Re: DuelTris v1.0s posted to binaries....

[ykim@cs.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim)]

In article <C2Iznx.BLK@iat.holonet.net> ksg@orac.holonet.net (Kevin S. Green) writes:
>However, I will not send any money for this.
>
>Why? Games this good, or any programming this good, should
>be commercially sold and properly marketed. 

It would be nice if DuelTris could be marketed as a real product.
However, there would be some difficulty in acquiring the copyright to
the game as well as other legal problems.

>Everyone keeps whining about the decline of the Apple //.
>Exception programs sold as shareware is partly to blame...
>there is no presence on the retail shelves and so the
>natural conclusion of the masses is: Oh the // line is 
>an old dinosaur that nobody uses or develops for anymore.
>
>Nope. You'll get my money when I see it on the software 
>shelves.

Hmmm...  That is a strange way of looking at it.  The reason there is
no GS titles on the retail shelves probably has to do with the lack of
software titles coming out for the GS and also the lack of people
buying GS software titles.  I doubt that it has anything to do with
exceptional shareware.  If anything, exceptional shareware can only
help the GS.

>Come on developers! Market your programs! Advertise! If you
>can't sell to one of the established publishers, start your
>own company or band together with other developers. There is
>nothing wrong with the Apple // market except that it is
>fading into obscurity. 

The guy who wrote DuelTris does have a commercial product.  It's
called DreamGrafix.  Maybe your store in Tulsa should think about
putting it on the shelves...




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