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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Marketing suggestion for C-A
Message-ID: <1209@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 06:28:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 06:28:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 09:13:14 EDT
Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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Here is a fantastic way to give the A500 & A2000 a good sendoff, and
it won't cost Commodore megabucks worth of advertising either...

Negotiate with Electronic Arts and give away a free copy of Dpaint I
with each machine.  Dpaint I is obsolete as a commercial product, but
it is a decent application in its own right and is miles ahead of what
Atari is giving away with the ST (NeoChrome).

Accompanying Dpaint I,  Electronic Arts can include mega-advertising
for Dpaint II, including some pictures created with the program.  That
way Dpaint I becomes a "demo version" of Dpaint II, to entice
customers to pay for the upgrade.

I wish I could make a similar suggestion for a good text processing
program, so C-A could make an offer similar to the Macwrite/Macpaint
combo (which Apple discontinued) or the Neochrome/First Word combo
from Atari (not winners, from what I hear on the Atari group, but
better than nothing).

Another idea might be to get Fred to make a "Best of Fred Fish" disk
with the most useful programs from his collection (VT100, Matt's
Shell, etc) and make that a giveaway with the new machines.  As long
as the authors of the software don't mind (and they shouldn't, since
C-A would be performing the exact same function as Fred) then C-A
could give new owners usable software for next to nothing.
-- 

Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
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Amiga hackers do it graphically, with lots of sound effects.
Amiga users do it with their gadgets and proportional sliders.
Aztec will do it, but only if you make it long.
Workbench users would do it, but they need .info first.
CLI users can't do it...they're stuck in their Shell.
Metacomco did it to us with AmigaDOS.

"Mac owners dream in black and white, Atari owners dream in color...
but Amigoids dream using Hold and Modify!"