he original was one of the most popular Amiga RPGs ever. Seconds after our ScreenPlay previews spread went to press, longtime Amiga developer and dealer Epic Marketing revealed that they could finally announce the imminent release of Simon the Sorcerer 2 for the Amiga. The game was originally mooted for Amiga release back in 1994 by Adventuresoft, but they decided not to on account of the “soft” Amiga market and moved their operation over to the PC. However, Epic have been in negotiation with them for the rights to the Amiga version for some six months now. Initially, Adventuresoft stated that there was unfinished Amiga source code which could be used as the basis for a new version of the game, but in the final analysis, none could be found. This means that the game will be based entirely on PC source code, but also has all the features of the PC version including full speech, although, unfortunately, this isn’t done by the voice artist for the original Simon the Sorcerer, Chris Barrie. Epic are looking for pre-orders, to ensure that the rampant piracy doesn’t simply wipe out their ability to even recover their costs for the game which will be out at the start of February 2000. Vince Pike from Epic had this to say, “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re not selling any Virtual Grand Prix because of piracy and wipEout 2097was even available on pirate bulletin boards before it was released.” Words fail us when we consider what idiots pirates are. To anyone that’s pirating software now we say, “You are really killing the Amiga. If you don’t stop pirating Amiga software, no-one will write any and you won’t be able to pirate it any longer.
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