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From: raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <4929@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 22 Jul 89 07:33:32 GMT
References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: raw@mcnc.org.UUCP (Russell Williams)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.UUCP (Evan Mitchell) writes:
>In article <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> mikey@nrc.com (Mikey Goodglick) writes:
>>Bad news people.... Cinemaware may be getting out of producing software
>>for the Amiga.  WHY???  TOO much piracy.  I have this on VERY good authority.
>>The only way that this can be changed is for YOU to buy thier stuff...rather
>>than copying it.  It is up to us.  I for one would like to see Cinemaware
>>keeping up the good work on the Amiga.
>>PIRACY DOES HURT US ALL!

	You know, I've been hearing people complain about piracy on the Amiga
for a long time now, but it's strange that they make it sound Amiga specific.
Now, I'm sure that the owners of different machines exhibit different 
tendencies as a group, but who is Cinemaware going to make their games for?
The C-64?  The Apple IIGs?  The Atari ST?  I've know a lot of people with
these machines, and frankly, it seems like piracy is much more widespread
than on the Amiga.  The IBM has a great deal of piracy when it comes to games.
The only computer that Cinemaware makes software for that I haven't seen an
equivalent amount of piracy for is the Macintosh.  Are they only going to make
Macintosh games from now on?
	As a side point, it also behooves them to make games for the Amiga,
because the computer mags carry reviews of them typically with pictures taken
from the Amiga, which makes the game look better than what their version will
turn out to be. :-)

Russell