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To: Burlitis who wrote (604)	7/5/1998 7:19:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 633

<What ever happens, somebody is going to end up with all of MPRS, maybe GTIS again, could be anybody.> What were the sticking points the first time around? Price?--I'll bet it is a lot lower now. Your suggestion to read up on usenet is a good one, I read through several of the threads today, if there is indeed a deal in the works I would say that Amy is going to get a scolding on Monday tho, just a little too eager to hint. I was surprised by all the disappointment about AoJ, quite a following. I have never been interested in Comic books but if there was a digital mechanism for tapping into the collector bug, what a gold mine that would be--just a random thought. If the only thing I ever read were 10k's I probably would not feel too comfortable with MPRS, it is certainly a gamble at this stage, but there is so much unrealized money out there slopping around in companies stock, I think sensible companies have to spend it while the markets are up. I've been surprised that the merger mania has been mainly in very large cap companies, the little players need to wake up and start merging--it hardly matters the industry, for the time being, bigger is better (for stockholders). When I think about the market cap of MPRS and just about any other player out there, it just boggles my mind.

To: Burlitis who wrote (604)	7/6/1998 4:38:00 PM
From: timbur	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 633

Actually, XCom was called UFO in Europe, and was made by some European independent. MPRS published it in the states and changed its name. Not sure about the sequels though. Apparently, Simtex (makers OF x-com) located in Austin Has Simtex made a game since MOO2? IMO, Simtex makes games with great premises, but have WAY too many bugs in them. This could have been caused by MPRS pushing them to release, or their code libraries. Two examples: MOM, which scrambled your command.com, so if you executed any DOS command after running it, it might scramble your FAT. This prompted me to create a 20 MB partition called SIMTEX_SUX just to run MOM! This bug was fixed in patch 1.2x. MOO2, which might have been a good game, except the reason why my roommate and I purchased it was to play over a LAN, and the multiplayer code (as released) was exceedingly slow and buggy. To be fair, I still play 1830, made by Simtex and published by Avalon Hill, about 100-200 times a year. I think MOM is one of the best simgle-player games ever made. (I can't find my disks though! ARG!) MOO (1, not 2) is another excellent game. Cheers, Tim