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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <72417@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 22:44:11 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <n1314t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu>
- Lines: 27
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- In article <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu>
- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
-
- | [...]
- | See? Now you're getting the idea. There are more possibilities with
- | CD-ROM than without it.
-
- Y'know, probably most don't remember this, but at one of the FAUG (First
- Amiga Users' Group) meetings during 1986, Jim Becker demo'd his InfoMinder
- program with a CD-ROM on the Amiga. Some encyclopedia on a CD-ROM, stereo
- sound, and intermixed with the Amiga's generated graphics.
-
- Stupendous. It brought down the house. And the "house" was packed literally
- wall-wall and floor-ceiling in those days (when even Allen Hastings demo'd
- his first efforts).
-
- NOTHING else on ANY computer at that time could compare. NOTHING. Period.
-
- That was over 6 years ago; sadly, another idea before its time killed due
- to poor marketing and lack of vision of promoters AND users/buyers.
-
- The Amiga could have totally dominated the multi-media market had 6 years'
- of intervening development continued.
-
- Sigh.
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-