Posted By
MMS
on 2020-01-23
11:10:24
 |  Re: If you are curious about how many... Timeslip
Wow, I was not aware that Atari had a release too.
And frankly speaking, Atari version is also a very nice one. But in fact almost the double size (27KB)
The C16 and Atari releases on the homepage show the picture of almost the same content, so it is easy to compare. Timeslip on C16 is a really outstanding game, and it looks the ATARI version was
polished a little more.
What is hard to believe, that from the ATARI version they sold two times more (!) than from the epic C16 version.
The amount they paid for Jon for his brilliant work... Well, it seems not only the piracy ()low sales) killed the development of the new C= softwares, but the low royalty payments too.
(OK, I know it take money to produce and copy the tapes, print the cover sheet and add the plastic housing, do marketing, etc, etc), but as visible, the cost of such a game in cassette was ~2.99Ł.
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. The game was initially written for the C16 and it was a squeeze to get it to fit into memory (I had 34 bytes free!). The Atari version had 32KB to run in so I was able to make some improvements and provide a better front end with a few gameplay instructions.
