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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga on Computer Chronicles!
Keywords: Miracle of miracles!
Message-ID: <1109@percival.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 20:05:23 GMT
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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The impossible has finally happened!  The PBS show The Computer Chronicles,
a show devoted almost solely to the IBM and Mac world, just did a show
completely about the Amiga!!  This is the first time I've seen the Amiga
featured on the show (not just in the background) since the Amiga Vs. Atari
episode in early summer '86.  For those of you who missed this latest show,
here's what they showed:
	First they introduced the Amiga 500 as a very powerful graphics
and sound machine that has multitasking and is very reasonably priced.
Then they talked about using the Amiga as an artistic tool. They talked
to a photographer who is using Digiview, and DigiPaint to make magazine
covers and software package covers.  Then they talked about using the
Amiga to do Animation with a real animator and Adams Douglas of 
MicroIllusions (hi Adams, Good Job!!).  They showed some very impressive
Cell Animation done with Photon Video.  Next came David Joiner and Adams
again, talking about Music-X.  David demonstrated some of the MIDI features,
and some of the great music you can do with the Amiga.  Very nice.  Then
to top it all off, Tim Jennison and Paul Montgomery of NewTek showed the
Video Toaster!  They also dropped some hints about NewTek's future directions.
Tim mentioned that they are planning bring all the hardware necessary for
quality video production into ONE box.  They are also planning an Animation
package (who isn't :-).  Paul also mentioned they are working on a Paint
program to work on the NTSC screen.
	What really floored me about this particular program was that most
of what they showed was NEW, even new to Amiga owners.  Considering their
slipup about the "Amiga 3000" in their news section of the program a few
weeks ago, this is an amazing turn around.  The demos we saw are the kinds
of things that separate the Amiga from the pack.  I wish they'd come close
to this level in '86.  It's very exciting to see the Amiga become 
recognized in the mainstream.  We've waited a long time for this, but I
think that our wait is over.  Again, to all of those people who were on the
show, or helped get the Amiga on (FAUG was in the credits), THANKS!
I have this wonderful mental picture of people throwing their Macs out
of their highrise apartment windows.  :-)
-- 
	-Ken Baer.  					 
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