On 2024-05-07 12:29, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 09:52 PM 5/1/2024, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
In the early days of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, (and I may have the two
reversed in the following anecdote), Atari had a nice display of a bouncing
checkered beach ball. Amiga had almost nothing.
But, the second day, everybody except the booth bimbos at Commodore looked
haggard, but their machine was showing a bouncing checkered beach ball. And it
was bouncing faster than Atari's!
Yes, you have them mixed up. Amiga had the bouncing beach ball, with sound.
Atari had nothing.
Than, the juggler demo on amiga came out, and nobody ever talked about
atari & graphics again :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/oqx9qr/35_years_ago_the_amiga_juggler_demo_released_in/
http://www.etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html
