Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!noc.sura.net!haven!uvaarpa!murdoch!dale.acc.Virginia.EDU!kws1x From: kws1x@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Kenneth W. Smith Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How to show off an Amiga? Message-ID: <1990Dec10.214233.2053@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 90 21:42:33 GMT References: <1990Dec10.123814.20267@cs.umu.se> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Univ. of Va., Dept. of Pharmacology Lines: 48 Ireallyam: kws1x In article <1990Dec10.123814.20267@cs.umu.se> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes: >In article andrewsr@romulus.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes: >>Hello All. >> >>For the past month or so I have dropped by a couple of Amiga dealers >>in my area. I have been very disappointed with their "demos". >> >>So, I have decided to bring a small set of PD software with me to each >>of the places that I visited and a) teach the dealer how to use them, >>and b) give them to the dealer. I will bring along a complete listing >>of the Fish disks, my phone number, and a number/address of the >>nearest users group. >> >>(I mean really, one of the dealers I went to had 2 things to show on >>his 3000: Dpaint and the animation given by C=). >> > >This is a good idea BUT... I have done what you suggest, giving dealers easy >to use demos for the amiga showing off sound and graphics mainly. The dealers >use them a couple of times and then they let the machine show off the >workbench hand again :-(. It is certainly worth a shot but don't expect too >much. Dealers in general know nothing or less about what they sell and are >only interested in getting their pay and go home. > All too true. I drove 2 hours to my nearest C= dealer after calling about KS 2.02 for my A3000 only to be brushed off by one of the salespeople with an unfriendly, "No, we don't have it. We lost the disk." >>(If you could only show 1-3 animations, which ones would they be?) >> > >The best animations I have seen don't work on 680x0 machines, Sorry. > Of all of the anims/demos that I have gotten from the Net, only Walker2 has not worked (not enough memory...sigh...:) NewTek demos 1&3 work under 1.3 on the A3000, Charon is one of the most beautiful anims I have ever seen on this machine, and, of course, the Juggler really blows people's minds! I think your idea is great, Rich. Keep on tryin'! K W Smith, Jr. The Charlottesville Sector ******************************************************************************* * "Forgive me, but where would a 6000-year-old Mayan god * * learn to downshift a Toyota?" -Kate T. from _ALF_ * *******************************************************************************