From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga Inadequacy
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:48:19 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.211607.24483@crash.cts.com>, dvan@pnet01.cts.com (David Vandeven) writes:
> 
>  I used to own an Amiga.  A 2500 with a Hurricane 25 MHZ '030 board and a Sony
> 1304 monitor.  I had a Genlock board, 8 megs of RAM (2MB chip), and a
> 68882 math chip.  My 230 megs of drive space were almost filled with
> excellent multimedia, scientific and game software.  I had software for
> almost every application I could think of.
	You didn't know how good you had it, most of us other Amiga users who
are financially strapped would KILL for one of these systems.
>   So you might ask me why I now own a Macintosh Classic II, with a little 9
> inch B&W monitor and 16 bit
> data path.  The answer is ZOOMRECTS.  In Amiga parlance, "rubber banding
> windows."  The first time I saw a Macintosh, with those exciting little
> lines zooming around, I knew the pain of inadequacy.  Not only did the
> little lines zip around,  but when you selected a menu item, the item name
> BLINKED! Now THAT was excitement!
	Big fat hairy deal, qas a local cat in Muncie would say.  I still think
that games ae more exciting.  Of course, people are excitied about different
things, which I will get into later.
>   Every time I used Workbench, I had this hollow feeling in my stomach.  It
> just wasn't the same without those
> little ZOOMRECTS!!  I knew that if I had them on my screen, my whole life
> would change. I would become accepted.  My clothes would smell laundry
> fresh, all the time!  I would have dates on friday night.
>   I dreamed fevered, sweaty dreams about little zooming lines.  I thought
> about ZOOMRECTS
> when I was with my girlfriend.  I COULD STAND IT NO MORE! So I sold my
> Amiga for $100, and bought the only macintosh I could afford the very next
> day.
	Truly the markings of what I would consider a morally corrupt person. 
(Sorry-just my humble opinion.)  Either your girlfriend is really ugly, or your
mentally insane.  What you also didn't realize was that you would have saved a
lot of money by just buying Amax II for your Amiga.
	Since you didn't do this, you sold your excellent Amiga system for only
$100, and now the only thing you can derive excitment from is ZOOMRECTS.  No
nice, action games with color, or anything else like that.
	This should really concern you, me deeming you morally inept, because I
know of where I speak from several of my acquaintances (I am a college
student.) 
>   Now I sit here blissfully, launching multiple copies of TEACHTEXT, watching
> my little lovely ZOOMRECTS all day long.  
> *Sorry, an unnamed Amigaphile put me up to this based on an extremely silly
> 2am conversation....  He stated that Zoomrects was the one thing really
> inferior about the Amiga.*
	So, is this a joke, or not?  Are you mentally insane, or do you just
want to play with everybody who reads this newsgroup's minds?  Well, you've
succesfully played with my minds.
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	B.T.W.-I am pretty sure I have seen some Amiga PD disks that do this.
		It really doesn't matter, because to me, it seems this is just
		a trivial matter.

	If you didn't mean this as a joke, then I am glad the Amiga crowd has
one less crazy user to worry about. . .

	If you did mean this as a joke, why didn't you include any :-)?

	Besides, by my calendar it is two weeks done and past from April fools
day.
	//
       //  Kyle
    \\//
		Only Amiga makes it possible*1,
		All others make it plausible*2.

*1Except for ZOOMRECTS?  (That sounds like what happens when you drive too
fast!)
*2Except for the Macintrash, whoops, I mean Macintosh.
                      
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