavision and a pioneer
laserdisk.  It showed a book with different catagories of insects. You clicked
on the category you wanted and it played a segment of the videodisk
corresponding to the selection 'clicked'.
  After the demo of Amigavision they showed a story about the Palo Alto Users
Group( Sorry if I slaughtered the name) then they went to Hewlett Packard where
they were using an Amiga 2500/30 to develop an interactive training program for
their employees.  The engineer they interviewed said they selected the amiga
becuase they wanted a computer/software combination that would do the job right
of the shelf.
   After that story they went back top the studio and a couple of guys from
Newtek did a demo of the Video Toaster.  They did different video special
effects that I thought were very impressive.  I won't go into detail becuase I
don't know a damn thing about video.  They did tell that the video toaster for
$1500 did the same job as what is being done with $50000 + equipment.
  Oh I almost forgot, back on the A3000 a person from Disney did a demo of the
Disney Animation Studio.  When asked why Disney had written the software for
the amiga, the man said that the Amiga's graphics capabilities were very 
suitable for their application.

  I apologize for the post being this long I hadn't planned it to be.  During
the entire program not once was the amiga mentioned to be a "Game machine" 
instead it was refered to as a creative machine, a multimedia machine.  It was
a great program.
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 stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu           Kevin Whyte            Proud Owner of an
 Croaker@bbs.quartz :)         Mankato State University         Amiga 1000
 stx@att1.mankato.msus.edu        Mankato MN 56001
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