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From: conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Brainpower (was What ever happened to Chipwits?)
Message-ID: <1991May11.204529.256@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 11 May 91 20:45:29 GMT
References: <1091@igor.Rational.COM> <1991May10.165549.27037@odgate.odesta.com> <282C4B23.430F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
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In article <282C4B23.430F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, jost@alice.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) writes:
[about Chipwits]
> I can help. Brainpower went bankrupt last year due to legal problems. The
> owner/founder, Sherwin Steffin, is still around, but he's not in a position
> to do anything about the products. As part of the liquidation, the rights
> to the products were sold to various companies around the country. I contacted
> the people who bought Architext, and they're not going to do anything with
> it for some time...bad luck for us.

So who has the rights for Chipwits?  And, more importantly, are they going to
do a re-release of it?  Of course, some code reworking would have to be done
to make the game compatible with the current System Software...

> Unfortunately, I think Brainpower, Chipwits, Architext and Statalyzer (their
> stat program with a hypertext interface) are dead. Sherwin's looking into
> starting another company, though, and I suspect it will be something
> interesting.
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