Re: Looking for info on Speakeasy Software

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Mar 18, 4:19 am, Stephane Racle <sra...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have information of "Speakeasy Software"? As far as I know,
> it was a small Canadian software publisher of the late 1970s... it
> published a number of games on tape for the Apple II, but I have no
> further information.

Google seems to have swallowed my original post... :-(

So, here we come again (a bit shorter):

The game that appears often in relation to Speakeasy is
"Wheeler Dealers" by Dan Bunten (still a "he" at the time)
exclusively for the Apple II (16K, tape).
The special innovations of this game are that it is the first
game that was sold in a box and not in a bag and secondly
that it was bundled with a hardware expansion to allow up to
four players to interact with the game.
The game was more expensive ($35) than the normal games
($15-20) and sold only about 50 copies.
Bunten then went to SSI ("Cartels & Cutthroats" and others")
and later to Electronic Arts ("M.U.L.E." being the best known).

The only other game I found is "Bulls and Bears" for the
TRS-80, the PET and the C64 (and maybe others).
Tape-images are available at some places.

There isn't much to be found online it seems.

bye
Marcus