Re: Prince of Persia Source Code - Found!

["Wayne A. Arthurton" <warthurton@arthurton.com>]

On Sunday, April 8, 2012 3:07:11 PM UTC-4, Egan Ford wrote:
> On 4/8/12 11:56 AM, David Chiu wrote:
> > On 4/5/2012 9:03 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> >
> >> I think he held the copyright. The released versions said Copyright
> >> Jordan Mechner, not Copyright Broderbund.
> >
> > You know as well as I, that reality has little bearing for entertainment
> > industry land sharks.
> 
> Who would have thought after all this time that Atari would be defending 
> its brand and reclaiming its 2600 code base 
> (http://www.complex.com/video-games/2011/08/atari-targets-dedicated-fansites-for-shutdown). 
>   Namco, et al, are doing the same.
> 
> BTW, according to atari2600.org, Atari has tanked the "land sharks".
> 
> My question is, "who owes the 'Prince of Persia' brand?"  I believe it 
> is still Mechner.

Couple of things.  

1) Mechner is having a Xbox XBLA version of Karateka worked on right now
2) PoP brand is owned by Ubisoft
3) Though not my Apple 2 version of Karateka, I got my IBM version signed by Mechner on Friday 

http://www.flickr.com//photos/thewayner/sets/72157629389975894/show/