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- From: Tony McCreath <mccreath@bnr.ca>
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- Subject: Re: World of Amiga, London: Review
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:26:13 +0100
- Organization: Bell Northern Research
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- Adam@beachyhd.demon.co.uk wrote:
- >
- > World of Amiga Show, Hammersmith, London, 13/4/1996
- >
-
- .....
-
- > Some of the people that were there:
- >
- > Amiga Technologies
- > Well, they had a stand, anyway. I thought the space was wasted, to be
- > quite honest. There was a demo of MindWalker, which looked rather nice,
- > and demonstrations of Scala, but that was about it. I couldn't see any
- > sign of the Walker..
-
- There was one in a case and one doing some sort of demo. I never got
- close
- enough to see the screen though :(
-
- .....
-
- >
- > Some of the people that should have been there:
- >
- > Almathera
- > The claim in the brochure was that they were too busy developing the
- > new version of Photogenics. Ok, I can believe that, but I'm sure that
- > of all the companies that really should have been supporting the Amiga
- > show, Almathera are right up at the top of the list. I bet they would
- > have shifted a fair number of copies of Photogenics, too!
- >
- > Future Publishing
- > They said they were going to be there, but I couldn't find them.. Did
- > I miss something?
-
- I believe they had several stands. AF was definitely there.
-
- Blittersoft seemed to back out at the last minute, and I would have
- liked
- Phase 5 to have been there, I had plent of money to waste!!!
-
- .....
-
- >
- > As I was going to the show, I had a feeling that I was going to leave feeling
- > either very depressed (at the lack of exhibitors and the lack of interest), or
- > very happy. I'm certainly rather happy as I type this.
- >
- Same with me.
-
- > The commercial world might have forgotten us, and we may have been slowly
- > moving backwards for the last couple of years, but one thing is certain: the
- > people of the UK still love the Amiga.
- >
- > .\dam. [Team AMIGA] //\ ad32@brighton.ac.uk \\/
-
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