From: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Commodore Demo competition
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:12:35 GMT
Reply-To: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Organization: Commodore Sweden

[Sorry for cross-posting, but I feel this might be of interest for a
bigger audience than .advocacy fans.]

In article <1992Sep10.151145.6403@news.uit.no> borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) writes:
>From todays 'DatorMagazinet' (Swedish C= magazine):

Still Swedens biggest Computer Magazine. They sell more copies than *any*
PC or Mac magazine.

>A600 is now shipping with 40M HD in Sweden.

Nice, eh?

>C= is cutting their PC Clown prices by 50%.

Extremely nice, eh? Interest has been *extremely* high, as well as sales.
The only problem right now is to get hold of machines. The price right now
is SEK 8495 for a 486DX-33/4MRAM/120MHD w/o monitor. (That is roughly 1570
US $). I don't know US PC prices too well, but this places us comfortably
under *all* other main PC companies, mail-order or not, and below almost
all Taiwanese imports.

We are re-organizing distribution to handle an expected *big* increase in
PC sales.

>C= is dropping much of the 'tie-and-suit' apperance, and has decided that

Yeah, I removed mine, an hour ago. But that's just because it's time to go
home. :-) (It's 8.30 PM, here)

>hackers&demogroups are a major group of Amiga users. Therefore they are

They have always been, haven't they?

>sponsoring a democompetition: 1st price an Amiga 3000 100HD/25Mhz 6M ram.

I think it is a different setup (haven't got the info right here), but it
is definitely an A3000-25.

>2nd price A600 (with HD?).

Yes!! 120 MB!!

>3rd price A590.

Or A2091/50MB.

All prices exchangeable for other Commodore products.


We are trying to "educate" the demo programmers at the same time. All
demos must be written in a system-safe way, run under 2.0 on A600HD and
A3000, return to DOS, be HD (or CD-) installable. (We are planning to
*maybe* put out a CD with all the competing demos.) The demo is free to
take over the machine (i a legal way), but must return everything afterwards.

If you want to enter the competition, drop me a mail and I will mail you
the rules. But get to work, the important part of the rules is above!!
[Alternative mail adress: uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswe!hjalmar   ]
Another important part: You have a much better chance of winning if the
demo a) Contains Commodores names and/or products. b) have text in Swedish
and c) does *not* contain foul language.

It is more practical if your demo group has at least one member in Sweden,
since the prices will be given out at a Computer/Toy Fair in Stockholm
29 October - 2 November.

>This seems to be in line with reports of usergroups getting support from
>C=.

Since the fiasco at SUGA some months ago, it is going the other way in
Sweden, unfortunately. The quality of Swedish user groups seems to be
going very much downwards, I'm afraid.

>|/// borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) | Amiga B2000			 \\\|

, and as we can see DatorMagazin is read in our neighbour countries as well. :-)



Oh, as usual I am really only just representing myself. As a employee
of the support (and not sales) department, I cannot make official
statements in matters like this. Take it for what it is, a friendly public
information.

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