hrlaser@pnet02.CTS.COM (Harv Laser) (10/21/87)
I finally got a chance today to see the "Amiga 500 Test Flight" Video
tape. Most all dealers should have it by now. It's 18 minutes long and
quite a good production. I think any non-Amigoid will be very impressed
by it, hopefully enough to want to buy the 500 (or even the 2000) after
viewing it a couple times.
The thing that impressed me most is that the images on the tape fly by
very quickly. It is NOT slow, boring or dry. It's an dymanic production
with a LOT of animation, music, graphics, and gives a very good sense
of what the Amiga can do by showing off some of the best software out there,
and some of the best artwork created with that software in a real
machine-gun hi-tech display. The hardware itself is briefly described
but not dwelled upon... no dry talk of floppy disks and printer cables, but
rather an almost constant barrage of imagery of programms running, grouped
by fields of interest (art, video, productivity, education, games, music).
The images range from the very old (if 2.5 years is "old") ballet dancers
to the very latest Videoscape animations, genlocking, and all the way up
to software which isn't even released yet.
The Test Flight is sure to bring a smile to any Amiga owner's face, and
will also hopefully serve its purpose as a dynamic sales tool to convince
those who are teetering on the edge of a purchase that the 500 is the
machine to get. There are a couple sorta hokey scenes involving a guy
working with some music software that go a bit overboard with facial
reaction shots, but other than that, it's an impressive effort.
The 500 television commercial, if you've seen it, is a tipoff as to what
the feel of the Test Flight tape is like.
Good going, Commodore folks.
Harv Laser
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