skinner@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Skinner) (12/04/88)
I suppose everyone else will have seen this, too, and hoot 'n' holler about it, but I haven't seen them yet, so I'll say it. While I was watching a basket- ball game last night (part of our degree requirements here at Chapel Hill :-) I saw a (bank? BB&T? I wasn't watching whatever the ad actually promoted) commercial about a family giving their son a computer for his birthday. The first view is from behind, with Dad doing something with a 2-button mouse. I thought, "I know the back of that monitor!" Yep, it was an Amiga. You could see the Amiga name on the monitor. Well, I could. You could if you saw it. I hope this isn't one of the commercials that have been discussed so fervently already here. You'd discover I wasn't paying attention. By the way, to Todd Carpenter, who answered my question about Sculpt3D, I lost your address. This is just to say glass texture wouldn't have done for the object I was modelling, but it might for another one. Thanks for the response. Andy "I like to make parenthetical remarks while I'm typing, 'cause I can look back to see what I was saying before" Skinner skinner@unc.cs.unc.edu
bcorrie@uvicctr.UUCP (Brian Corrie) (12/05/88)
Yes folks it's true. One boring Sunday afternoon, sitting in front of the TV, he notices ``The Computer Show''. Hmmmm Interesting. Tortures himself with watching a half hour of ( No don't say it ) IBM PC business software being demoed. 8^0 YAWNNNNNN The half hour ends, and I think to myself, what a waste. Disgustingly ( sp??? ) he picks up the remote control and is about to perfrom the infamous flick.flick.flick when out of the corner of his eye he sees a glimmer of Sunshine. In the closing credits, we see something like the following statement: Computer Graphics Created By : Commodore Amiga 2000 Deluxe Paint II Some other stuff.... Why just say some other stuff. Well, the credit was on long enough for me to read just that much of it before it was taken off. 8^( I thought, it figures, the IBM stuff gets all the air time and the Amiga does the real work 8^) 8^) We know where the real power lies!!!!!! A small disclaimer here. The show wasn't as bad as I made it sound. Its audience was obviously the business comunity, and they have had Amiga notes ( Commodore releases 1.3 and the announcement of the Amiga 2500 and the Unix port at COMDEX ). It was just real nice to see the words Computer Graphics Created By : Commodore Amiga 2000 On the screen. Yeah team. -- Brian Corrie, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada Under the most rigourously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Don't worry, I know nothing of what I babble about.......