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Travis Thoms wrote:
> 
> The following is a letter I sent to Origin games yesterday, as well as a
> reply from Origin:
> 
> My Letter:
> I'm not sure if I'm directing this request (complaint) to the right
> department,but here it goes.
>      The news that I've read on different sites on the net that ULtima IX
> will be Win95 only upsets me.  This means I'm out in the cold, as well as
> a great number of people who have decided against "upgrading" to said
> operating system.
>      It seems to me that far more people do not have win95, versus those
> that do.  Why not just base it on dos?  Everyone can use dos:
> Win3.1,Win95,OS/2, and linux can all run dos based games.  If you do
> decide to run your games through a 32 bit system (which is not a bad
> idea), why not port it to all of them?  There are far more Os/2, MacOS,
> and Linux users than win95 people, and it appears to me (although I
> haven't taken a survey or anything) that OS/2 and win NT both have far
> more growth potential than the O.S. you seem to be hellbent to support.
> Please consider broadening yor scope as to the platforms that will run
> yor games; the days of the single operating system are over.
> 
> Reply:
> We're sorry that you're not happy with the decision to produce Ultima IX
> for Win 95 only. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to port it to
> all the platforms we'd like. Just as we have received complaints, we've
> also received many, many more requests for Windows 95 native software.
> 
> Richard/ORIGIN Marketing
> 
> I think that there are more of us (OS/2,MAC,Linux users) than there are
> of them (Win95 users).  Let's all write Origin and show them that there
> is support for other operating systems (namely OS/2).  The address is
> 
> "marketing@origin.ea.com".
> 
> tpthoms@mail.fia.com
> 
> P.S.  I don't know much about DAPIE; could Origin use something like
> this?  Some of you computer gurus might want to explain it to them if
> they can.


P.P.S. Just so I know I'm not alone on this, why don't you all send me a 
copy of your mail message to Origin.It would be nice to see what you all 
think.

thanks.

tpthoms@mail.fia.com