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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <370@sas.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 23:06:49 GMT
References: <7425@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <471@hub.ucsb.edu> <44456@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc Cary, NC
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I have a refurbished Amiga and I can assure you that, contrary to the
misinformation (disinformation?) in a recent posting, it does not have
half-brite mode either.  Nor do hardly any of the Amigas I know of in 
this area.  Of course, I *have* had it for a while, so this may not be
what the poster meant.

And even if only 15% of the Amigas out there have it, you risk significantly
pissing off a sizeable minority of Amiga owners vs. providing a very minor 
benefit to the majority.  I can't see that it's worth it.  Certainly Commodore
should discourage this.  Of course there is nothing wrong with having software
that is switchable to use it or not use it, as the case may be.  I don't mind
that new software doesn't look as flashy on my machine as on others, but I 
don't want software to become unusable on my machine.

In any case, if the software market starts orphaning my machine the way the
hardware market already is, I would certainly not consider recommending 
Commodore machines to anybody I liked.
-- 
                                                         --Brian.
(Brian T. Schellenberger)				 ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts

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