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|    Andreas Kohlbach to Brandon Taylor    |
|    Re: Color version of "The Pri    |
|    19 Jan 20 12:52:54    |
      INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3       REPLYADDR ank@spamfence.net       REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP       MSGID: <87zhejfi4p.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> 713a75e3       REPLY: <3e9f1975-f640-4faf-87e1-48056fd14d2f@googlegroups.com> 603b93c0       PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05       On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:34:17 -0800 (PST), Brandon Taylor wrote:       >       > Yeah, well, as J.B. Wood just said, even if you had a color /printer,/       > you couldn't really use it to its full potential on an 8-bit Commodore       > machine, as there wasn't any /software/ that printed in color. No, I       > think the best bet would have been an Apple II series machine, or else       > an "IBM-compatible" PC. On the other hand, a Commodore enthusiast       > would have to wait a little while for the Amiga series to show up. In       > that case, what was the best software for color printing on an Amiga?              IIRC we got :decent" results with Deluxe Paint. I cannot remember what       printer it was. It was in the later 1980s and was a dot matrix machine       with a colored ribbon.       --       Andreas              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/5 15/0 2 19/36 34/999 90/1 104/115 106/201 114/224       SEEN-BY: 114/702 705 706 116/18 123/140 128/2 73 187 253 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 218/700 222/2 226/16 227/114 229/101 275 426 1014 230/150       SEEN-BY: 230/152 240/1120 5832 249/1 206 307 317 400 250/1 261/38       SEEN-BY: 261/100 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/103 1056 291/1 111 298/25       SEEN-BY: 305/1 3 310/2 312/2 317/3 320/119 219 322/757 340/400 342/13       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 640/1321 712/848 801/161 189 2320/105 3005/1       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 5020/1042       PATH: 770/3 1 712/848 261/38 15/0 317/3 229/426           |
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