Re: Poll: would you pay for SimCity and Ultima II for the IIgs?

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

On 3月31日, 下午10时24分, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I've been recently in touch with Electronic Arts, owner of Maxis and
> Origin Systems, former publishers of SimCity and the Ultima series
> respectively.
>
> My idea was to finish what Becky Heineman started on SimCity. Yes, the
> game exists, I have a copy. With Ultima II, I would have liked to work
> from Becky's source code of Ultima I for the IIgs to keep the same
> level of quality.
>
> I've officially requested the permission to port those two games on
> the Apple IIgs and the answer was quite clear: "We would require a EUR
> 20,000 minimum guarantee and a 10% royalty rate."

My suggestion is this:

Just port it over, called it SCGS and UGS. Sell them in
comp.sys.apple2. Don't have to pay a cent. We all know what they are,
and nobody will look into this forum.