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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
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

4790.0. "Computer Chronicles dedicates show on AMIGA 3000" by GLDOA::SPATOULAS (Don't Automate the Past...Invent the Future...) Mon Jun 03 1991 09:19

Show is dedicated on the AMIGA 3000 !!!! 

It happened on the Computer Chronicles this past Saturday (6/1, in Detroit area)

Finally those guys admitted that there are other computers beyond IBM PCs and
their clones !!!!!(Well they do cover occasionally MACs).....


Any way it was a great show and they did admit that AMIGA is the best
Multi-media machine and did show the new Walt-Disney animator doing real-time
animation animation creation, as well as a small Donald-Duck show that was
already created ahead of time.  Also NEWTEK's Videotoaster was there showing 
their tricks by having their cameras in the studios and using the host show as 
live part of the demonstrations (blending-ins, "Star Trek" like fade-ins etc.) 

Of-course they also showed Amiga DOS 2.0 ....

I thought it was great that finally they recognized that Amiga is around...

The only thing missing was .....business software....


Great show ...


...gss... 

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4790.1BARD::mcafeeSteve McAfeeMon Jun 03 1991 11:314
Was newtek showing the toaster on the A3000?  Last I heard you had to remove
the back of the A3000 case and replace one of the custom chips to do this...

-steve
4790.2AICAD::CUDMOREHave you licked your toad today?Mon Jun 03 1991 12:4221
       No, they weren't showing it on an A3000 (it was something in the
       2000 line) ...

       By the way, there's a great 2-page article on the Video Toaster
       in the latest Rolling Stone.  I think the two guys on this
       Computer Chronicles show were the two interviewed in this article
       (at least the name Montgomery sounds familiar).  They were pretty
       cool in the interview.  Asked why they're based in Topeka Kansas
       one replied that the other originally followed some girl into
       town and then they just "never approached escape velocity".  When
       they were developing the Toaster their shop had a sign on it that
       said something like "Nuclear Waste Disposal Systems (Where Your
       Family's Health is All But Assured)".  They go roller-skating on
       Main Street during lunch, etc. etc.

       Sean

       PS:  There was a big article on CDTV on the front page of the B
            Section of last Friday's Wall Street Journal.

4790.3VICE::JANZENA Refugee From Performance ArtMon Jun 03 1991 13:414
	I heard there were some Amiga-gneerated cartoons on America's
	funniest home video last night.
	fully produced, very short, bya  guy at home, may have been 3000
tom
4790.4CRISTA::CAPRICCIOStuck in the H�2�WhoaMon Jun 03 1991 18:1710
    The only ones I saw were on the show that follows America's Funniest
    Home Videos (America's Funniest Peeples, or something to that effect),
    which were done on a Mac (at least that's what they showed) and they
    were quite good by Mac standards, but IMHO downright lame by Ami standards.
    I've seen some Disney Animation Studio pencil sketches done on an
    Amiga that were miles ahead of the "so-called" finished work I saw last
    night. Someone give Eric Schwartz (sp?) a nudge and tell him to submit
    some of his stuff (done on "Moviesetter" of all things!).

    Pete
4790.5Radio; I listen to RADIO !ULTRA::BURGESSMad Man across the waterTue Jun 04 1991 12:499
	There was also  quite a lot of CDTV converage on NPR this 
morning, as part of some consumer electronics show (I missed the 
intro).Anyway, it sounded good, they just threw some doubt on how much 
would get developed for it..... "IT"  not being major platform based, 
etc.

	R

4790.6CDTV at THE Consumer Electronics ShowCADSYS::CADSYS::MURATORIRich Muratori, SEG/CAD, HLO2Tue Jun 04 1991 13:209
    Re .5:
    
    I heard the full report.  They were reporting from THE Consumer
    Electronics Show - the biggie held every year in Chicago where all next
    year's Christmas goodies are being promoted.  I was surprised that CDTV
    was singled out as the device they focused on for the report.  It must
    have generated a lot of interest at the show.
    
    Rich
4790.7GLDOA::SPATOULASDon't Automate the Past...Invent the Future...Wed Jun 05 1991 16:047
re:.1

-steve

You are corrected it was showing on 2000 with mucho memory.....

george