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- From: ELA95CSH@shef.ac.uk (Chris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alien Breed 3D Escom UK shops are crap [shop demos need - tra da!]
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 19:39:39 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Eng, University of Sheffield , UK
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- In article <2401.6633T1018T362@tcp.co.uk>, rooster@tcp.co.uk says...
- > It's very encouraging to see that dealers in Europe are taking the Amiga
- >seriously.But guess what ?In my local Escom shop* they have ALL the PCs
- >running some kind of demo(application,gfx,sound etc.)but the one 1200 they
- >have unboxed is sat at on end of the shop away from the window with just
- >the workbench screen showing.In the middle of the shops they have a stack of
- >1200s still boxed but absolutely nothing showing off demos.It is painfully
- >obvious the staff are only interested in selling PCs.If anyone from Escom
- >reads this then do something about it.Advertise for Amiga enthusiasts to
- >work in the shops to demo the Amiga.Contact demo groups and have packages of
- >demos made so that even the most Amiga ignorant member of staff can load in
- >a repeating series of demoes etc.COME ON!! YOU WILL MAKE MONEY FROM THIS!!
-
- Your situations is rather familiar in Sheffield, but bot both Escom & Silica
- have an A1200 in the shop, up & running! Unfortunately only show a Workbench
- (bland in Escoms case & a simple MagicWb in Silica's). Well, having seen
- that, I decided to make a compilation of demos for those shops.
-
- By now, I have an 880k disk 100 percent will some really nice demos and 2 good
- `pictures` giving information about the Amiga (well done IMHO). I've had A
- LOT of response from my post (put in several Amiga newsgroups) about this.
- Infact, about 25-30 requests in a few days! I've emailed 20-odd people so far
- back with the uuencoded disk (in either dms or lha format as asked), and will
- be taking care of the rest soon.
-
- So far the response has been very positive! :)) When comments on the disk
- have all come in (or v.soon anyway as I leave Uni. & thus the Net on the 9th
- March for 5 weeks), I will be putting the finishing tweaks to the PAL (and
- hopefully NTSC) demo disk compilation, and put it on the Aminet; oh, and try
- to get those Sheffield shops to use it as well!
-
- If your interested, take a look at my post (subject "A1200 SHOP DEMO DISK
- finished. Opinions wanted :))") on csa.games, csa.misc & csa.demos; round
- about the 25-27th of Feb.. If your still interested, email me & I'll email
- you back with the UUencoded disk. In a few days though, I hope to get enough
- comments to tweak the current version & upload it to Aminet!
-
- Somebody else is also working on a demo disk to show a *base* A1200 off, but
- this will hopefully be on something like a CD (with some really nice pics,
- Escom & Amiga logo `anim` - all done in Amos)....
-
- --
- From Christopher Handley
- Email: ela95csh@sheffield.ac.uk
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