RE: Appleworks GS

[Bill Carver <Bill@carver.agn.net>]

l.middleton3@genie.com wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea what the projected sales were?  I know it would not
> have sold as much as Word or Word Perfect but I can asure it would be the
> best piece of software sold for the GS.

I know what they were and regardless of how useful it would be to
people, SQC is in the business of making a profit.  The development
costs would be more than the projected sales.  We would lose money if we
wrote it from scratch.  If we had absolutely nothing else to do, maybe
then we could do it, but it's not going to happen now, and I'm sure it's
not going to happen in the future.

> What I don't understand is how this project is such a
> "large undertaking" but a new operating system isn't.  

That was Apple, not us who wrote system 6 and 6.0.1.
 
> BTW,  Wolf 3D, is this a waste?  Sheppy is finishing it up and is making it
> FREEWARE!! This project has been ongoing for quite some time (2 years).  And
> the man asks nothing in return for use of his spare time.

Sheppy is doing a wonderful service to the Apple II community, but he's
not betting the farm on Wolf 3D.  If nobody likes it, or nobody buys it,
what has he lost that he would have gained otherwise. Sheppy is doing
Wolf3D as a hobby (for lack of a better term)  He is not making his
living off it.


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Bill Carver
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