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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: No more Starfighter? (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 20:20:40 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- >: Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- >
- >: : It was more than Pirates that killed the Amiga! It was too much
- >: : PD/Shareware, too many people who refused to upgrade their OS versions and
- >: : constantly demanded backwards compatibility, too many people who refused t
- o
- >: : upgrade their computers, and too many users who wanted too much for free.
- >
- >: I'd suggest you bite your tongue. Voluntarily free resources such as
- >: your "too much PD/Shareware" have been what's kept Amiga users around and
- >: interested.
- >
- >Gary, are you on some kind of drug? It is the PD/Shareware that kept
- >Amiga alive.
- >GEEZ! Wake up!
- >--
- >==========================================================================
- >maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com
- >http://www.kdcol.com/~maverick/
- >ftp> ftp.kdcol.com anonymous--- email passwd
- >Ftp directory /users/m/maverick
- >Amiga Links and Links to Spain.
- >==========================================================================
-
- we can either bitch because there is no software at the local dealers or we
- can get more of our many talented pd/shareware authors to either sell
- direct or thru dealers.
-
- We can NOT have it both ways. Want to walk into CompUSA and buy software?
- That was my point ...
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
- -------------------------------------------------
- Gemini2@cup.portal.com Portal Communications | TEAM AMIGA is a grassroots
- 1:106/7512.1 Club Amiga-Houston,Tx | movement designed to provide
- | support to all AMIGA users,
- Proud supporter of Amiga Technologies | to AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, and
- Asst Co-ordinator ---> *TEAM AMIGA* | to all AMIGA vendors.
- -------------------------------------------------
- 43 year old Beta-Tester AND Central American Exporter!
-
- ... Sportster 28.8k v.everything!
- More retrains than a dumb dog!
-
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