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From: plague@milton.u.washington.edu (Jack Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimWorld
Message-ID: <9531@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 23:55:33 GMT
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In article <7644@ll1a.ATT.COM> cej@ll1a.att.com (C. E. T. L. Jones) writes:
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>	Anybody remember Penquin Software?
>	It was a company that sold games for the Apple II.  They also
>thought their might be some truth in what you've said.
>	They lowered there prices (around $19.00 list price for most
>games) and didn't copy protect anything.  (Not copy protecting would
>help keep costs down)  They lasted about a year in that mode.  Seems

Yeah, I remember them.  I wouldn't say that copying killed them.  Their
games were almost not worth the effort.  I purchased one of their
baseball games.  It was nearly worthless.  I got the impression that
the rest of their software was of similar quality...