On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:17, johnna wrote: > Great to hear these things - nice to hear all the old lies trotted out > (system 3 and codemasters having games ready for launch...REALLY!)
Well - probably not SamCo's fault (I'll bet CodeMasters told them the same thing) and it's just about possible that it was true. The full price of launching a game are quite a bit more than just the development costs, so even if CodeMasters had completed a port of Treasure Island Dizzy (forexample, as was widely rumoured at the time and I think a Sam version would be quite plausible from a technical point of view) they may have had a look at Sam hardware sales, and decided it wouldn't be worth their while to go ahead with the QA, publishing, duplication, distribution, marketing and other expensive activities that go along with publishing a high-profile software title. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
