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Atari UK really do seem to be pushing the Falcon here in the UK.
They have been taking it to the directors of the popular computer
games programs with a view to getting it shown on the programs.

Someone has already reported the review of the Falcon on the program
'Bad Influence', where they showed ray-traced animations and the
excellent 16-bit sampling.

The Falcon was on TV again last night, on the Channel 4 program 'Gamesmaster'

This program consists of kids and celebrities competing on different games,
but they also have reviews and special features.

Last night they had a feature on the new 32-bit machines, namely the Falcon,
the Acorn A3010 and the Commodore A1200. They had a spokesman from each of
the companies talking about their new machines. Atari were shown first and
Commodore last!

The demonstrations of the machines were a bit hard to see because they were
shown behind the spokeman, but the Falcon looked very inpressive.

The demo was a ray-traced animation of a colourful cartoon-style bird
walking along a pavement(sidewalk). The bird was held in the centre of the
screen, and the pavement and wall behind were scrolled along in an isometric
view giving the impression that the bird was walking down the street.

The guy from Atari also stressed the 16-bit recording and playback at
'better' than CD quality.

The demo of the A1200 was just an ordinary looking Amiga game.

It has also been reported that a new games program to be broadcast at 6:30
in the evening every weekday on the satellite channel Sky One may use
a Falcon to run a game that viewers can play using touch-tone phones.
The Falcon is being considered because the DSP casnn be used to process the
incoming calls from the contestants.

So, it doesn't look at all bad here in the UK at the moment in terms of
marketing.

Paul Donovan
cstadbs@csv.warwick.ac.uk