On 01-Nov-97, Tripp Elliott (kmelliot@erols.com) wrote about [BIRTHRIGHT] -
CD-ROM Demo Question:

- ->So, I went to ftp.mpgn.com/Gaming/ADND and tried to download the demo of
- ->the rules CD thing. Well, after reading the text file associated with
- ->it, I concluded it'sa wast of my time. You see, I have a Mac, and your
- ->demo does not seem to have a Mac version. Incidentally, neither does
- ->the BR CDROM Game.

- ->Does TSR have any intention of supporting we Mac users with these
- ->excellent products, or are we out in the cold?

I can sortof give you an answer to this:

I was working on DM help program when the first rumors about this AD&D-CD came
and I contacted TSR toheare if they could help me with a quite alot of
information I needed and at the same time offered to make/convert the software
on that CD for the Amiga system. The answer I got than and which I think TSR
still thinks is: "The market for other platforms are to small and wouldn't
bring any profit".

So we will not see any Mac, Unix or Amiga versions of the TSR CD's, but games
like the "Gorgons Aliance" you have to push on the software house which has
done it.
My suggestions for TSR, that next time you do a CD-Rom, use java for then you
have a larger market as there are more computers which are able to run java
than IBM PC compatible code. And to do it easy you could include java for the
4 - 5 most populare platforms and that will not take more than 20MB of those
660MB you can have on a standard CD. And you ask people nicely I guess you
will find many who would help you for free to get it to work on as many
systems as possible.


//Trizt of Ward^RITE

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