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- From: pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin)
- Subject: Re: What is the best demo for an A4000?
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- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:36:09 GMT
-
- kgroombr@huachuca-emh8.army.mil writes:
- > I currently work at a highly visible organization within the Army. We are getting ready to have a
- > grand opening of our new facilities. We will be having visitors from all over the world including
- > top executives from many companies. The very nice people at SMG, the U.S. distributors of the
- > Amiga, are going to lend us an Amiga 4000T to demo at our grand opening.
- >
- > My main question is what is the best demo to really show off this machine? The Amiga will be
- > displayed along side computers running Win 95, WinNT 4.0B, OS/2, etc. I want to put all the
- > other machines to shame.
- >
- > I was thinking of getting Shapeshifter on it, but I have never set it up before. I don't have
- > a reason to run Mac stuff, but that would help to get it noticed. I was thinking of some demos
- > that really show off it's multimedia capabilities.
- >
- > Please forward some ideas to me. I have about three weeks to get it ready, so please let me know
- > ASAP.
- >
- > Thanks for any help,
- > Kenton Groombridge
- > kgroombr@huachuca-emh8.army.mil
- Mr. Groombridge,
- Thank you very much for your dedication and support to the
- Amiga. I hope your demonstration goes well. The Amiga has
- always been an eye-catcher. As far as software is concerned,
- while I agree that having ShapeShifter is a good idea, as it
- would once again show off the multitasking abilities of the
- Amiga (you could even run the Mac on a WINDOW on the Amiga
- workbench!!!) I think that pure Amiga software would be better
- to convince others of the Amiga's power. First of all, I would
- recommend improving the workbench with either:
- 1. MagicWB
- 2. NewIcons
- 3. Iconographics
-
- All 3 of these are available on Aminet and offer demo pics of
- what your system will look like after you install it. I run
- MagicWB, but I am on an ECS machine. Newicons may be best for
- the AGA A4000T.
-
- Secondly, I would strongly recommend Scala MM400 or IC500 to
- run a demo. I'm not sure exactly how much time you will have
- WITH the Amiga to prepare, but you could create your own
- script, run it in combination with the Scala-created scripts,
- etc. The great thing about Scala is that you can put together
- animations, pictures, text information, and sound all together
- VERY easily. I suggest you take a look at Scala's two home
- pages (one is at http://www.scala.com/) for more information.
- Scala MM300 comes with the A4000T as part of the Amiga Magic
- software bundle. I am not sure if you will have this installed
- or not. However, I would consider opting for MM400, as it
- takes advantage of the AGA chipset, while with MM300 you are
- stuck with the 16 colors of ECS (or 64 colors in lores).
- Additionally, there are many new features in MM400. You must
- experience it to see its true power, but for a preview, you can
- check the Aminet (http://laslo.netnet.net:80/aminet/) for a
- demo of *MM300*.
-
- If you need any help, or would like information on ordering
- Scala MM400, please do not hesitate to contact me.
-
- Regards,
- Patrick Mackin
- Imagine Computers
- Virginia, USA
-