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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmiExpo
Message-ID: <9508@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 11:58:53 GMT
Organization: CCI CPD, Irvine CA
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Keywords: Show


	Shoot, it's been 4 days since the AmiExpo in LA, and nobody has said
didly.

	Allright, I'll kick it off, everybody jump in!

	Although this show was a bit small by my standards, it was non the less
very exciting.  CBM wasn't there, but I feel they knew they didn't have to be!

	So what's new you ask?

	Well, a lot!

	I finally saw the Video Toaster from NewTek, and let me say here, words
just can't describe it. (It could if you talked Pro TV Studio).

	A really remarkable product! (I should add a vapor product, since only
a prototype was shown). No promised dates.

	While in vapor mode, a NewTek representive said that the VT operates
in RGB, not just NTSC! NewTek had a camera pointed into the crowd, and showed
the realtime video effects. All kinds of effects. It would be a fair to compare
this setup to a $100,000 electronic effects machine in TV studios!

	Live! and Very Vived!(Mandela) was there.

	Mandela is really strange, people would walk to the booth and stand in
in front of a camera, while watching a monitor, and stick out various bodily
appendages to activate sound effects. Pretty strange to watch this interaction.

	Live! was there. But I was a little unhappy to find out that Live! will
not capture Interlaced HAM. I don't know if this a hardware restriction or
not.

	Oh, wait, SuperGen was there too. It looks like a finely honed product,
it really looks like the ultimate in Amiga Genlocks. So is the Pro price.

	Well that's all for video, at least for realtime video!


	Graphics, ok.

	Byte by Byte was showing some awesome animations (like the lower part
of a RoboCop strutting about) on a huge 37 inch direct view monitor. 

	Aegis was strutting her stuff too. I finally saw a slew of AH
(Allen Hastings) videos, like "Apocalypse Real Soon Now". Hot stuff. Mini
movies made on an Amiga.

	Aegis was promoting their new game "Ports of Call" which is one of the
reasons I'm posting this at 3:00 in the morning. Or is that 4:00?

	MicroIllusions was demoing Photon Paint, this is so hot, it's going to
redefine Amiga paint programs forever (at least for a while). A full HAM paint
program, with unbelievable snap perspectives, teardrops, etc. Ships in 2 weeks.

	Music, ok.

	Music-X was in high gear.  Dr. T was there, but in a way hugely
ignored, not unlike the way Dr. T ignored the Amiga. Tuff.

	Hardware.

	Well, I was surprised a bit by the CSA booth. That 68030 board really
is a screamer. CSA was demoing Mandelbrot generations simulateneously with
thier 68020 and 68030, for comparision. Obviously, the 68030 screamed.
I didn't even bother to ask about the price. They also had a 800meg WORM.

	I don't think I even touched the tip of iceberg.

	I won't try to say that this is all there was, just some.

	Who was there?

	That was like reading "Who's Who" in the Amiga world.

	Dale Luck
	Leo Schwab
	David Joiner
	Allen Hastings
	Rob Peck
	Richard Sexton
	John Foust
	Harald Milne 8^)

	The list just goes on and on. It was fun! I should have stuck around
for the up elevator!

	Forgive me if I offended anyone, deleted anyone, or anything, I just
thought boingers had the right to know!

	Come you guys, stop holding out!

	Brought to you by, a CCI 6/32. Say Richard, are you still bummed out?

	If you are really still bummed, I've got my raytraced asbestos on!

	Works too! (at least in my mind!)

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