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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 05:35:03 GMT
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- On 1 Apr 1996 15:38:28 GMT, lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen) wrote:
-
- >: It's no ignorence. Everything else is a customized graphics mode.
- >: The 640x400 is the maximum practical non-overscanned resolution of the
- >: non-AGA Amiga.
- >
- > How about 640x512...? ;P
-
- 50 Hz, flickery PAL. Yes.
-
- >: Yes, my Amiga did 724x484, but I suspect most Amiga
- >: owners didn't fiddle quite as much with it as I did.
- >
- > But now they do, and 800x600I is quite usable.
-
- If amazingly slow, yes. And don't forget the Hz refresh rate. :(
-
- >: It's pathetic compared with what's on the PC. If you think otherwise
- >: you just haven't seen anything other than Netscape. Try webbing over
- >: to www.windows95.com.
- >
- > What exacly are you refering to?
-
- Err...the World Wide Web? Or, what software? Go to the
- Networking/Internet section, and just look around. Just LOOK at all
- the cool stuff, Juergen.
-
- > But, I tried installing a Mitsumi Q-speed on a Win95 Siemens
- > P133 the other day, and it removed my mouse-driver.
- > After I reinstalled the driver it worked fine, right up until
- > the moment when my senior officer rebooted the machine and the
- > mouse was dead again.
- > He is NOT a computer illiterate but ended up reinstalling Win95.
- > No virus that we're aware of - go figure...
-
- I haven't the slightest idea how an IDE CDROM with an ALREADY
- ESTABLISHED IDE port and IRQ can screw up a serial mouse with an
- ALREADY ESTABLISHED serial port and IRQ. I'd want to look at those
- machines. If you're on the Internet, put C-ME or somesuch from
- Falleron on there and I'll look at them sometime over the Internet.
-
- >: Putting up with crap is why I got sick of the Amiga. No software, no
- >: hardware, too expensive.
- >
- > Microsoft are less "crappy" you feel?
-
- MS's great. It works fine, and fast, the first time, every time.
- Win95's great.
-