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- From: john@becca.rain.com (john meissen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CBM at CES/Vegas quickie report
- Message-ID: <6OZgs*rZ2@becca.rain.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 20:50:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: becca.6OZgs*rZ2
- References: <73144@cup.portal.com> <C0Izus.L12@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: john@becca.rain.com
- Organization: Washington Valley Software
- Lines: 27
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- In article <C0Izus.L12@news.iastate.edu>, Marc N. Barrett writes:
-
- > In article <73144@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- > >RJ Mical and Dave Needle, both of the original Amiga Inc.
- > >were on the stage driving the demos during the presentation.
- > >They are part of the software and hardware team that has been
- > >developing this product in near secrecy for quite a while
- > >now. The proto machine is RISC based, full 24 bit output,
- > >has a CD drive, plays many kinds of media including music and photo CDs,
- > >and is equipped with coprocessors which let it do nice
- > >things like real time image mapping and rotation and warping
- > >and transparency and real-life lighting effects.
- >
- > Too bad they've already made agreements with Panasonic to let them sell
- > it. I guess there will be no miracles opportunities for Commodore to get
- > outstanding technologies cheap this time.
-
- When I was part of the Atari (Epyx) Lynx team we (Epyx) talked to a dozen or
- more companies before licensing the technology to Atari.
-
- What inside source do you have that informed you they didn't approach
- Commodore before making an agreement with Panasonic?
-
- John Meissen | john@becca.rain.com
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