ehoogerbeets@wateuler.UUCP (12/07/87)
This is a short review of what was there, and my subjective opinion of it. Commodore hosted its "World of Commodore" show in Toronto from December 3 through 6. Commodore itself was well represented, as well as various user groups and local vendors. Attendance seemed to be very high, which I would think was because of the new 500/2000 releases this year, and it was successful. One highlight of the show was that the Toronto Pet User's Group (TPUG) invited Fred Fish up all the way from Arizona. He gave some lectures and appeared at the TPUG booth at various times. I saw his talk on Saturday, and it was quite interesting to hear how he does his collecting. Most major software companies had a booth. Word Perfect had an impressive display of all their products to one side, and others, like Electronic Arts, also had representatives at the show. [Interesting rumour: EA is working on an flight simulator *specifically* for the Amiga, ie NOT a port, that should be ready sometime early next year. I can't wait!!!] Very Vivid had a demonstration of the Mandala system going, which delighted passers-by as they inadvertantly created some effects on-screen. User groups were well represented. There were some from T.O. (TPUG), Hamilton (Ontario) and even one from Cleveland. The complete Fish library from TPUG and other collections from the other groups were available for the mere price of a floppy. Demonstrations of the spiffed-up C64 and 128 as well as the Commodore PC-10 and 20s were given and a surprising amount of software and accessories for these machines was available at rediculous prices. Hardware for the Amiga was also quite cheap. [I got suckered into buying another floppy for my 2000] Commodore itself had a huge display of every one of their currant machines and copious amounts of staff on hand to answer questions. They were swamped anyways! Altogether, I'd say I was quite impressed with the number of Amigans on hand and how the number of us is growing. It was quite enjoyable and well worth the trip to T.O. -- Edwin (Deepthot) Treasurer Hoogerbeets Computer Science Club watmath!orchid!csc University of Waterloo watmath!csc!edwin <----------- New CSC machine !!!!! watmath!wateuler!ehoogerbeets