Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!LSUVM.BITNET!$CSD211 From: $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release Message-ID: <9012060153.AA02540@apple.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 01:36:35 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 |From: Terry Guelfo |In-Reply-To: message from lucifer@world.std.com | |>Regarding GS version of Stellar 7... | |I guess you haven't heard. Sierra dumped the Apple II line. So, I for one, |dumped Sierra. They aren't making any Apple IIGS products anymore. I don't |really care... a lot of their stuff was forgettable. What do you mean, you dont care??? If you gave a damn about the future of the Apple II, you'd care. We must at all costs prevent the Apple II from becoming isolated from the mainstream of computing. There is little enough reason to buy an Apple II; If there's no software, there will be no reason at all. Sierra hasn't "dumped" the Apple II. They HAVE stopped making IIgs versions of their new software...because the IIgs is too slow to run SCI (the Sierra Creative Interpreter), but Mr. Williams said that the IIgs SCI would be completed if accelerators became popular enough, or if Apple upgraded the IIgs. Neither of these things, of course, will happen. (Don't start whining about assembly language, virtually no software companies program on the metal anymore. Most major software companies port programs down from mainframes. software producers shouldn't be forced to program seperate versions on seperate machines.) Stellar-7 could be done on the IIgs...but it still wouldn't be as good as the PC version. I hope everyone out there who thought that the Mac LC would be a boon to the Apple II (by spurring interest) has learned their lesson. It didn't spur any interest, it delivered a message to software producers: "last orders please." You may have noticed my recent posts about building a new II outside of Apple. I would support this action since it would take the future of the Apple II out of the evil hands of Mac Inc. (Ewww...scathing attack!!!) ---------------------------------- | MARK A. ORR | | $CSD211 @ LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU | | @ LSUVM.BITNET | ----------------------------------