Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: It's really tough to debate with ignorant... Message-ID: <1991May9.202933.5301@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 9 May 91 20:29:33 GMT References: <11785@uwm.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 41 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <11785@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes: > >Think you're going to convince PC users to leave their machines for >these pieces of software? People buy PCs because they NEED to for running the same software they use at work; they don't buy them because they need a machine with superior value. >I'm not sure how much nExt software is available at this time. Enough that it all comes with the machine. >If all of these applications are available, why is the games section >the largest section in Commodore's software pamphlet that came with >our A2500? Everything else looked pathetic. That software pamphlet is old, and is not a complete catalog of all Amiga software. > But of course you can have it for the Amiga. You only have to wait > until the graphics cards are available. And then you'll have a lot > more than 4096 colors as a total palette. > >I'll add that to my list of Amiga products I'm waiting on. Open up any recent, err even old, Amiga World, and look for the numerous ads for Hame E, Colorburst, DCTV, Firecracker, etc. These ads have been in there for MANY months...probably as much as a year. The reason you are still waiting is because you pumped all of your money into a nExt. >-mIKE -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.