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From: richard@wg.icl.co.uk (Richard Barnett)
Subject: Re: IF Business venture?
In-Reply-To: hamrag@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Sun, 17 Apr 1994 18:15:06 GMT
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In article <CoF1D7.7rH@cix.compulink.co.uk> hamrag@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Humbug Software") writes:

   I have written two PC shareware adventure games (JACARANDA JIM and 
   HUMBUG) which have resulted in the region of 2000+ registrations.  During 
   the first year of JIM I only managed to sell 20 copies of the game; the 
   year after that I was (for a while) selling 20 copies per day!  When I 
   started getting that many registrations I realised there was a 
   badly-needed source of income in them thar hills and wrote HUMBUG.

so, is there any chance of a tads/inform/alan/... port of these games?
if so many users have registered then they must be pretty good.

   BTW, these were my experiences a couple of years ago.  I'm busy at a 
   "real" job now and don't have so much time to promote my games

hmm, maybe not...

-- richard

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richard barnett						   richard@wg.icl.co.uk
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