Re: Prince of Persia

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exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:

>I'm sure this is a very easy question:  Was Prince of Persia ever
>released for the Apple II?  I know that Jordan Mechner designed
>and wrote it on/for the Apple, but it was the MS-DOS and Mac versions
>that went on to fame and glory.  The current manual is for both of
>these machines, but does not include instructions for an Apple II
>version.

>I imagine that Broderbund wasn't too happy with a new Apple II game
>around 1989-90 and immediately ported it to other platforms.  But
>did they ever put the Apple original on the market?

As far as I understand, Prince of Persia was FIRST released for the Apple //e,
BEFORE the IBM and Crapintosh versions were written.  From what I remember in
the manual, the author was an apple // user from way back, and this piece of
software was a bit of a triumph for him.  I believe that the main purpose of
Prince of Persia was for it to be written on the Apple //.  I could be wrong,
though.  There was never a gs release, but it would be INCREDUIBLY easy to do
considering the animation is just object animation and there are no full screen
scrolls.  I have seen the //e version, and its not too bad at all.

Donny of GyruS Software
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