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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Marketing suggestion for C-A
Message-ID: <1833@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 12:04:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: drivax.1833
Posted: Fri Jun 12 12:04:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 23:48:50 EDT
References: <1209@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digitalis Research, Inc.
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In article <1209@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:

>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  Dpaint I is obsolete as a commercial product, but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).

Atari does NOT give away NEOchrome. The only software that comes with the
ST is BASIC (not Logo any more) and a couple of desk accessories. I wish they
WOULD give away their new version of NEOchrome with the computer. NEOchrome
is best at just those things DEGAS is lousy at (such as fine detail), so it
makes it a perfect complement.

>Neochrome/First Word combo
>from Atari (not winners, from what I hear on the Atari group, but
>better than nothing).

They've stopped giving away 1st Word, too. Now you have to BUY it.

>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.

I think it'd be more appropriate for Commodore to point the new Amigan
to his/her nearest User Group, and perhaps send a note to the people who
run the group with the name and address, so they could send him/her some
literature.

There are too many good PD programs for the Amiga to fit the best onto
just ONE disk. Or even five.

- Bruce
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