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From: GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET (Eric Giguere)
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Subject: Amiga in the news
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Date: 20 Mar 89 18:06:36 GMT
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The Toronto Star (a Toronto daily distributed throughout southern Ontario
--- 3 or 4 million people in the area) has an arts section/magazine
that comes out in the Saturday edition.  Last Saturday the centrespread
was a feature about an artist `discovering' the computer... which
computer? The Amiga of course.... the article is written in the 1st
person and I thought I'd relay a few choice quotes:

"Get a Mac, said one enthusiast.  It was great for word processing
and ran some good graphics programs, like MacPaint, but at the time,
not in color.  The highly praised Mac2 which now runs the most
sophisticated color programs available, hadn't yet come on the market,
and the monitor seemed too small.  New hardware and software were coming
out weekly, and no matter what equipment I decided on, something new
and improved was about to render it obsolete.  Try the Atari, someone
suggested.  How much K do you need? asked another.  I stood bewildered
in stores not knowing how much K I needed.

"Then I read about the Amiga.  I discovered that in addition to the
standard word processing and data base programs, it ran flexible color
graphics programs for visual artists at reasonable cost.  There was even
an endorsement from Andy Warhol.  I took the plunge and bought one."

He talks a bit about being a neophyte and gradually becoming experienced,
then gets into details...

"I fould DeLuxe Paint II quite straightforward.  Simply put, it lets you
do with images what a word processing program lets you do with words ---
that is, you can create an original image by drawing lines, dots and
shapes of varying thicknesses with the mouse or with a pencil on a slate
called Easyl.  With a program called Digiview, you can import an image
from another source --- photo, slide, TV screen, or real life.  You can
edit the image: resize it, stretch it vertically or horizontally..." etc.
(Talks about the many things you can do and all the colours to choose
from.)

After this he talks about how he used his Amiga to create the opening
sequence for the Genie awards (like the U.S. Emmy awards, for you
Americans) that will be shown on one of the networks here this week....

All in all, it was a pretty upbeat article, good exposure for the Amiga.
Even included a picture of the artist (Charles Pachter) seated in front
of his Amiga (a 1000, by the way).

Eric Giguere
Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo

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