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From: duncan@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Byte (jan) stuff - multitasking, OS/2, toaster, games and names
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Date: 19 Dec 90 00:46:13 GMT
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First let me start off by mentioning that the Video toaster
received a best products.

2nd that there is an article on Amiga EXEC

3rd (maybe this should go to comp.sys.amiga.games where they are
into OS questions as it relates to game implementation) - In a
discussion about OS/2 and Windows 3.0 the author mentions a game
called Star Control he has running under OS/2.  Why?  M. Minasi
feels one sure way to find out how well a "multitasker" functions
is to run highly graphical games or communications--- they to use
his words "stop the system dead".  So Star Control is available
for the amiga (works on A2000 and A3000 last I heard)-- does it
support multitasking?  Because one of the pluses he mentions for
OS/2 2.0 is that he can run Star Control in CGA mode (a graphic
intensive game) while working on his word processer and it does not
lock up the system.  So to quote once more... "Try this with JUST
ABOUT any other multitasker: instant lockup." [I added the caps].

hmmmmm.  Could he mean....

4th There  is a multimedia product for the Mac called Director
and it is version 2.0 by MacroMind.  The Right Answer's Group (is
that correct) also has Director 2.0 (or is it officially The
Director?), but for the amiga.  Both
appear to be script based packages for putting together sounds,
scanned images, artwork and text.  Confusing!


Just some things I saw while browsing through BYTE while I was
giving the old final.