jost@alice.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) (05/12/91)
In article <1991May10.165549.27037@odgate.odesta.com> dbk@odgate.odesta.com (Dan Keith) writes: >In article <1091@igor.Rational.COM> wab@Rational.COM (Bill Baker) writes: >> >>When the Mac first reared its little beige head, there was a >>very cool game called Chipwits... > > >Chipwits was written by BrainPower, Inc. I think they are now extinct >(unfortunately for all of us, IMHO). Two years ago they wrote a very neat >hypertext editor called ArchiText, which was powerful, but had a few >MacFlaws (e.g., Undo didn't work). I waited and waited for a new version, >then eventually tried to track them down and found out they had >disappeared. If anybody knows anything about either of these programs, or >where I could get a hold of the authors, I'd be grateful. I can help. Brainpower went bankrupt last year due to legal problems. The owner/founder, Sherwin Steffin, is still around, but he's not in a position to do anything about the products. As part of the liquidation, the rights to the products were sold to various companies around the country. I contacted the people who bought Architext, and they're not going to do anything with it for some time...bad luck for us. Unfortunately, I think Brainpower, Chipwits, Architext and Statalyzer (their stat program with a hypertext interface) are dead. Sherwin's looking into starting another company, though, and I suspect it will be something interesting. PJ -- ============================================================================== "You might very well think that, but I certainly couldn't comment..." Patrick Jost/jost@coyote.trw.com/(213) 812-2759/(213) 313-2803
conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty) (05/12/91)
In article <282C4B23.430F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, jost@alice.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) writes: [about Chipwits] > I can help. Brainpower went bankrupt last year due to legal problems. The > owner/founder, Sherwin Steffin, is still around, but he's not in a position > to do anything about the products. As part of the liquidation, the rights > to the products were sold to various companies around the country. I contacted > the people who bought Architext, and they're not going to do anything with > it for some time...bad luck for us. So who has the rights for Chipwits? And, more importantly, are they going to do a re-release of it? Of course, some code reworking would have to be done to make the game compatible with the current System Software... > Unfortunately, I think Brainpower, Chipwits, Architext and Statalyzer (their > stat program with a hypertext interface) are dead. Sherwin's looking into > starting another company, though, and I suspect it will be something > interesting. -- E n r i q u e C o n t y The Amazing Man-With-No-Life jester@ihlpl.att.com