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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
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Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4344.0. "Amiga and Summer Olympics in 1996" by DICKNS::MACDONALD (VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs) Mon Dec 10 1990 16:48

    The December 1990 issue of Computer Graphics World has an interesting
    article how an Amiga 2500 was used to create a multi-media presentation
    that aided Atlanta in capturing the 1986 summer olympics.
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4344.1BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonMon Dec 10 1990 19:2715
    CNN did a behind the scenes report on how it was done.  Amazing stuff,
    even showed the rack holding the control gear, with the "commercially
    available personal computer that has a multitasking operating system"
    that controlled it all.
    
    The quote is probably wrong, but that's the best I remember of it, only
    saw it once.  It looked like a 2000 with the 5.25" bay empty.  Couldn't
    read the label.  Didn't see anybody using an Amiga, just saw it as a
    device controller.  It sounded like other cities might be interested
    in how Atlanta did it, I can see why the olympic committee was
    impressed.  Great example of a multimedia presentation, with the
    emphasis on the interactive user interface.
    
    Dave  
    
4344.2Computer Graphics AlsoSALEM::LEIMBERGERTue Dec 11 1990 05:5810
    The latest issue of Computer Graphics also has this covered under the 
    Applications Section of the mag. It includes info on the people that 
    programmed the software.As typical of Computer Graphics they held out
    as long as they could before mentioning the Amiga,but once they did it
    was easy to see that the Amiga truely did make it possible. To think
    an article like this when they did not even give the Amiga honorable
    mention in their issue on Multi-Media. CNN also did a short on the
    Alanta Selection. did not mention the Amiga,but gave a brief glance of
    it.(probably by mistake)
    							bill
4344.3Do I See an Echo?DICKNS::MACDONALDVAXELN - Realtime Software PubsTue Dec 11 1990 08:172
    RE: .2  It's actually the applications section of Computer Graphics
            World. See .0
4344.4Blue Ribbon Bakery..er..SoundworksSTAR::ROBINSONTue Dec 11 1990 09:439
     The people from Blue Ribbon Bakery Now called Blue Ribbon Soundworks
     did a lot of the work. They produce the Bars & Pipes music sequencer
     and I'm pretty sure they do Who What Where When (?) the calendar/organizer
     software.  I have Bars & Pipes which makes great use of multitasking.
     They released a new add on package aimed at incorporating sound with
     multimedia presentations. They say they used this stuff extensively
     with the olympic committee presentation. 
                                                         
     Dave