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- From: johnc@mt-inc.com (John Crookshank)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 19:10:34 GMT
- Organization: MCSNet Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1755.6583T585T2486@mt-inc.com>
- References: <4cg8g0$9bh@nntp.interaccess.com> <1996Jan4.093526.51526@cobra.uni.edu> <4clbi8$rjp@ulke.hiMolde.no>
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- On 06-Jan-96 08:23:36, Espen Berntsen (espen) posted:
-
- > sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) wrote:
- >>In article <4cg8g0$9bh@nntp.interaccess.com>,
- >>bjp@psycfrnd.interaccess.com (J. Poag) writes:
- >>> Guess what popped up at my local Amiga dealership with a shiny new
- >>> $795.00 pricetag on it? The official, final, complete release of
- >>> Lightwave 4.0 for the Amiga. The version in the store is on CD-ROm.. A
- >>> diskette-install version will ship soon, apparently. About 80 megs
- >>> worth of stuff on the CD-Rom, all nicely layed out as you would expect
- >>> from any Amiga application.
- >>>
- >>> Looks good. :)
- >>
- >>80 megs of storage is needed!! Looks like the other platforms are not
- >>the only ones that are plagued by bloatness and high price..
-
- > 80 mgs bloated?? On a 600MB cd 80megs is little. Too little to ship it
- > on a CD and too much to ship it on disks.. if you got 80 megs on the CD
- > don't mean you HAVE to copy it to HD....
-
- The software fits on a single floppy disk. The rest of the CD could be
- referred to as "clip art". It contains oodles of 3D objects, postscript
- fonts, etc. And the install program lets you selectively install what you
- want of it.
-
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