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- From: burchell@fox.nstn.ca (Paul Burchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 03:54:11 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <2026.6633T1430T759@fox.nstn.ca>
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- >On Thu, 29 Feb 96, Tarjei Knapstad typed the following line(s):
-
- >> On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Brian Baltzell wrote:
- >>
- >> > amiga's suck. They still can't do SVGA, they can't run netscape, they
- >> > can't run quake, they can't run nascar. But best of all they're way
- >> > overpriced. It seems like europeans are the real dummies, they bought
- >> > the dead body of commodore. Get with the program, get Wintel.
- >> I didn't think anyone really wantede to get flamed, but I guess I'm
- >> wrong. Maybe you're just a sad and lonely fucker, who don't have any
- >> friends and just want something in your mailbox...
-
- >Not only that, but the guy is very wrong.
-
- >I can run Netscape on my Amiga. Using Shapeshifter.
- >Both my Amiga's do SVGA. Meaning can handle 1024x768 screens.
- >Overpriced? the current crop is. But mine weren't. Especially
- >the A3000 was very good value for money. *wicked grin*
-
- >Whine : SVGA? Yes, but not out of the box...
- >Answer: So? Neither can a PC. It needs a graphics card as
- > well. And good ones cost as much as Amiga gfx cards.
- >Whine : but for Shapeshifter you need a lot of memory.
- >Answer: Well, Win'95 also needs at least 16MB to be workable.
- > And a fast (at least) 486 processor as well.
-
- >Conclusion: Another misguided Winloser. Or a dumb MS-VisBasic
- > script.
-
- >> "Real stupid european amiga owner"
-
- >And an even more stupid one. because he has two. :-)
- >--__
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- Amigas are the BEST Computers around! i have 5:) guess i'm really stupit:)
- have 1 A3000 3 A500's & 1 A2000,i'm an Amiga Freak! if i see something that
- says "AMIGA" i go crazy:) anyways the Amigas are back,back for the Future!
-
- don't let this asshole get to us,don't reply back to his message,it'll only
- put the Amiga name in a bad spot
-
- Paul..
- CANADA,Nova Scotia
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