Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!ncar!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!valnet!joseph From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Amiga Game Machine Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 02:50:22 GMT References: <3651@leah.Albany.Edu> Organization: Valley BBS Network Lines: 42 jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek) writes: > In article <26517@boulder.Colorado.EDU> ngoh@tramp.Colorado.EDU (NGO HIEN D) > > > >My suggestion about which Amiga 500 set-up to purchase would be to > >go through C= and get the educational Amiga 500 system. For > >$799 (when I checked last) you get a 1meg Amiga 500 with 2 drives (one > >internal and the other external) and a color monitor. > > That's $759. All you need to do is get proof that you're in education, > and go to a local dealer. > > >I am not > >sure what software they are currently bundling the system with, though. > > AmigaDOS 1.3, Amiga BASIC, AmigaVision, and AREXX. Ok...you seem to have slipped a little here. With AmigaDOS 1.3.2, you get AmigaBASIC. With 2.0, Commodore dropped AmigaBASIC and added ARexx. AmigaVision only comes with Amigas that are factory equipped with 1 meg RAM (unless a dealer or somethin has added the extra 512k and AmigaVision free etc.) > > >It's the best deal that I have seen for a complete, new system. > >Of course, you have to be a university student/faculty member to > >make the purchase though..... > > Or a faculty/student at a high school, even grade school. > -- > | // Amiga Student on Campus Consultant Jules Cisek I do think | > | \X/ Computing Services Student Assistant SUNYA, NY USA it's good! | > | AMIGA Computer Science Major/Music Minor jac423@leah.albany.edu | -Joseph Hillenburg UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu