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From: barrett@meridn.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!
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Date: 29 Aug 90 11:40:11 GMT
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In article <191@coplex.UUCP>, dannie@coplex.UUCP (Dannie Gregoire) writes...
>I had heard a while ago that Prodigy was going to port to the Amiga, so
>I thought I'd give them a call to see if this was true.  Well it is not.
>They said that they are NOT going to port to the Amiga "any time soon."

If you have a bridgeboard, Prodigy runs fine on an Amiga and will meet
minimum requirements (CGA, 512k, XT or better, MSDOS V3.n or better). I
was a subscriber and used it for quite a while on my AMIGA this way. Anytime
I interracted with Prodigy support staff however, I always told them I had an
XT clone.

IMHO however, I dropped it because it was slow, limited, and not worthwhile to
an Amiga owner. There are no club groups except IBM PC's, and bulletin board
censorship occurs often and for silly reasons (mostly due to their desire to
cater the system to the "family" rather than the computer enthuseist.
Mentioning a computer system other than IBM/compatible has a chance of being
deleted. There was no download/upload ability (at least at that time), no
CHAT, no conferencing, and no email outside of Prodigy. If you have access to
USENET, I can't think of anything you'd want from Prodigy.

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