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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: Marketing suggestion for C-A
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 00:36:28 EDT
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[ BTW: Can anyone give me the price of an Amiga 500, in
[ German Marks.  512k, one drive & monitor.
[ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>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.

One *major* problem.  Dpaint I does not work with expansion ram, and thus
will not work on the new machines.  What a sendOFF!
Dpaint I is not very multitasking compatible, either.


>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.

Now this is a idea I like.  I have long wondered why computer companies don't
take better advantage of free and freely redistributable software.  Too much
liabilty, I guess.  Bruises to the corprate immage and all that.  Work with
PD authors, like Hayes Haugen, and see to it that "BlitzFont", or whatever
is not needed on the new machines.

Semi-related:
I really wish Caryoln's MORE program had made it to the Workbench disk.  That
way we could count on a Workbench text-viewer always available.  (Only one
default tool for a project icon is a *PAIN* in this regard.  more, less, reader
view, textview, preview, docreader etc... any are acceptable)


>then C-A
>could give new owners usable software for next to nothing.

But would SOFTWARE companies like this?!  The market for a programmer's editor
is kinda down_the_tubes if everyone has Matt's DME...


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