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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Empire v.3 / Empire II Information
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Date: 7 Sep 89 16:58:44 GMT
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In article <480025@hpdml93.HP.COM> rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) writes:
>Dan Moore writes:
>
>        If you were trying to port Empire to some machine that was 
>strange and new, I would agree.  Porting Empire II wouldn't make sense
>considering the low volume of sales in the Atari arena.  However,
>the Atari is Mark's "ole stompin' grounds."  Will it really take more
>than 2 or 3 months to port it over?

From looking at the IBM PC version of Empire, it would seem that
Mark wrote GEM emulation routines for the PC so that it would look
more like the ST ;-). It shouldn't take anywhere near 2 to 3 months
to port Empire II. However, if they aren't going to also sell to
the British market, it might not be worth their while.

Time for me to write them a letter telling them how much I want to
buy Empire II. Empire is the only commercial game I've ever purchased.

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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.