#Don't you dare…
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With christmas coming up I'm sure there are folks looking for PC stuff for
friends and family. In the search please remember that there is a boycott
against all Compton's products. Why?
If you dare use multimedia, like play a sound while running an animation
you have to pay Comptons for the privelage. You see, they invented
multimedia and own the patent. Then they had the gall to strong arm the
owners of Multimedia Forum by law suit to have the sysops delete all
messages that ridiculed the little thieves (Comptons).
Oh yeah- And while I'm rambling…
May Richard Allen Davis rest in piece. Many little dead pieces.
From Petaluma, Calif. merry christmas….
–Paul < Motorola Inside >
Paul:
Do you happen to know the date on their patent? Perhaps if somebody could
show an Amiga multimedia program (or presentation) that has an earlier
copyright date than their patent it could be declared void?
// -Mike Schiller
\X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale
I'm sure they didn't get it prior to the Boing demo in 85.
//
-Karl \X/ Amiga and Autopilot: The *only* way to fly!
Karl:
Well, I've never seen the Boing demo, but if it fits what is being called
MultiMedia now, then their patent isn't worth the paper it's written on!
Of course they could try and copyright the name 'MultiMedia', but chances
are that it was in use before their patent too, in which case they have
legal claim to nothing! (now to find a judge that would agree, and
somebody that feels like being a test case!)
// -Mike Schiller
\X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale
The patent isn't for "multimedia", it's for the search and indexing methods
that are used in Compton's CD-ROM software. That *hardly* spells the end of
multimedia development. There's lots and lots of discs out there that have
nothing *at all* to do with Compton's patents.
>"I've never seen the Boing demo"
Gasp! How can this be? Why, the boing demo is part of Amiga history,
something that *nothing* available at that long ago time could duplicate.
It is a bouncing and rotating (really color cycling) red and white checked
ball, with synchronized sound effects. The crowd at the Amiga intro was
awed. And it took all of a weekend to program. <G>
//
-Karl \X/ Amiga and Autopilot: The *only* way to fly!
>Gasp! How can this be? Why, the boing demo is part of Amiga history
Exactly. Not everyone has had an Amiga since 1985.
>And it took all of a weekend to program. <G>
Yeah, but what Dale Luck can hack together in a weekend (with 2 hours of
sleep), many teams of six programmers can't do in a month.
— Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
— INTERNET:dale@iam.com
>Yeah, but what Dale Luck can hack together in a weekend (with 2 hours of
>sleep), many teams of six programmers can't do in a month.
Especially if they're trying to program it on certain Incredibly Boring
Machines. <G> But I admit that anyone but DLuck wouldn't have been so
fast even on an Amiga.
//
-Karl \X/ Amiga and Autopilot: The *only* way to fly!
Really now Dale? I thought your blood was made of coffee, Coca-Cola and tea!
Warmest Regards,
John Chang
Technical/Sales Support
Scala, Inc.
In 1985 I worked for a company that had a "Slideshow" application that
played screens, accompanying sound files and dome limited animation. I
could use video freezframes input via the video teleconferenceing
application and incorporate voice annotatoin. The maind system had n o
keyboard and was touch screen driven via an iconic interface. The company
was pioneering the "paperless office" concept. Unfortuneatly to
cvompany's main owner had provisously owned and sold Ohio Scientific. His
main interest was in creating nice demos so he could sell the company and
let other people waorry about bring product to market. SO the company
bellied up. Fun work though, just a few years too early.
wmc – via Autopilot!