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From: PSYLONE@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Brian Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Empire v.3 / Empire II Information
Message-ID: <8908291701.AA18947@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 29 Aug 89 16:30:58 GMT
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In response to messages regarding EMPIRE on this list, I sent the following
message to Mark Baldwin (the person who wrote the ST version of EMPIRE) on
BIX:

> ==========================
> interstel/the.pub #79, from btaylor, 434 chars, Mon Aug 28 12:36:12 1989
> There is/are comment(s) on this message.
> --------------------------
> TITLE: Empire v3.0/II
> I am a subscriber to the USENET comp.sys.atari.st conference, and one of the
> topics of late is the release of these products for the ST computer. Much of
> the talk may be described as "discouraged" by it being "put on hold" et. al..

> I have read here that these products ARE in fact being worked on
> (MS-DOS platform anyway) and would like some info to take back and submit to
> the list.
>
> Thanks greatly,

> - Brian

To which his response was:

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interstel/the.pub #80, from mbaldwin, 433 chars, Tue Aug 29 10:10:31 1989
This is a comment to message 79.
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There is a Version 3.0 in development.  The original target machine is
the IBM, however, there MAY be conversions to the other machines.  The big
problem is how to financially justify the work.

There is also an Empire II in development.  It is currently on hold due to
other projects but work should be resumed early next year.  A guess might
be that it'll be available on the IBM for Christmas 90.  But that's only
a guess.

Mark

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Seems pretty "vague" regarding the ST situation to me ... what exactly is
"financial justification"? I, for one, would like to have this excellent
program in its updated version(s)! I'll save any replies I get personally
or via the list and upload them to Mark, for whatever they're worth :-).

- Brian