ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (04/20/88)
[ Sleep well, Mr. Hartford... MWAH-HAHAHAHAHAAA!! ]
The following two items appeared in an Electronic Arts publication
called "Deluxe News", which might be of interest. They are reproduced here
in their entirety, without permission (sorry 'bout dat).
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Copy Protection Removed From All Deluxe Creativity Series Products
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Electronic Arts is pleased to announce that beginning April 1, 1988
we will no longer be shipping copy protected versions of Deluxe Creativity
Series products. Anyone who purchases a protected version of any Deluxe
product after April 1, 1988 may get the unprotected version for free,
provided they send in the program disk and their dated receipt within 90
days of purchase. After the first 90 days, send us your program disk, your
proof of purchase, and a check or money order for $7.50 (standard warranty
replacement procedure).
[ Nice to see they finally saw some light. Ed. ]
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Let's Face It...
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-- Editorial by Trip Hawkins, President, Electronic Arts
...The truth is that Commodore hasn't built or sold as many Amigas as
we had all originally hoped. I suppose that it's this fact, combined with
EA's early commitment to Amiga, that's causing the cynics and naysayers to
keep predicting that EA will pull the plug and stop supporting the Amiga.
Well, once again the cynics will be disappointed and have to go
prey on someone else. Although Electronic Arts already distributes 53
programs for the Amiga, there are still more to come, proving that our
enthusiasm for Amiga technology remains undiminished.
It's said that "the medium is the message." And the Amiga's message
is audio and video. Amiga's audiovisual technology has allowed the "desktop
video" market to come into existence. Since the future of computer
entertainment is audiovisual, the Amiga continues to be the watershed
machine for state-of-the-art entertainment software.
We care about innovation. The sound, graphics, and animation
possible on Amiga have led directly to new inventions like DeluxeVideo and
Instant Music, and we're just getting started. Wait until you see how
animation and voice brings characters to life in Return to Atlantis, making
it feel like a movie. Plus, the Deluxe Creativity Series will continue to
grow, with great new tools for manipulating sights and sounds in exciting
new ways.
We also care about quality. Our philosophy that software should be
simple, hot, and deep is best created on an Amiga. Just look at the
richness of detail in Earl Weaver Baseball or DeluxePaint II. Stay tuned
for incredible realism in products like Ferrari Formula One. As the Deluxe
Creativity Series continues to grow, the features and capabilities at your
fingertips will unlock your own creative potential. Your power will grow as
we fill in the feature gaps, and offer new applications like
DeluxeProductions and DeluxePhotoLab.
Desktop video will eventually be as important to people as desktop
publishing. Why? Because we are at least as accustomed to getting
information from cathode ray tubes as from papyrus. So far we've seen just
a taste, but an incredibly exciting one. The future of Amiga and
Elelctronic Arts software is even more exciting, and we are looking forward
to it.
[ Disclaimer: I did not write this dreck; I'm only transcribing it.
Ed. ]
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"Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctortony@artecon.UUCP (Tony Parkhurst) (04/21/88)
Oh, Leo, don't tell me you fell for yet another april fools joke: (YAAFJ) In article <5749@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: > The following two items appeared in an Electronic Arts publication [...] > Electronic Arts is pleased to announce that beginning April 1, 1988 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >we will no longer be shipping copy protected versions of Deluxe Creativity HAHAHAHAHAHAHAYHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA ... I Dunn Beeleeve It! >Series products. Anyone who purchases a protected version of any Deluxe >product after April 1, 1988 may get the unprotected version for free, ^^^^ This word is not in EA's vocabulary, sorry... [ Obvious make believe Editorial from President of EA about their commitment to quality deleted ] Sorry Leo, I just couldn't resist. -- Tony -- **************** Insert 'Standard' Disclaimer here: OOP ACK! ***************** * Tony Parkhurst --> hp-sdd!artecon!adp (or) hp-sdd!artecon!adp@nosc.ARPA * * "One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather * *******************************************************************************
doug_rands_merritt@cup.portal.com (04/23/88)
Since it was pointed out that Leo's quote from EA said something about April 1, I just had to check...and yep, the quotes Leo gave us do indeed seem to have come from the EA newsletter. I didn't compare the entire thing word for word, but the quotes start off identically anyway. Doug
baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (04/25/88)
In article <5749@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >[ Sleep well, Mr. Hartford... MWAH-HAHAHAHAHAAA!! ] > > The following two items appeared in an Electronic Arts publication >called "Deluxe News" > >Copy Protection Removed From All Deluxe Creativity Series Products >------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Bout Bloody Time too! But it sounds like their games will all still be GRONK-ware. > beginning April 1, 1988 I like their choice of dates :-). >Let's Face It... >---------------- > -- Editorial by Trip Hawkins, President, Electronic Arts > > ...The truth is that Commodore hasn't built or sold as many Amigas as >we had all originally hoped. I suppose that it's this fact, combined with >EA's early commitment to Amiga, that's causing the cynics and naysayers to >keep predicting that EA will pull the plug and stop supporting the Amiga. > > Well, once again the cynics will be disappointed and have to go >prey on someone else. Although Electronic Arts already distributes 53 >programs for the Amiga, there are still more to come, proving that our >enthusiasm for Amiga technology remains undiminished. I think this portion was meant to be accompanied by the above date. I have it from some very reliable sources that EA is indeed slowly pulling out of the Amiga world. In fact, the general mood around EA is very negative towards the Amiga, and is instead Mac-happy. I am looking forward to seeing Deluxe PhotoLab. And luckily, if EA does pull out of supporting the Amiga, many other software houses are ready to fill the gap. [my reliable sources are on the net, maybe they could elaborate, hint, hint] [inews snack crackers o o o o] -- -Ken Baer. // Hash Enterprises: When the Going gets Weird, the Weird go Professional \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP, BIX - kbaer, "while (AINTGOTNOSATISFACTION) { do stuff }" - RJ Mical