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From: [e-mail] (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 01:13:42 GMT
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On 2 Apr 1996 07:02:29 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (David Corn) writes:
>>On 24 Mar 1996 06:01:09 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:
>>
>>>Starts at?  What exactly do you mean by starts at?  640x200x4 colors nobody
>>>uses, why would they when they can use more?  Again you are either trying
>>>your best to be stupid or it comes natural for you.
>>
>>Either you believe everyone has an AGA Amiga with sw flickerfixer, or
>>A3000 w/hw flickerfixer, or you're just whining.  I have this
>>overwhelming impress you speak out of one side of your mouth when
>>talking about Amiga prices (ie no monitor - use your TV!) and another
>>when telling me "no one" uses 640x200x4.
>>
>
>Oh god, the mighty Corn Man speaks again.. with his usual idiotic thinking.
>
>- No Amiga user on the planet has to us 640x200x4 colors.. You tell me
>one single Amiga that is forced to use that mode? and can't use better?
>Use your brain this time.

You actually quoted my text, you actually WROTE (not just quoted) what
I wrote, and you STILL didn't read and comprehend it?

>- Corn man, I have never in my life mentioned a TV hookup to a computer.
>You are a moron as usual.  I use SVGA Monitor thank you and would never
>suggest using a TV...  Try using some more brain cells..

Many Amiga owners do suggest this as a cost-cutting measure, laughable
as it may be.

>- I Have never seen anyone use that mode, corn man, unless they wanted
>to look at an ugly screen, you and others are just trying to be stupid,
>like I said.

The Amiga has an ugly screen - no argument there.

>What is 800x600 then?  on a non-aga Amiga?  Gee, not as smart as you
>thought you were, are you.  haha. :)  You don't have a clue about the
>AMiga.

Sure - watch your speed nosedive.  Even in just 8 bit color it is
unusable.

>Oh yeah, one must fiddle with an Amiga to use the STANDARD Amiga Preference
>Program for overscan and screen mode.  Yeah you are such a tinker toy to
>have figured it out.. hahahahaha.. God how lame can you be.

Lame?

>Of course I do, it is something I pluged into my Amiga, or I could buy
>an Amiga with if I wanted to, already installed.  And your almighty
>point was supoose to be?  Yes? what?

The Amiga's graphics, as they are on the stock machine, are nearly
unusable.  But yes, many PCs have built-in graphics.  If you'd had a
clue about the PC (or if you'd followed threads on here before..well,
you've done that...ok, if you'd REMEMBERED threads on here before...)
you'd know this.

>>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.
>
>Ibm and mac os's are pathetic compared to Amiga OS.  My Internet appliations
>are very professional and do evertyhing I want them to and more.  You havent
>even seen them so you can't even make a valid point, as if you could anyways.

...he didn't answer the question.  Perhaps he didn't understand it?

>Yes guy, I did.. It is a simple operation, you first take the computer case
>off, plug the card in, put the case beak on, install the driver software with
>the install, and hey what do you know..  It is installed..  Your ibm is
>pathetic to add hardware to..  Face it.. it is WELL KNOWN FACT!

Ah - quite a bit more complicated then moving something to LIBS:,
then.  So you lied.  :)

>You are illiterate about everything.  Ok so your ibm has had auto config
>for 10 years?  Gee the rest of the world must be wrong, and the rest of
>the world must of been using a different machine.

No one claimed it's had absolute and total autoconfig for the past 10
years.  But your opinions on the PC of today are for the most part
wrong.

>or C) You have no clue and were lucky you didn't have a conflict like
>the millions that are having problems with plug and pray junk.

On dozens of machines?  Doubtful.  I know what to do to make things
work.  It isn't difficult.  Generally if it works in WFWG it works in
Win95.

>Has tons of software and hardware, cost more but it is worth the cost.
>You have always been clueless.. Your total joke comments about the AMiga
>shows how cluless you are.

:)  Whatever.  People are still leaving the Amiga in droves, and I don't think your
"argument" (mostly insulting the other party) helps matters at all.

>>You still haven't told me how it's failed...
>
>It failed to offer people what mircosoft claimed it would.. It is a crap
>os like everything else they have put out.
>As an OS, it is a failure.

What you've said doesn't answer my question.  In fact, NONE of what
you've typed really answers anything you posted...which makes me
wonder why you post.