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