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[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m|-----------------| Regarding id and Apogee |-----------------------------|  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m|I was just wondering what you guys at apogee think about id. Do you      |  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m|guys have any respect for them? Do you take them seriously, or do you    |  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m|guys look at them as a speck on the monitor that needs to be destroyed?  |  [1m[37;41m[40m
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[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mHere, read this.  I wrote it some time ago, and probably needs to be         [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mupdated with new game information, but the info about us and id is still     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mcurrent.                                                                     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mThis is for people who are still confused as to the relationship between     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mApogee and Id Software. (Updated Feb 13, 1995)                               [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mApogee and Id Software are two completely different companies.  Always have  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mbeen, always will be. Apogee doesn't own Id, nor does Id own Apogee or       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41manything like that.  Here is an explanation as to the two of the companies.  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mApogee Software writes and distributes software.  We have published a        [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mtotal of 35 games over our history up until the writing of this text,        [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mand of those, only a handful have not actually been written by Apogee.       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mId Software did three of these handful of games.  The three being Keen       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mVorticons, Keen Galaxy, and Wolfenstein 3D.                                  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mId Software writes software, and up until Doom, had never published          [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41manything themselves.  Id has published through a few companies, and Apogee   [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mwas one of them.  As mentioned before, Keen Vorticons, Keen Galaxy, and      [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mWolfenstein 3D were distributed by Apogee.  (At later dates, id went on and  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41malso published Keen Galaxy and Wolf3D in the stores through GT Software,     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mbut that's another story).  Some earlier Id efforts such as Catacombs        [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mAbyss are distributed through Softdisk.  (Technically, games like Catacombs  [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mAbyss, Dangerous Dave, and Rescue Rover are Softdisk games, and not "id      [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mSoftware" games.  Id's first official game as "id Software" was Keen:        [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mVorticons for Apogee.  While the same people worked at Softdisk on the       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mpreviously mentioned games, they're not officially id Software games.)       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mId has published three commercial only games. Two of these were published    [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mby FormGen.  They are Aliens Ate My Babysitter (Keen6), and Spear of         [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mDestiny.  These two are quite frequently assumed to be Apogee games, but     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mthey are not.  Check them, the name Apogee does not appear in there.  More   [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mconfusion gets added when I say that Apogee RESELLS Keen6 and Spear, but     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mthey aren't our games.  We only sell them.  We have to buy them from         [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mFormGen like any other computer store like CompUSA would.  The third id      [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mretail game is Doom II.  This is being published in the retail markets by GT [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mSoftware.                                                                    [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mStarting with Doom, Id has been publishing on their own. Apogee has          [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mabsolutely nothing to do with Doom, nor any future titles by id Software.    [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mFurthermore, starting with the release of Heretic, id Software will also     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mbe publishing games on their own label.  They licensed their Doom engine     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mto two companies, Cygnus Studios, and Raven Software.  The two games         [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mproduced under this agreement (Strife & Heretic respectively), are going     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mto be published under the "id" label exactly the same way that id Software   [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mthemselves published Wolfenstein 3D under the "Apogee" label.                [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mThere has also been no "big divorce", or "big feud" or something along       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mthose lines.  The Id guys and the Apogee guys are all really good friends,   [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mand in fact, every once in awhile, we get together, shoot pool up at the     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mId offices.  We've also gone out and played paintball with id Software and   [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mCygnus.  There is no big fallout, or anything of the sort.  Anyone who       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mtries to imply this is trying to drive a wedge where it doesn't belong or    [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mexist.                                                                       [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mI hope this has cleared up the id Software confusion a bit.  If you have     [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41many further questions, please feel free to ask.                              [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41m                                                                             [1m[37;41m[40m
[1m[37;41m[1m[37;41mJoe Siegler - Apogee Software                                                [1m[37;41m[40m
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