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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: More than Boing
Message-ID: <413@aum.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 11:48:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 11:48:10 1985
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> I have been out of town for a while, and have come back to find a great
> uproar about the ST's attempt to copy the AMIGA Boing demo.  This all 
> seems a bit ridiculous to me, so I thought I would comment.
> 
> In the first place, this ST program is not a "copy" of Boing.  There's 
> differences, like the fact that the shadow is faked with line drawing, 
> while the AMIGA Boing has a drop shadow that follows the ball and changes
> the color of both the grid and the background.  Also, have you heard 
> the AMIGA's great booming sound, and compared it with the ST's
> more modest tinkling?  But these sorts of comparisons are just
> superficial.  What else can the ST do while it's bouncing a ball?  
 
etc etc etc Boy would you Amiga people get off the back of our ST. Are you guys
that insecure about an inanimate object of silicon and metal. Just relax, its
Christmas!! :-) We like our Volkswagen just fine. You can have your Fins.

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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
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