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From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk (Brian Salter)
Subject: Acorn News Release
Date: 12 Nov 91 10:16:19 GMT
Acorns help boost Soviet Romance
Release Date 12.11.91
Soviet television viewers are enjoying a Russian version of the popular TV game
show "Love at First Sight" - and the graphical on-screen images have all been
made possible by the use of Acorn Archimedes computers.
The show, which is almost a direct translation of the version shown on Sky TV,
features three boys and three girls who, after a series of questions, have to
decide whom they would pick for a date. On-screen graphics include, amongst
others, a "love board", a spray of hearts and the contestants' names.
The software has all been written by Chris Goss of G Graphics who uses a Prisma
3 graphics engine controlled by an Archimedes computer. The Prisma unit
provides broadcast quality genlockable video signals to achieve real time
animation and video effects. The computer also generates the sound effects
for the show and controls the button interfaces on the contestants' consoles.
Chris Goss has provided computer graphics and effects for many other television
game shows using the Archimedes, including "Going for Gold", "Jeopardy",
"Busman's Holiday", "Connections", "Trivial Pursuits", "The Pyramid Game",
"One False Move", "Press Your Luck", "Keynotes", "Runway", and so on. Apart
from his work with British TV companies, he also writes the software for TV
shows in France, Spain and Scandinavia.
For quiz shows, he uses Acorn's PC Emulator to transfer text files, provided
by the game show production team, to the Archimedes computer for manipulation
of the data.
Chris Goss writes most of his software in BBC Basic. "When producers suddenly
want last minute changes to the effects generated by the computer, which they
invariably do, it would simply be impracticable to have written the programs
in 'C', or some other high level language" he said. "The Basic on the 'Arc' is
comprehensive enough to give me all the facilities I need, and the 'Arc'
provides all the speed I need."
Similarly, he uses an Archimedes computer because of its ease of use and
versatility. "I use Acorn machines because of their expansion capabilities,
and because I can control virtually anything extremely easily" he said. "If I
had to rely on an ordinary PC, quite apart from the expense involved, it
would be extremely difficult to control everything I wanted from just the one
machine."
Ends
Further information from:
Chris Goss
G Graphics
37 The Avenue
Twickenham
Middlesex TW1 1QU
Tel: 081 891 3962
Fax: 081 744 1627
Issued by:
Brian Salter
Corporate Affairs Manager
Acorn Computers
Fulbourn Road
Cherry Hinton
Cambridge CB1 4JN
Tel 0223 245200