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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Solarian II
Message-ID: <1991May6.134648.28664@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 6 May 91 13:46:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.175655.11136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr27.004240.8537@news.iastate.edu> <1991Apr30.135427.16076@mmm.serc.3m.com> <1991May4.211138.3512@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <1991May4.211138.3512@agate.berkeley.edu> deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller) writes:
>In article <1991Apr30.135427.16076@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes:
>>  When I sent in my cash, I asked Ben why it
>>wasn't a commercial game.  I haven't gotten a response, but I suspect
>>that Spectrum Holobyte would snap this thing up if he wanted to sell
>>it.
>
>  Well, since I get this question so often, perhaps it's of general enough
>interest that I should post a reply.
[...]
>  Sorry if someone doesn't think this appropriate posting material for this
>list; it seems at least marginally relevant (distribution & publishing of
>games, etc.)  If people tell me not to post such things, I'll abstain, but
>I've never gotten shouted at yet (at least not for this particular
>trait... :-> )

Ben, mark my vote as a shout of "Thank You!"  I always like to hear an
author's reasons for going with the shareware market, and it's
comforting to hear that programs like Solarian _are_ making their
authors some $$$. (Maybe $$?  Or only $? :-)

And by all means, _do_ post interesting tidbits like new games you are
distributing!
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