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From: jonesjg@dg_rtp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga's Enemy: Another View
Message-ID: <1931@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 00:43:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.1931
Posted: Wed May 20 00:43:16 1987
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Reply-To: jonesjg@dg_rtp.UUCP (Greg Jones)
Organization: Data General, RTP North Carolina
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In article <4924@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>
>>  Even knowing about it, I was severely disappointed with the
>>  salespeople at most of the local stores; hell, *I* knew more about the
>>  machine than most of them, even then ! I asked one of them "How much
>>  of the software supports multitasking ?"; he replied "Multi-tasking ?
>>  What's that ?"
>
>Yeah, yeah!!  I am *appalled* at the lack of enthusiasm/support for
>the Amiga, from those who are supposed to be "authorized Amiga
>representatives."
>

I agree and for what I can see of the stores in the Raleigh area the Amiga is
getting less and less popular.  The Store I bought my amiga from didn't 
even have a display model anymore.  They only had some genlocks and trans-
formers laying around.  For the last few months upon every visit to the store
I saw more and more Apple machines and less of the amiga! And now even after the
machine has been out for 2 years it is still hard to find a sells person that
really knows the machine.  I know the amiga may not be for everybody but 
without some advertising real soon now :-) I can't see any future.
The amiga is truely a unique machine and I would hate to see it vanish beneath
a pile of Macs and PCees.

With the Amiga's execellent sound and graphics, coupled with the genlock, why 
not just make the commercial with the machine.  I can imagine the commercial
starting out with some nice digitized music, with some nice scenery from the
genlock.  From the background a couple of animated kids come walking into 
the forground.  The background from the genlock could fade away to a completely
computer generated background drawn with DPaint.  The Kids could walk from 
screen to screen of futuristic drawings telling what ever message the 
marketing folks think best.  At the end the camera could pull away letting
the audience see the commercial playing on the amiga screen with a little
blurb like "Commodore Amiga the worlds most creative computer ".
The same script could be released to computer stores for a demo, Of course
this would take a fully loaded demo computer, But after all that's the 
kind of machine I would expect the dealers to be demo-ing anyway!

						J. Greg Jones

backgound from Dpaint, or Ageis images
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				Greg Jones
				Data General, RTP, NC
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