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To: Sleeperz who wrote (295)	3/6/1998 3:30:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 633

>>>3. Pay them 10-50 thousand for tools, total.<<< If you want the best I guess BUT again, MetroWerks CW US$899.00<<< Does that include the required emulation hardware??:) BTW, lots of kids got started with games using the $19 Borland compiler or Apple basic with a $25 assembler for subroutines. You could save to floppy. Literally hundreds of small software companies were started that way. Nearly all of the brilliant new categories of software (like the spreadsheet) that came out of 1975-1985 were developed on a shoestring with cheap tools by independents working in their garages and bedrooms and student dorms back then. You compare the price of these tools to MSVC? What kid can buy this? Sure, I buy it - I have lots of customers willing to pay me well to rewrite yesterdays (corporate ideas of what makes an entertaining game) news with that compiler. They end up paying for it. That brilliant, fun kid who doesn't want to sell out to the corporate development houses, or is too young to play there? SOL. That's why almost all these games look the same. You need big bucks to play, and the system is just like the system that produces the TV sitcoms - only even cheesier and more gutless. Cheers, Chaz BTW - I agree about playstation potential - I'm doing one of those titles now - but not with my money, I couldn't have afforded the tools.