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   Message 3,009 of 4,328   
   Andreas Kohlbach to Brandon Taylor   
   Re: Color version of "The Pri   
   19 Jan 20 12:52:54   
   
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   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.   
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   Andreas   
      
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