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From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Empire v.3 / Empire II Information
Message-ID: <1671@atari.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 01:48:14 GMT
References: <8908291701.AA18947@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
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in article <8908291701.AA18947@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, PSYLONE@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Brian Taylor) says:

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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

To me "financial justification" reads "we expect to make boatloads of
money in the IBM arena, and we will port it to the ST (and other
platforms) if we see that a good number of people will buy this program
(enough to pay for porting costs etc)."


Dan