ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) (09/21/87)
[] Is it normally like this? I usually don't read any papers (USENET & work pretty much prevent me from reading anything but a few Amiga magazines and watch the nightly news. 8-) ). But this weekend I just happened to get my hands on two papers, and, both mentioned the Amiga, favorably! The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner's "Image" magazine had an article entitled "Holywood on a Desktop," mostly about EA & Deluxe Video. It only mentioned the Amiga once: "With the Deluxe series and a Commodore Amiga personal computer, anyone can turn out animated stories complete with color, subtitles, music, and sound effects." There was also a picture (the one from the back cover of Deluxe Video box). The Mercury News, in the hardware review section had an article entitled "From Max Headroom to Hobbyist --- Commodore Makes Science Fiction Real." The article had a picture of a full-featured A2000 running Marble Madness. The article talked of the A1000 as being "mispositioned" --- too high priced for the home, but not quite a business machine. Then it talked about the 500 and the 2000, favorably --- "Graphics of the Amiga often rival specialized graphics terminals and computers that cost $10,000 or more... The Amiga is still one of the only multitasking computers available ..." They also mentioned the use of Amigas at Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center and in making Max Headroom. [We all saw that 1-second mention of "Commodore Business Machines, Amiga Division" at the end of Max Headroom, right?] Anyway, all in all pretty encouraging! Good to read about Amigas in non-Amiga publications. Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu
higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES) (09/22/87)
in article <603@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) says: > Is it normally like this? I usually don't read any papers (USENET & work > pretty much prevent me from reading anything but a few Amiga magazines and > watch the nightly news. 8-) ). But this weekend I just happened to get my > hands on two papers, and, both mentioned the Amiga, favorably! > ... > Anyway, all in all pretty encouraging! Good to read about Amigas in non-Amiga > publications. > > Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu Since I know you folks like to hear about ANYTHING we're up to here at Commodore, you should be pleased to know we're currently involved in a huge loaner-review program for publications of all kinds. So far we've loaned 50 or so A500's and a few A2000's, but the numbers will be increasing in the next few weeks. The publications include music, graphics, design, architecture, computer specialty, and many others. Since the program is being supported directly by us, i.e., if a magazine reviewer has problems operating the machine for example, someone here will help them personally with it, we should get some good press out of it. PLEASE don't ask ME if you can be a "loaner-site", that's up to our P.R agency, in California. Don't call them unless you're involved with a magazine. Their name is Fleischmann-Hillard (probably spelt wrong). This isn't my usual "formal, tell it to the users" style of message, but I thought it was a positive thing you'd all like to know. Regards, Paul Higginbottom Sales Support Manager
hobie@sq.UUCP (09/25/87)
>in article <603@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) says: > Is it normally like this? I usually don't read any papers (USENET & work > pretty much prevent me from reading anything but a few Amiga magazines and > watch the nightly news. 8-) ). But this weekend I just happened to get my > hands on two papers, and, both mentioned the Amiga, favorably! > ... > Anyway, all in all pretty encouraging! Good to read about Amigas in non-Amiga > publications. > > Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu The film "Family Viewing" which won Best Canadian Film at this year's Toronto Film Festival has a scene with an A1000 in it. The scene begins with a close-up of the monitor (which is switched off) and zooms out to an office where the rest of the gear is visible. The character did "use" it in the film but there were no screen shots, only security camera-grade surveillance footage which I believe we were supposed to think was coming from the computer. Is this the first appearance of an Amiga in a theatrically-shown film? It's not in commercial release, but I'm sure it will be; it's been invited to another film festival (the film that is, not the Amiga). Hobie Orris.