Hello group,


My membership to this group has just been approved, so I am posting here
for the first time. Please forgive any faux-pas I may commit, it won't be
by malicious intent.

The reason for my presence is simple. Can't quite remember where I was
reading at the time, but someone mentioned www.amigarealm.com, which I
thought sounded interesting enough for a quick visit - and it was. It led
me, as surfing is supposed to do, eventually to the MadeOnAmiga website!

So what's the excitement about? Well, I know some PC users who were trying
to tell me that it was quite impossible to create a website on my chosen
platform, simply because of some commercial site, that advertises pricey
web-design packages, only mentions the win-erm and mac-erm machines, and
not a word about Amiga. Some ppl just can't accept the fact that all you
need to write HTML code is a decent text editor - and a brain. Showing
them the Aminet entry to MetalWeb was useless too, since that is not on a
glamorous, glossy and hype-filled page, but only described using some dry,
technical text in an 'incomprehensible' readme. Not to mention that less
than 500 KB seems a joke for any 'serious' application, when you compare
it to the tens of MB that one of those other packages weigh in at. ;-)

As a result, my website is now peppered with link-logos to MadeOnAmiga,
and those PC users try to tell me that they never said the things they did
and I must have misunderstood - sound familiar? Hmm, better stop here.

Oh, and I still haven't introduced myself? Okay, I'm just a boring kind of
guy, who started coding on mainframes in some misty past, jumped into home
computing with the old ZX81 in '80, sniffed at the BBC micro and graduated
to Amiga in '89.

Write me off as a geek and you won't be far off the mark.


Cheers,

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Paul :.................: strandedUFO : http://www.sufo.estates.co.uk :.: