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- From: byran.lee@svis.org (Byran Lee)
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- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 21:12:00 -0500
- Organization: SVIS 304-592-2682 800-SOFT-VAL
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <90.41091.1052@svis.org>
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- fa> Message-ID: <1468.6679T920T2467@ak.planet.gen.nz>
- fa> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- >>On Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:07:44 GMT, Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- >>wrote:
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- >>>>>>Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- >>>>>>card working? I don't think so.
- fa> >>
- >>>Yeah? have you tried it David?
- fa> >>
- >>>maybe the question you should be asking is
- >>>"What experiance do YOU have?"
- fa> >>
- >>>That is EXACTLY what I did when I put my CV64 card in.
-
- >>You copied one driver from the floppy to DEVS: and then everything
- >>magically started working? You did NOTHING else? Frankly, I find
- >>that hard to believe. Other Amiga advocates have posted saying it
- >>takes significantly more than that.
-
- fa> no, they contradiced your statement that "Graphics cards are easier to set
- fa> up under win95", now, in my opinion, Two clicks and then selecting your new
- fa> screen mode is much easier than loading up "Detect new hardware" and diceing
- fa> with PnP... And it is faster, no sitting there accessing the hard disk for 5
- fa> minutes. Therefore, the Amiga is easier to set up than the PC.
-
- >>>It is only slow if you put it into 256 colours.. anything up to 64 colours
- >>>and it runs fine.. and before you start 64 colours is fine for a computer
- >>>without a graphics card..
-
- >>We'll have to disagree on that one.
-
- fa> Is that what you say when someone makes a valid point?
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- >>>Pull you GFX card out of your PC and see how far you get..
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- >>My PB60 didn't have one. My Toshiba doesn't have one either. Next
- >>argument, please?
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- fa> What, no SVGA card? at all? You are still using CGA then?
-
- No, eurodork. These machines come with SVGA-level graphics
- intergrated onto the motherboard. If you are going to comment
- about PC's do yourself a favor and *learn* something about them
- before shooting your stupid mouth off...
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