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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3226.0. "ProWrite upgrade - telephone number?" by JGO::CHAPMAN () Mon Dec 18 1989 11:10

    Does anyone have the phone number of New Horizons software.
    
    Despite writing to them asking for upgrade details for ProWrite,
    I have never heard anything from them. So that I have the ammunition,
    can somebody please also post full details of the upgrade offer
    (front cover of manual?, $$$? , free v3 etc) and details of any
    offers ever received for ProScript.
    
    Thanks 
    
    Colin
    
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3226.1I just got mine.LEDS::BUSCHDave Busch at NKS1-2Mon Dec 18 1989 16:1516
                       <<< Note 3226.0 by JGO::CHAPMAN >>>
    
<    Despite writing to them asking for upgrade details for ProWrite,
<    I have never heard anything from them. So that I have the ammunition,
<    can somebody please also post full details of the upgrade offer
<    (front cover of manual?, $$$? , free v3 etc) and details of any
<    offers ever received for ProScript.
    
The deal is, send $20 + $5 S&H to New Horizons (address inside manual) along 
with your PROGRAM disk. They will replace both the program and system disks and 
include a coupon good for a free update to rev 3.0, when it's available.

I sent in my $25 on December 2nd and my wife phoned me to tell me that the 
update arrived today.

Dave
3226.2I'll phone first!JGO::CHAPMANTue Dec 19 1989 03:559
    Thanks for the info.
    
    As I said, I have already written, but no response. Since I'm in
    Europe, Iwanted to check the postage price etc. and give them a
    blast for not sending me details or answering letters - so I'd still
    like the phone number before sending my disc into a potential black
    hole!
    
    Colin
3226.3BOMBE::MOOREBaN CaSe_sEnSiTiVe iDeNtIfIeRs!Tue Dec 19 1989 16:171
    The number listed in their ad is (512) 328-6650.
3226.4Slightly different outside USJGO::CHAPMANMon Jan 08 1990 09:3410
    I phoned them and sent off for it. BUT the message I got from them
    was that the deal for customers outside the States is:
    
    - $30 (Ok, an extra five bucks for postage ain't unreasonable)
    
    - NO 3.0 upgrade deal. This pissed me off slightly. I did suggest
    that they should make it available for a nominal cost to cover postage,
    and the answer was "maybe we will", but definately no committment.
    
    Colin
3226.5ProWrite 3.0 Has ArrivedULTRA::KINDELBill Kindel @ BXB1Tue May 15 1990 11:3418
    I bought ProWrite 2.5 in November, so I wasn't entitled to a free
    upgrade to 3.0.  When the time came though, New Horizons didn't forget
    me and I received the official upgrade offer, which I filled out
    immediately and sent in with $55 and my ProWrite 2.5 program disk.
    
    Turnaround was only a couple of weeks, to my surprise.  While I believe
    ProWrite 3.0 has been priced $30 too high relative to its competition
    ($180 vs PenPal @150 and Excellence! @200), I am VERY impressed by it. 
    Obviously, the folks at New Horizons have been paying attention to
    their users.  They've made significant advances in BOTH user-friendliness
    AND functionality.  That's no mean feat.  As their advertising claims,
    "the best just got better".
    
    What's missing?  I'd like the graphic editing capability of PenPal (or
    of geoPublish on the C=64/128), so I could use ProWrite as a poor-man's
    desktop publishing package.  ProScript needs to be upgraded to handle
    ProWrite 3.0's new functionality (if you don't use the new features, it
    still works) and New Horizons is promising an upgrade "real soon now".
3226.6Time to ask for mine.JGO::CHAPMANWed May 16 1990 12:0811
    I was just going to ask if anybody had recived the 3.0 upgrade yet
    when I saw -.1.
    
    After writing to New Horizons (see -.2) I did indeed receive my free my
    free 3.0 offer with my 2.5. So, it sounds like time to send in the
    form!
    
    Not only a good product, but also a good company.
    
    
    Colin