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From: colas@celeste.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: SimEarth for the Amiga
Keywords: Yay, evolution, Maxis, dead crab
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Date: 15 May 91 11:25:15 GMT
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In article <13616@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, morgan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
writes:
> SimEarth IS coming out for the Amiga 
> The reason why they hadn't sold many is,
> of course, piracy.  Think about it folks.

It would be VERY interesting to know why they changed their mind:
- amiga market growing
- PC & Mac piracy growing even more important than amiga one (true fact)
- they didn't thought anymore that piracy killed simcity on amiga?
  (look at the sales figure of populous now: still selling!)
- other (atari, C64) markets dying, so amiga remains alone with PC & Mac?
- attracted by the CDTV market?

Seems that microprose too decided to port to amiga, after some in-house
doubts... is that true too?

Could you make you friend share some light on the subject?

Colas.