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- From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Sierra definitely ISN'T gone!!!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Steven_Hurdle.00th@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 00:05:11 PST
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
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- In a message dated Fri 25 Dec 92 2:44, Ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (gregg Giles
- wrote:
-
- GG> Sierra UK has been in existence for well over a year. Your news is
- GG> a little
- GG> old. To date, it has merely been a marketing subsidiary, not a
- GG> development one
- GG> (all Sierra games are done in Coarsegold, California).
- GG> As for whether or not they're going to get back into the Amiga,
- GG> we'll see.
- GG> I'll believe it when I see an AGA game that says "Sierra".
-
- OK. Maybe I was trying to read between the lines too much there. I didn't
- realise that Sierra already had a marketing subsidiary already in the U.K.
- (I live in Canada and my only sources of U.K. Amiga news are the euro-mags
- I read and the nets of course). The news-piece clearly isn't referring to
- this group, it referred to Sierra opening up a new office that would be
- doing Amiga ports, and that it would be in the U.K.
-
- I wouldn't expect them to do AGA games right off the top, or at least not
- only in AGA. I'd like to see a fresh coding team tackle the job of porting
- the games as the people in the past by-and-large haven't done outstanding
- jobs, really. I expect AGA versions could well be in the works as they're
- actually very easy to do as I see it, though admittedly I'm not a coder so
- there might be hidden twists you can enlighten me too. By porting the game
- engine from the ECS version, and porting over the VGA graphics, an AGA
- version seems very easy to put together. Obviously, however, the games
- that go out of their way to use AGA to the fullest are the ones that will
- impress the most and therefore sell the most. It's just nice that the ease
- of porting to AGA seems to have resulted in a number of companies jumping
- in with both feet right away even before A1200/A4000 units are extremely
- large in number.
-
- GG> Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) "Infinite Laser Dog"
- GG> Development Team
- GG> All opinions expressed are my own. ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu,
- GG> BIX: ggiles
- GG> Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10
- GG> 1.5 (Amiga)
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- Steven Hurdle <==> The Swindler [public replies only please]
- Writer of "Virtual Rumours", a rumour/news column in some club newsletters.
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- "Give me AGA, or give me DEATH!!!"
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