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If you bought your computer with a 2.0 operating system already installed,
let me tell you about an exciting program that came out a few years ago that
you might really enjoy.
It's called Workbench 1.3.
Please...indulge me for a moment.
First, picture the cool, deep blue of the ocean...gulls flying overhead,
the crashing of the waves upon the rocks...
Now picture a sterile, modern apartment filled with chrome, plastic and
steel.
What kind of person are you?
When you fire up the exciting Workbench 1.3 program, you'll gaze upon that
deep, blue interlaced screen and think you've gone to Computer Heaven.
With a dark blue screen, you can tone down the jittery white color until
there's almost none of that dreaded interlace flicker, and voila!, twice the
screen space compared to the non-interlace mode. Which are you in now? Does
your screen vibrate to beat hell when you go into interlace? Don't you feel
a little cheated when you find out that a "flicker-fixer" card costs some
real bucks? Don't you feel kind of stupid with that cheap "flicker-fixer"
plastic panel you've got covering your screen, muting out the bright,
vibrant, natural, Amiga colors in your pictures and animations?
Move over, you're not alone.
And here's something I bet you haven't thought about: what about the effect
of the background color on your mind? Are you aware of what happens to the
creative side of your brain when it's main input is gray, as referred to a
deep, clear blue. Or a rich desert brown. Or a soft mauve.
Or your most favorite color of all.
Wonder about it, won't you?
And what about all that constant window-shuffling? Aren't you getting just
a little tired of losing things behind the Workbench window? Doesn't there
seem like there's something, well, wrong?
Yes, the amazing Workbench 1.3 fixes all that, and more! Now, stop me if
this seems like an incredible advancement in "screen technology", but with
Workbench 1.3, the Workbench window ISN'T a window...it's the entire screen!!
That way, you don't have any of that fussing around with windows, constantly
losing things, constantly fussing with gadget boxes, etc, etc. What a pain!
With 1.3, all the directory windows and CLI boxes you open up are right there
on the faithful Workbench screen, nothing lost, no constant game of Window
Shuffle. The Workbench screen has, of course, little click boxes in the
upper-right corner, so if you want to skip to your term prog, paint kit or
DU, presto! And when you're in the paint kit, or making a call, you always
know that all that Workbench stuff is faithfully back there on the Workbench
screen, right where it belongs.
Oh, about those screen click boxes. You won't believe this, but there are
TWICE as many on the incredible Workbench 1.3 screen! Yes, you can exercise
literally twice the control over your screens you ever thought imaginable!
What's that? You just plain ol' don't believe that such a technological
marvel exists? Why, just last night I had the Workbench, my DU, and the paint
kit all up at the same time. If my click boxes had just gone in one
direction, I would have gone from the Workbench, to the DU, to the paint kit,
and then been stuck! No nice clicky boxes on the paint kit, of course.
Stuck! Oh, sure, I've got the ol' left-Amiga-M & N, but those don't always
work right, and it might have taken me YEARS to get back to the DU if I hadn't
been so fortunate as to be using the amazing Workbench 1.3.
But okay, I hear what you're saying. Sure, having functional click boxes
and a viable interlace mode is nice, but what about the gritty stuff? The
commands! Well, that's where the fun begins.
Now, I don't want to insult your computer knowledge or anything, but you
know that WBStartup drawer, where you drag the icons of programs you want
started up in the startup-sequence? Well, hold on to your hat, with the
amazing Workbench 1.3, they actually DON'T treat you like an idiot...they
actually let you edit the startup-sequence yourself!! Now, I know what you're
thinking: how could you, without any prior programming experience, tackle
such an imposing task? Well, that's part of what makes the Workbench 1.3
package so attractive: you actually USE many of the programs on the
Workbench disk, and (brace yourself) you'll actually find yourself using
"many", if not MOST of the CLI commands! Unlike now, where you're probably
using about a tenth of them. Yes, with one quick change of your 2.0 ROM to
1.3, you can go from bordering on being a blithering computer idiot to prac-
tically being in total command!!
But wait! It gets even better! You can actually keep your 2.0 ROM around,
on a switch, so that in the improbable event that you want to run some game
or program that doesn't have the power to operate under more than one
operating system, you can easily compensate for the program's defect!
There's a lot more, but I don't want to give away ALL the secrets!
Don't delay! Order yours today!!
%Z