RE: interesting coincidence..

At 10:47 AM 8/19/97 -0700, Ozdemir, Steve wrote:
>G'day Bill (and all),
>
>Yes, the addresses of Vectorbeam and Exidy are the same implying that
>maybe Larry made a deal with Exidy when he split away from
>Cinematronics. This would certainly explain why the lawyers were
>brought in by Cinematronics to shut down Larry and Vectorbeam! Nothing
>pisses your previous company more than going to the competitors with
>your bread-and-butter architecture.

This all maybe true, but who wrote Tailgunner? Cinematronics or Vectorbeam?
Was Exidy blatantly stealing software written by Cinematronics programmers,
or vica-versa with Cinematronics blatantly stealing Vectorbeam code?

If Exidy was the international manufacturer of Cinematronics games, as you
say, then it doesn't sound like Vectorbeam was the one to "bring
bread-and-butter architecture" to Exidy.

-Zonn
Received on Tue Aug 19 11:47:31 1997