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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
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- Subject: Re: Escom shop better
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:25:22 GMT
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- Dominic Tristram (dbt3@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
- : What a plesant suprise.... I just went into town (Plymouth)
- : for lunch and popped into the Escom shop. Last time I went
- : in there was the sad sight of a pile of Magic packs on the
- : floor, but now there is a 1200 set-up, connected to an
- : Amiga 1438 monitor, and running a game! (one of the magic
- : pack ones - don't know which). Amazing! It had a table all
- : to itself too!
-
- : Maybe there is hope yet (although I didn't actually ask
- : the salesman anything about it - I didn't want to push my
- : luck!)
-
- Now thats more like it! All we need now is to get these babies running
- some really cool stuff. A spangly Scala effort would be ideal, although
- I guess the MagicPack machines aren't quite powerful enough?
-
- Nows the time the AT to get the worlds coders doing OS compliant POS demos.
- maybe run a competition? The best demo each month wins a squirrel+ZIP drive
- or something, and then that demo is sent to all the stores to play with...
-
- Hmmm... A screensaver that does really wild demo stuff would be perfect...
- People can still use the machine, the shops types can still show the apps.
- etc, but whenever the machine is left alone for more than a minute, cool
- things happen. Are you reading this AT? =)
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