Dear Ed,

Thank you for including 21st Century Entertainment in the recent distribution of your petition. Our company started out selling Amiga games and supported this platform for a number of years. We were forced to discontinue when our distribution channels refused to carry Amiga product. We understand that there are still many Amiga owners who would like to have new games but unfortunately publishers like ourselves rely on distribution to sell product and therefore are no longer able to support this platform.

Audiogenic willl continue to publish Amiga games as long as there is a demand, and provided that we do not have to develop the games from scratch, which would be far too risky.

The main problem is that most of the multiple retailers refuse to stock new Amiga titles.

Hope this is useful.

Robert Peters
Audiogenic Customer Services

This is great stuff. Keep up the good work. I own both an A1200 and a PC and going back to the good ol' Amiga when necessary is like a breathe of fresh air.

As usual i'll pass the petition onto the relevant chaps. Well done mate.

Regards
Stephen White (Playtester to Amiga TFX)
Multimedia / Web Author
Digital Image Design Ltd
http://www.did.com

Hello,

Thank you for you email, it's brilliant to see such a response from so many people who obviously feel so strong about their favourite games machine.

The sad news is we have no future plans to continue developing on the Amiga, and are now concentrating on producing on other platforms.

We owe alot to the Amiga market, but unfortunately it isn't quite what it used to be, although we enjoy working on the Amiga, we feel we must too move along onto to new projects.

I will forward on your emails to our producers for them to have a read through.

Best Regards,

Sara Woodward
Team 17 Support

Thanks for your email.

Unfortunately publishers have to consider where to invest the time of their programming teams - obviously the one area always considered will be the PC because of its already vast, and increasing, consumer base.

This means that we rely on people to send in their designs and demos, or preferably full versions, of their own Amiga games, because we can't afford to invest the time of our programmers in the Amiga.

The last Amiga game we received that was worth releasing was Coala, and at least one Amiga game is sent to us every six months. Amiga programmers don't seem to exist any more.

I think its time to let the memory of the Amiga rest in peace - at least until its resurrected.

Best Regards,

Tristram Defries - Empire Interactive Customer Support

Email: tristram@empire.co.uk
WWW: www.empire.co.uk

Empire Interactive

Thanks for your email.

Our current situation is that we're waiting to see what happens with the Amiga, but I will get the guys to examine the games in detail rather than dismissing them out-right.

Best Regards,

Tristram Defries - Empire Interactive Customer Support

Email: tristram@empire.co.uk
WWW: www.empire.co.uk

Empire Interactive