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From: kenfair@flammulated.rice.edu (Kenneth Jason Fair)
Subject: Re: Your Ultima Quote
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Date: Wed, 1 May 91 02:59:07 GMT

In article <82A0491E19FF207BB1@MACALSTR.EDU> SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes:

>	A lot of the professional users are 8 year old kids who use
>the IIgs's in school. Many are like us who go to high school/college
>who are having enough problems finding the cash to get our GS up to
>a resonable technological level. {i.e. upgrading the stock 256K GS
>to 2.25 megs with a hard drive and Zip chip} And thats a lot of money
>for us to be spending on upgrading our system. I don't see Zip Chip
>or Quality Computers complaining about weak IIgs sales...

Absolutely true.  I've just shelled out about $700 over the past six
months buying a hard drive and increased memory and a modem.  I can't
afford to buy every new game that comes out on the market.  Once I get
the hardware, then I can get the software. 

>	Yea, and how many GS owners were thrilled to see games that
>didn't take advantage of their computer? Gee. Dblehirses - more goofy
>color bleeds on my RGB monitor. Even some simple graphics mods with an
>improved sound system would be better!  But no, we got the universal AII
>version... And I bet a lot of the active II market, which is in the
>IIgs market, held off buying the software because we wanted the IIgs
>version. Hey, we paid the extra dough for the Graphics and Sound, right?
>Granted, its a catch 22, but thats what happens...

Of course.  That's why I bought a IIGS in the first place.  I wait for
software to come out in the GS version, but sometimes it doesn't (like
Bard's Tale III).

>	Overall, yes, Apple IIgs owners should be buying more software.
>But its up to the companies to GET THEIR PRODUCT KNOWN!!! {Yes, you too
>Apple!} Otherwise Joe IIgs User, who lives in Florida 300 miles away
>from ANY software store that sells II wares, and reads Incider isn't going to
>know diddly about the IIgs software availble.

I get almost NO advertising from software companies even though I get
InCider and am on the nets and I ALWAYS register my software.  If
companies advertised in InCider, maybe InCider wouldn't feel it had to
cover Macs as well...  :-I

Ken

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