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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:25:31 EDT
From:         Ernest Crvich <GENERAL@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Amiga seen on PBS

On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:22:08 MDT The Queen said:
>I utterly and totally disagree with the previous posting that the Amiga was
>portrayed as an "idiot's computer" on Computer Chronicles. I thought
>SuperJam looked great, and that the representative from Blue Ribbon came off
>as very enthusiastic and professional. The announcer seemed surprised several
>times that the program was using Amiga sound, as opposed to other machines that
   Sorry, I just didn't see this.  That woman was a very lively, enthusiastic
person, but she definitely didn't seem 'professional' per se.  I still be-
lieve her whole speech leaned toward the younger, less serious viewers.  The
program (Super Jam) had all sorts of little cute gadgets (smiley faces, etc.)
that definitely made it look toyish.  The whole time I kept saying to my-
self, 'Geez, show us something that would make people choose this over one
of the other platforms!'  I never saw such stuff.  In fact, I don't even
think they emphasized the fact that it used the Amiga's built-in sound to
do it all enough.  Yes, they said it all comes from the Amiga, but they
never mentioned how many channels it has.

>In fact, I often get a little tired of some of the attitudes on this net.
>I sometimes feel the IBM and Mac users are right in at least one aspect, that
>Amiga users, sadly too many of them, will complain no matter what happens. IF

   Sorry you feel this way.  That's not the way I feel.  I believe my
complaints are just, since the program clearly (in my mind) showed the
Amiga as (still) being a kid's computer.  Don't get me wrong, I still would
not trade my Amiga for either a mac or an ibm.  I just wish some of the
press the Amiga *does* get should be of higher quality.  Take the promo
video that NewTek gives out (are they still doing it?) for free showing
off the Video Toaster.  Nice piece of work, here.  No, I don't believe they
ever even *mention* the Amiga, but of course when you find out more about
buying a Toaster, that will be found out immediately.  I thought the news-
paper ad for the Amiga 3000 was really nice too (the shark coming out of
the monitor...that one).  I don't, however, feel that advertising Super
Jam along with the software that was shown with the other machines was
really fair.  The others were geared for professionals, so why not ad-
vertise the same type for the Amiga?  I'm not criticizing Super Jam, really,
I just don't think it was the right one to show off in that situation.

>lot to be desired. But if Commodore were to ome out with a huge media blitz,
>sell a billion machines and rule the world, a few Amiga users would complain
>about it anyway.

   I'm not criticizing Commodore.  I'm criticizing the decision of comparing
Super Jam with the others shown on the television program.

   Later,
--
Ernest Crvich                    ''There is absolutely no reason one dog
general@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu            should be able to take a human in
crvich@csugrad.cs.vt.edu           a fight.'' -- overheard on campus
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