Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!jvance From: jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Patrick Vance) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Amiga Software by Atari!! Message-ID: <25A69DED.29057@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 7 Jan 90 01:39:56 GMT References: <89122504041857@masnet.uucp> <2360@sactoh0.UUCP> <90004.202106IMS103@PSUVM.BITNET> <90005.145418SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET> Reply-To: Joachim Patrick Vance Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 29 In article <90005.145418SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET> SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET (Steve Plite) writes: > >I'm not against Atari writing software for other platforms, and I don't >think it signals the "flop" of the ST. However, Ian makes a good point. >Atari is a small company and has limited resources. I too would prefer >that they devote their energies to the support of their current line >and the development of future products. I believe that would be of >greater long-term benifit to Atari than insuring that the Amiga has an >an authentic port of Gauntlet... > Well Atari may be a relatively small company (though recently (year ago?) listed as a Fortune 500 company). And I agree that I would like them to support their current line and develop future products. But in the state they're in right now having recently come out with quite a few new products and working on several more, and establishing new inventories I'll bet they're pretty short of cash. Developing software ports for other computers seems like a pretty cheap way of getting some extra profit to spend on supporting their current line and developing new products (if that's how they use the money). If they can make some quick cash from it, maybe we'll even see the TT sooner. (Long shot, I know.) -- Joachim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What do my .sig and UCI have in common? | | jvance@ics.uci.edu | - - - - - - - - - | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They're both Under Construction Indefinately.|