baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (02/21/88)
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. // Hash Enterprises: Our Animations are Going Places! \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP "The Few, The Proud, The Criminally Insane - Oberlin Computer Science" - me.
gsarff@argus.UUCP (gary sarff) (02/24/88)
About the amiga on "Computer Chronicles", I missed it unfortunately. Did
anyone happen to make a video tape of it? Could I get a copy? We don't
get Computer Chronicles here, (dumb pbs station probably thinks no one
has computers around here.) Is it legal to ask? (probably not but I'm asking
anyway). Responses via email to protect the innocent. (or guilty)
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Gary Sarff {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!argus!gsarff
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