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From: tlhayes@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Zatar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Your Ultima Quote
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.215931.18894@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:59:31 GMT
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Not to sound depressing or anything, but I talked to a guy from Origin Systems
at their demo at PsurrealCon (Norman, Ok), and asked him about Ultima VI for the
II gs.  He said that software companies are already losing too much money on the
regular machines due to piracy that they cannot afford to put out software for
low-user machines.  It is not even a possible consideration.  He basically said
that Origin and some other software companies he knows of have decided that they
are never going to write anything for the II's ever again.  *sigh*
						-Zatar
						(tlhayes@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)

P.S.  Origin itself almost went under just before they released Ultima VI for
the IBM, whiched pulled them back up, and they are doing reasonably well now.