hoffmann@acl.kodak.com (marty hoffmann) (02/01/91)
I just saw a posting (but I can't remember to which amiga group it was inappropriately posted -- just like this post :^). It said that the U.S. government is using Amiga's to guide missles! The evidence was, as is usual of recent Amiga sightings, the dreaded GURU's sudden appearance. Now I don't know whether Amigas really are used to guide missles, suck quarters at mall video arcades, super-impose sexual organs over machine guns, and provide tourist information at any number of the U.S.'s finer airports, but wouldn't it be nice to see a posting that read "I could tell it was an Amiga because of the fantastic graphics and sound..." rather than "I could tell it was an Amiga because it crashed!" (Oh Boy! :^) Are the good old days gone forever? MRH
eachus@aries.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) (02/07/91)
I guess that there are two types of Amiga spotters...those that
can recognize the Amiga from artifacts in the graphics, and those that
have to wait for a Guru message. All video/animation/ray tracing/etc.
programs and machines seem to have characteristic artifacts, and
people who really KNOW the tools know how to avoid them. With the
Amiga you can sometimes spot the 4096 color palette, but the usual
giveway is the tricks needed in some Amiga fonts to avoid bleeding of
color for TV receivers in fringe reception areas. (The Amiga output
allows you to violate the NTSC saturation specs, but if you do it and
want to broadcast the result, you had better have a compatible
border.)
I don't post Amiga spotted notices anymore since, at least on the
channels I watch, about thirty percent of the graphics work is
identifiable as coming from an Amiga. (Only about 25% is idenifiable
as definitely coming from some other system, the biggest group is "good
work, can't tell, but could ba a...")
--
Robert I. Eachus
Our troops will have the best possible support in the entire
world. And they will not be asked to fight with one hand tied behind
their back. President George Bush, January 16, 1991