schabacker@frocky.dec.com (Tim, posting for C. Balzer) (12/13/88)
[...hic... Anyone with an alka seltzer around here?] The German Amiga community should praise [insert higher being(s)] for the fact that CBM can't or won't produce any Amiga TV spots, because if they were from the same agency that does the radio spots, any Amiga users with an IQ >60 would have to hide their faces in the street. The radio spots for the Atari ST range from mediocre to bad, but the Amiga spots are all simply DISGUSTING. But the Amiga has been for quite a while the best covered computer in the German TV (ok, there are more PC's, but from zillion different manufacturers). A (sort of) educational series featured the Amiga about 80% of all the times. In a report about the construction faults in Soviet nuclear power plants, a former Polish engineer used an A1000 to show all errors and mishandlings for about 10 minutes. The graphics he obviously made himself were pretty good. There were several other ocassions when you could see an Amiga or Amiga graphics/animations on prime time TV. Yesterday (06-Dec-88), I saw a report on AFN (American Forces Network) TV that showed the servicefolks what neat computers they could get at their PX (Post eXchange) or thru other AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Service) outlets. Although the computers you could see were mostly A**le (I guess IIGS) or PC clone thingies, about 90% of all screen shots were definitivly AMIGA! And as a last comment, the AAFES representative asured all potential customers that their software doesn't come with viruses. Sure hope he's right. :-) Just that ya know, - <CB> -- _ _ / / | \ \ <CB> aka Christian Balzer - The Software Brewery - < < |-< > decwrl!frambo.dec.com!schabacker OR schabacker@frambo.dec.com \ \_ |_/ / CIS: 71001,210 (be brief!), Phone: +49 6150 4151 ------------ Snail: Im Wingertsberg 45, D-6108 Weiterstadt, F.R.G. "Is it legal to suck dead gerbils thru a dirty garden hose?" -Me