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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: You Lucky Bastards!!!
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Hi guys! Please don't take the subject seriously :)
You can't even imagine the luck you have for living in the USA (the most of
you, anyway).
You see, finally I received my LW4.0 Rev.A Amiga version... Do you know how
much did that @#%#%#$$% cost?! You don't, huh?! Weeeeelll, let me tell you:
LW upgrade : $149
Freight : $107
Custom rights: $ 91.27
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Total $347.27
WOW, that's an expensive upgrade!!!
AND... I didn't find the dongle anywhere! I hope it works with the old 3.5
dongle (I didn't install the program yet 'cause I don't have CD-ROM). What can
you say, Amiga owners, did you receive a dongle?! Or did the custom guys lost
mine? :((
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OK, I installed it. It works (most of it!!!) and it is slower than 3.5. But
not as much as some people said around here. The test I made was 5'50'' in 3.5
and now is 7'32''.
On the half an hour I playd with it, I found that the arrows near the gadgets
(those '<>' that are supposed to increase/decrease the respective percentage)
still don't work and that in the surfaces preview I can't get the 'checkered
background' to work either :(
I hope I don't find more unpleasant surprises...
Robert Cohen, you did well not upgrading you current version (that does much