Has anybody tried contacting Chris Sawyer?

capitaliser_101 · Post by **capitaliser_101** » 24 Feb 2003 22:38

Has anybidy contacted Chris Sawyer about all this? What would the likelihood of him giving some of the sourcecode out be? It would be cool, we'd all get different sorts of TTD, sort of like Linux...

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 24 Feb 2003 22:41

I thought Chris Sawyer was "not amused" by the patch provided by Josef, so you might be able to figure out for yourself what he thinks about this!

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 24 Feb 2003 22:54

Where did you read about him been 'not amused'?

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 24 Feb 2003 22:55

Somewhere on this forum. Run a search

!

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 24 Feb 2003 22:57

I thought I would have read that. But search didn't find anything.

capitaliser_101 · Post by **capitaliser_101** » 24 Feb 2003 22:57

hmm, okay, i thought sawyer would be happy that loyal ttd players like joseph would make extensions of the game. you don't see too many games from the early 90s played in the 00s, especially with the likes of warcraft 3 and simcity 4 around

Edit: and no, i didn't read about the 'not amused' part

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 24 Feb 2003 23:36

It's there somewhere. Josef talk about it in one post.

SpeciesX · Post by **SpeciesX** » 25 Feb 2003 01:32

I do recall reading an article about Chris Sawyer no longer owning any of the rights to TT (I doubt he ever did). Remeber now, this is what held TTDLX from being re-released so very long ago. Of course things have changed greatly since then, MicroProse no longer exists and Sawyer has become a hero to game developers everywhere, (he always was one to me).

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 25 Feb 2003 01:43

I found it. I think this is it anyway.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=1937&start=0.

SpeciesX · Post by **SpeciesX** » 25 Feb 2003 02:40

Now, I hate to be negative but I think Chris has moved on. In fact he work was started on a sequal for TT but was scraped and the code changed to create RCT but I'm sure we all knew that horrible news.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 25 Feb 2003 07:44

Omnislash wrote:I found it. I think this is it anyway.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=1937&start=0.

Patchman wrote:Yes, he is aware of it. I don't know his personal opinion, but from emails with his agency (Marjacq), it's clear that they don't like it.

Well Patchman said that his agency doesn't like it, I don't think Chris actually minds someone is using his "old" software and plays a bit with it
It's not that Patchman is making a huge profit of it

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 25 Feb 2003 09:38

No, not eactly. I wonder how rich Patchman would be if he spent his spare time on selling candy on a street corner instead of patching TTD. I think he would beat Bill Gates easily!

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 25 Feb 2003 10:56

Hyronymus wrote:No, not eactly.

What do you mean ?

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 25 Feb 2003 14:47

spaceman-spiff wrote: I don't think Chris actually minds someone is using his "old" software and plays a bit with it
It's not that Patchman is making a huge profit of it

Will we ever find out.

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 25 Feb 2003 23:19

Question: Has anybody tried contacting Chris Sawyer?

Answer: Yes, though never with the outcome they'd hoped for (e.g. no response, or words to the effect of *OAD)

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 27 Feb 2003 05:20

Omnislash wrote:I found it. I think this is it anyway.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=1937&start=0.

Hmm i remember said topic. I think the patch is great, and they can't stop him from making it

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 27 Feb 2003 09:01

spaceman-spiff wrote:
Hyronymus wrote:No, not eactly.
What do you mean ?

Don't you know I'm the X-man, spiff?!

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 27 Feb 2003 09:06

should i put this in the FAQ???

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 27 Feb 2003 09:47

Hyronymus wrote:
spaceman-spiff wrote:
Hyronymus wrote:No, not eactly.
What do you mean ?
Don't you know I'm the X-man, spiff?!

I wasn't talking so much about the missing letters, but about the content

I said patchman wasn't making profit and you said, not exactly ???
Do you think he's making a profit of the path ?

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 27 Feb 2003 17:17

Now I get it! You are right, I used the wrong word, I should've typed really instead of exactly

. I don't think Josef is making money out of this. I wouldn't know how, he never sent me a bill (sofar).

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