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From: phil@sdcsvax.UUCP (Phil Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <1055@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:54:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 00:54:03 1985
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Reply-To: phil@sdcsvax.UUCP (Phil Cohen)
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Summary: 

I saw an Amiga at SIGGRAPH and it IS an impressive machine.

What attracted me to the booth initially was the wonderfully raspy
sound of an electric guitar being played through some sort of effects
box...wrong...it was the Amiga synth chip.  I honestly thought someone
had a guitarist playing in their booth as a marketing stunt!

One of the demos was a flight simulator that, while nowhere near as
good as dogfight on the Iris, is still MUCH better than anything I have
seen on machines in the same price range as the Amiga.  It was hard to
get close enough for a real good look, but the color graphics view out
the front window consisted of beautiful shaded surfaces that were
smoothly animated as the plane rolled and pitched arround.

At this point, I am hoping that COMPLETE documentation will be
available for, what appears to me to be, a milestone in personal
computing.  This is the affordable computer that I, and a lot of other
professional programmers, have been waiting for...

Phil Cohen