CompuServe Messages

I was a speaker at the Commodore Show II, so I thought I'd tell you a few things of special interest. Yes, the digitizer was demonstrated several times. It offers 32 gray scales (using some shades of green to do the trick) in B&W mode. The newest feature of the digitizer is color capability. With Amiga's 4096 colors, these pictures, though sometimes surreal are amazingly true-to-life. The digitizer can work up to 10 frames per second, permitting pseudo-realtime digitization. I also saw another company with a slower (non realtime) color digitizer which produced sample pictures that looked like they came right off a color TV. Many of the major players in the Commodore market were there, including Berkele Berkeley software with their GEOS Macintosh-like (or should I say Amiga-like?) user interface, and three applications (word processor, paint program, and one more that I forgot.) But the Amiga clearly generated the most excitement. R.J. Micals, author of Intuition, was there, and gave two well-attended talks on the Amiga in general, and on Amiga programming. Most of the Amiga software you've seen advertised was being demonstrated so we know these products at least exist. I don't think it will be long now before the software unavailability crisis is over. There's no room here for a complete show report, but I'll be writing about this and other topics in my first Amiga column for COMPUTE! magazine (COMPUTE!, May 1986). This Amigaforum seems it's really beginning to "jell," as a valuable source of new Amiga material. Enjoy your computer! * Charles *