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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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Date: 10 May 91 21:27:29 GMT
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In article <24694@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:

   >In article <48624@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:

   >It was probably more like $99.  I don't think the EA stuff was that
   >cheap.  The games were $50 bucks, and except for Marble Madness, they
   >were mostly C64 ports.  Remember Deluxe Paint, Deluxe Video,
   >Deluxe...?  And the software was buggy as hell.

   Buggy, yes.  But, ALL of the Deluxe series were written for the Amiga directly
   they were NOT ports from any other machine.

Correct.  I said the games were ports, not the Deluxe series.

   Mellinger, I've sat here and watched your drivel go by for weeks now, and
   this is the first time (and the last time) I'll get involved in this debate.
   However, I would like to ask that you stop, and I'll tell you why - because
   you are beginning to make a damned fool out of yourself.  It was well enough
   when you tried to paint a picture of the Next machine as a hot machine - 
   that's something I would expect from any fan of any machine, even MS-DOS
   monstrosities.  You have gone from that, however, to making unsupportable
   and just plain stupid statements about the Next line and equally unsupportable
   and ignorant statements about the Amiga, simply to support your own

For example?  My claim that word processing on the Amiga is a bit
lacking?  Could you be more explicit?

   opinions.  And you've had the damned gall to flame everyone else in this
   *Amiga* newsgroup because they've stated their opinions.  Ease off, and
   make it easier on us all.  We aren't stupid, you're not stupid, there's no
   need to act as if we all were.

How many of my opinions are unsupportable?  I'm more interested in
debating the technical merits of the machine than your opinion of
Steve Jobs, or what you think of NeXTWorld.

-Mike