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From: hrlaser@pnet01.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EA and Byte by Byte will continue to support the Amiga
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Date: 7 Feb 90 21:56:20 GMT
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evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes:
>I started becoming concerned after reading all of the claims about Electronic
>Arts and Byte-by-Byte dropping Amiga support. So, this morning I called both
>of their technical support lines. 
>
>	Byte-by-byte stated that the current development was being done on the 
>Mac but the Dr. Gramm(sp?) had no intentions of dropping Amiga support.
>
>	I got ahold of someone at EA who seemed to be real Amiga knowledgable.
>He said that the only changes regarding on the Amiga were the phasing out of
>DMCS, Deluxe Productions and some of the older games (7 Cities of Gold was the
>only one I remember).  On DMCS, he said that it never went over real well and 
>that they were not working with Jeff Brown anymore. He also said they were 
>moving some of the UK titles over here.
>
>	OK, everyone sit back and go .... WHEW :-)
>
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>Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb)                 _    /|
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Well, the news about BbB's continued Amiga support from Doc Graham is
good.  E/A's dropping of Deluxe Productions is okay too, since the program
was a dog.  But dropping DMCS!?!? Oh Hell!  What's wrong with E/A?
What happened to "We See Farther"??  Guess they don't realize how many
folks out there are waving money in their general direction and waiting
for an upgraded DMCS.  There are a LOT of people using the program andthere
are HUNDREDS of excellent DMCS scores in the public domain.  The program
needs some better memory management and general tightening but its
market has NOT dried up.  Wouldn't take Geoff Brown to do an update
either, if E/A owns the code.  Impulse's Turbo Silver was upgraded
by a totally different guy than he who originally wrote it.. probably
wasn't much fun working from someone else's notes but it was done and
it's a hot seller and works great with lots of improvements in the
most recent "SV" version.

So, a bit wet raspberry FOOEY on E/A.. I'm gonna run F/18 Interceptor
and zoom down Pacific Coast Highway to San Mateo and blast your building
a few times for some therapy now.  


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