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- From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
- Subject: Re: Shanghai II -- who wrote it?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.004219.1993@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:42:19 GMT
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- In article <76032@apple.apple.COM> unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
- >
- > I just read the A2Central and Resource Central (mail order 'catalog'
- >that comes with it) today and saw that there's a Shanghai II for the GS.
- >I'd heard of this for the Mac and other computers and was surprised to see
- >it was written for the GS.. I guess there are a few projects out there
- >that aren't known about by all of the net.
-
- That's a comforting thought that the net isn't the center of
- the II world. :)
-
- > Anyway, does anyone know who this was written by? I got Shanghai a
- >few years ago (from an Egghead Discount Center), and don't play it
- >much so most likely won't get Shanghai II.. I'm just very curious about it.
- >
- > Is the game (or any of the other versions of it at least) distributed
- >by Activision, the author/distributor of the first one? Activision seems to
- >be clinging to life.. They filed Chapter 11 a while ago but haven't completely
- >dissolved, as far as I know. (Has the Lost Treasures of Infocom helped
- >keep 'em alive? at least the Mac/IBM versions, since BRCC does the
- >GS version)
-
- Shanghai II was written in house by John Wrenholt. BRCC
- basically owns the rights to a lot of games (and has packaging for a
- bunch as well), so they are doing some of the development in house,
- and are probably willing to do some outside contract work, for those
- who can do it.
-
- >unknown@apple.com Apple II Forever
-
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