JEO 11/46
//// Native Release Unlikely
[this is an email from Duranik member Johannes Graf to concerned
Jaguarian Rudi Reider. English translation by Rudi.]
Hello,
>As far as I understand, your primary problem is
>that you didn't have (or couldn't get) a CD-DevKit - right??
Right, that was our problem. In the meantime we could probably get
one, however we want possibly to do something quite different which
has nothing to do with the Jaguar anymore. If that works, we would
have no more time to finish Native for the Jaguar.
>Or do you need financial support? (for what?)
No.
Normally I don't care what Scott Le Grand says. They should actually
finish their game instead of giving people wise advice.
>And I would like to have the game too !! So come on !! ;-)
So, as said above, I believe that is rather improbable.
regards
Johannes
//// Backtrack!? Nevermind...
Recent visitors to Telegames' web page may have noticed Backtrack, a
new Win95 dungeon-crawl they're selling. Backtrack bears a remarkable
likeness to Towers II. Could a Jag version be in the works? JV Games'
Vince Valenti had this to say on the subject:
"Yes, we did write BackTrack. That game was an in-between project. We
talked about what it would take to port to the Jaguar. But there exist
two major problems.  :)
One: The game runs on 6megs of RAM. The graphics chewed far more RAM
than Towers II did.
Two: This is a budget game, a spoof of a Doom clone. There is no
network support, or modem stuff in it at all. I could not see this
game going for $60.
We originally had no intention of doing this project, as we are trying
to develop our new engine."
//// Fun With Nolan
>From the San Jose Mercury News:
NOLAN BUSHNELL'S sale of his Woodside home has at least one group of
people a bit upset. And it's not the neighbors.
Bushnell's faltering San Francisco game software company, PlayNet,
owes a number of its employees back pay, according to some of those
who have worked and are still working for the company. For programmer
Scott Anthony, it's about $10,000. He estimates that 60 people, mostly
those laid off in early July, are owed wages or reimbursement for
expenses by PlayNet.
"People are getting pretty upset," he said. "We were basically
promised a lot that never came through." In addition to six weeks of
wages, Anthony said he was promised a start-up bonus.
All of PlayNet's employees will get paid, said Bushnell, who is best
known for inventing Pong and launching the video game business.
PlayNet has been having some financial problems and it's currently
negotiating for more funding. He wouldn't disclose the source of the
funding. "There are some people who are owed money," said Bushnell,
PlayNet's director of strategic planning and one of its founders.
"It's just a timing issue."
Bushnell said last week that he sold his house -- his real estate
agency wouldn't disclose the price -- to move to England for a year to
work to develop PlayNet's European market, while spending time with
his children.
PlayNet employees were particularly upset to hear that news. "He's
taking it outside the U.S. without paying everybody what they're
owed," said Anthony. "If that's the case, he's gotten a lot of value
from people for free."
The asking price for the Woodside house was $5.9 million -- and while
Bushnell has probably made a nice bit of cash on that transaction he's
not obligated to use his personal funds to help his business.
Bushnell, furthermore, said he's not been the one to manage PlayNet's
finances. "The part of the business I hate is the financial stuff and
all that folderol," he said.
"He doesn't have any legal obligation to pay anybody," said Anthony.
"But it sure doesn't look good."
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