evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) (02/06/90)
I started becoming concerned after reading all of the claims about Electronic
Arts and Byte-by-Byte dropping Amiga support. So, this morning I called both
of their technical support lines.
Byte-by-byte stated that the current development was being done on the
Mac but the Dr. Gramm(sp?) had no intentions of dropping Amiga support.
I got ahold of someone at EA who seemed to be real Amiga knowledgable.
He said that the only changes regarding on the Amiga were the phasing out of
DMCS, Deluxe Productions and some of the older games (7 Cities of Gold was the
only one I remember). On DMCS, he said that it never went over real well and
that they were not working with Jeff Brown anymore. He also said they were
moving some of the UK titles over here.
OK, everyone sit back and go .... WHEW :-)
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Comments about EA not supporting DMCS anymore, as it never went over very well and they have no dealings with the author anymore. They should be flamed. The reason was that DMCS was a buggy piece of cr*p. If they had put the enhancements of the MAC v2.5, and kept pace with current amiga technology, they would have sold a lot more. I suspect there is a big market for a traditional music program that uses the amiga's voices, especially the education market. krag@cup.portal.com
nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) (02/07/90)
In article <1115@sdrc.UUCP>, evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes: > > He said that the only changes regarding on the Amiga were the phasing out of > DMCS, Deluxe Productions and some of the older games (7 Cities of Gold was the > only one I remember). On DMCS, he said that it never went over real well and This seems to be about 180 degrees off from what is going on on GEnie. EA is activily asking for users opinions on what an upgrade to DMCS should included. EA sounds VERY interested in updating this program and is getting good response from users on GEnie. I wouldn't be suprised if they are doing the same thing on CompuServe. I've been on CIS for a whole week now and haven't seen anything but I could have missed it. It hardly sounds like EA is phaseing DMCS out yet, but like everything else we should probably wait and see it before believing it. -- "Could we be the bellwether | Michael Figg DSAC-FSD of major societal shifts?" | DLA Systems Automation Center - Columbus,Oh mfigg@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil
hrlaser@pnet01.cts.com (Harv Laser) (02/08/90)
evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes: >I started becoming concerned after reading all of the claims about Electronic >Arts and Byte-by-Byte dropping Amiga support. So, this morning I called both >of their technical support lines. > > Byte-by-byte stated that the current development was being done on the >Mac but the Dr. Gramm(sp?) had no intentions of dropping Amiga support. > > I got ahold of someone at EA who seemed to be real Amiga knowledgable. >He said that the only changes regarding on the Amiga were the phasing out of >DMCS, Deluxe Productions and some of the older games (7 Cities of Gold was the >only one I remember). On DMCS, he said that it never went over real well and >that they were not working with Jeff Brown anymore. He also said they were >moving some of the UK titles over here. > > OK, everyone sit back and go .... WHEW :-) > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb) _ /| >Workstation Systems Programmer \'o.O' >Structural Dynamics Research Corporation =(___)= > U >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well, the news about BbB's continued Amiga support from Doc Graham is good. E/A's dropping of Deluxe Productions is okay too, since the program was a dog. But dropping DMCS!?!? Oh Hell! What's wrong with E/A? What happened to "We See Farther"?? Guess they don't realize how many folks out there are waving money in their general direction and waiting for an upgraded DMCS. There are a LOT of people using the program andthere are HUNDREDS of excellent DMCS scores in the public domain. The program needs some better memory management and general tightening but its market has NOT dried up. Wouldn't take Geoff Brown to do an update either, if E/A owns the code. Impulse's Turbo Silver was upgraded by a totally different guy than he who originally wrote it.. probably wasn't much fun working from someone else's notes but it was done and it's a hot seller and works great with lots of improvements in the most recent "SV" version. So, a bit wet raspberry FOOEY on E/A.. I'm gonna run F/18 Interceptor and zoom down Pacific Coast Highway to San Mateo and blast your building a few times for some therapy now. UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!hrlaser ARPA: crash!pnet01!hrlaser@nosc.mil INET: hrlaser@pnet01.cts.com
jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek) (02/08/90)
In article <26670@cup.portal.com>, krag@cup.portal.com (Kevin Ray Grotjohn) writes: > [...] I suspect there is a big > market for a traditional music program that uses the amiga's voices, > especially the education market. Most professional music packages (like Music-X) allow the use of the Amiga voices as instruments. -- |\ | // Julius A. Cisek jac423 | /| | | \X/ ->crunch<- SUNYA, NY USA @leah.albany.edu | | O | IB...M I do think it's good... | O
bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh) (02/11/90)
>What happened to "We See Farther"?? Guess they don't realize how many >folks out there are waving money in their general direction and waiting >for an upgraded DMCS. There are a LOT of people using the program andthere >are HUNDREDS of excellent DMCS scores in the public domain. The program >needs some better memory management and general tightening but its >market has NOT dried up. Wouldn't take Geoff Brown to do an update I guess they also didn't notice B.B. King using DMCS in the Commodore ads...