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- From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga programmers UNITE
- Message-ID: <mykes.0b1a@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 09:58:15 GMT
- Organization: Amiga makes it possible
- Lines: 35
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Jul31.015344.5703@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
- > In article <jbickers.0chz@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- > >> I've got an idea...maybe all the amiga programmers available can pool
- > >> together their resources and start developing the necessary programs
- > >> people have been seeking from the commercial companies and distribute
- > >> them as mail-ware.
- > >
- > > This won't happen without $$$ moving. Like supporting shareware.
- > >
- > > BTW, as I've said before, if someone wants to fund it I can put
- > > together a team of people to clone Excel.
- >
- > Out of curiosity, what would you estimate to be the development cost of a
- > program of this magnitude (without consideration of advertising and
- > documentation expenses and assuming that this would be 2.0-specific)?
- > Secondly, what would you consider to be a reasonable estimate of development
- > time from startup to delivery of an initial beta release?
- >
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- About the same money CBM paid to 6 developers to do CDTV titles...
-
- > Mark
- >
- > --
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > = Mark Rickan ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!rickan =
- > = DCSS, McMaster University rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca =
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
- Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
- Mike Schwartz (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
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