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Travis Thoms (tpthoms@fia.net) 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  
:  

This is an illusion.  If you want to make money with your software you
have to write for WIN95!  This is why LOTUS Smartsuite for WIN95 is out
but not for OS/2.


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