Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Software publishers & the //gs Message-ID: <851@n8emr.UUCP> Date: 6 Mar 89 11:07:57 GMT References: <8903031440.aa02910@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1) Lines: 30 In article <8903031440.aa02910@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: -->I find it ironic that the net is full of handwringing about Apple not taking -->the II community seriously and is devoting too much attention to the Mac, -->while at the same time waxing hysterical because a few game publishers -->are finding that the prospects of investment recovery (in the FUTURE :-) -->for Apple 2 games doesn't look promising (perhaps you all have heard of -->Nintenndo -- however it's spelled). --> The problem Murphy is that if folks like Claris are beginning to shut down GS development (I dont know that they are - I am saying IF) AND if game folks are also shutting down development - exactly what kind of software is going to be developed on the IIgs? I know that for over a year foriegn apple II support ACROSS THE BOARD has been decreasing - so we cannot expect to see games and productivity software appear from overseas ... if we are going to see it, we have to see it in the USA. We cannot be maximumly productive with only a few diversa programs, proline and ProSel - if folks like Dave Lyons keeps on crunching out programs we will have a few other quality products but gee - what is going to sell the Apple IIgs if there are no games, music, paint, word processing , spreadsheet, or database programs! Note that the ONLY GS specific programs for spreadsheet are AW/GS and a non-supported VIP from the first month or two of GS promotion. There is also AW/Classic but it isnt GS specific... -- Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.