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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD/Shareware Database Program Wanted
Keywords: Database, cheap, functional
Message-ID: <776@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 05:44:25 GMT
References: <2909@sugar.uu.net>
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In article <2909@sugar.uu.net>, ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham) writes:
> Can anyone recommend a PD or shareware database system for the Amiga??
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No one, to my knowledge has ever made money off of either of these.  I have
3 shareware programs out there to "test the water".  Asked for a buck; haven't
even had a "ha-ha" letter yet.  One was particularly interesting, in that it
allows you to shift the screen so you can run European games and see the bottom
of the screen (actually, it moves the screen +-x, +-y).  Very useful.  If it
doesn't pay, nobody is going to post anything they might seriously make money
from.

> Lacking such a product, has anyone had good experience with
> an inexpensive commercial product??
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Sorry, not given the lack of market.  Can't make it up on volume.

> For the few odd things I'd like to
> have a database system for, I can't justify shelling out for SuperBase 
> (besides, dongles are hopeless on a 2000!) or like product.  

Really your only choice.  Sorry.  Now if you were interested in a Dbase III+
clone for VMS or UNIX, we could talk.  I have it for the Amiga (hell -- I
developed it there), but am not going to release it; no money in what you
can sell it for in the Ami market, and no volume, since C= doesn't advertise,
and it's viewed as a game machine.

Don't you just love those "I have it but you can't have it" postings?