mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) (08/13/90)
I went to the *big* MACWORLD expo here in Boston at the World Trade Center and at the Bayside Expo Center. Amidst all the business products (it seems that everywhere I looked, there was some form of network mail package being demonstrated). They had as well, a bunch of boobs with genlock and macII's showing videotapes of the abc logo swirling around, and other "neato" things that have been done on the MacII. Three of the graphic-multimedia booths I visited had a long video demonstration (complete with demonstrator, microphone, bad sense of humor). On the videotapes they flashed from time to time different users (from kids to businessmen & women) in front of a computer showing animation previously filling the entire screen. Something caught my eye over and over again. Somebody from the front row of foldup chairs left, so I moved to the front. Half of the animations I've seen on the amiga, and they quite often showed the amiga itself running the animations. I asked the exhibitors afterwards about their amiga lines, and all three said that either (A)they didn't have any amiga lines or (B)they didn't know what the amiga was (sure bub) I thought this was really interesting... then also at a different multimedia booth they had a video running as a macII was hooked up to high-quality video editing deck (what the amiga with a genlock will make obsolete, but you explain that to the macintosh folks). the video caught my eye because well, it kept showing CINEMAWARE game shots, from Defender Of The Crown all the way to It Came From The Desert. these were not the mac versions, they were unmistakably amiga versions. Watching some more showed some amiga educational pacakages including shots of kids using an amiga. The sign to the left of the monitor said "Created with MACROMIND DIRECTOR" this is not the same director as is available on the amgia, correct? Then why use amiga shots? I was really confused (and laughing on the inside...)