But, on the other hand, if the disc doesn’t sell (or if Apple’s CD-ROM drive doesn’t sell), we’d still keep our advance and Brøderbund would be out one of the largest advances they have offered anyone, not to mention about an equal amount they invested into managing and packaging the product.
Despite the large amounts in this second phase of development, both Brøderbund and Point went into the red by it. Brøderbund agreed to pay an additional $10,000 for our part, and delayed other of their projects in order to give the kind of attention we were demanding on this one. On Point’s side, we spent $10,000 more on
it (even deducting the additional $10,000) than we took in, because of obsessive addictions to doing things right. We
re-recorded portions of the music many times, re-scanned
