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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.053811.10127@usl.edu>
- Sender: anon@usl.edu (Anonymous NNTP Posting)
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:38:11 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- Okay, here are some first impression, and some question. You Amigans
- *barely* advocated the Amiga enough for me to see about getting one,
- and I have: an Amiga1000, with half Meg, a 1080 monitor with a broken
- speaker, and an extra floppy drive. I almost gave up on
- this group, what with Amigoid Whackos telling me, a DUMB PC USER,
- to 'go away' and all.
-
- Yea, verily, this about the rock-bottom as far as Amigas go, and surely
- isn't representational, say, of Dan Barrett's mega-Amiga (wanna let me
- borrow it? 8) ), and some of you will tell me to compare it to a
- 1985 PC, etc etc. Go ahead and waste your time; I'll ignore those
- replies.. it is trivial to type 'd' at the end of you email...
-
- Anyway, here are my First Impressions:
-
- 1) FLICKER-O-RAMA
- 2) They should have orange and blue as the default colors.
- 3) The windowing is rather adnaced for way back then. A Shell resizes
- fine and all.
- 4) The scrollbars *are* proportional after all! Yay!
- 5) The pointer looks goofy.
- 6) Real Low Res-Like.
-
- Question, please:
-
- How in hell do I kill a Shell?! (for example) Some things have that
- square-with-a-dot in the top left, you click on it and it goes away.
- But sometimes there isn't one...and it just stays there.
-
- Why can't I drag a window DOWN so that part of it 'hangs' off the side or
- bottom?
-
- I am Deluxe Paint II here. I can 'drag' the screen down in it... is that
- supposed to do something? How do I toggle from the paint program
- and the WorkBench (which is 1.3.2, by the way)
-
- Real quick like - how do I change the resolution of the workbench, and
- the colors?
-
- Also does someone know how I might hook this baby up to my 386 (which has
- an internal modem) and use a term program FROM the AMiga? You know,
- route it through my PC, going straight to the modem? That way I
- can download stuff.
-
- Where can I get the Work Bench Lander thing? Peter da Silva, you know what
- I mean?
-
- -Dan
- .
-
-
-
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-