Acornsoft Licenses Revs to Firebird for C-64

https://racesimcentral.net/acornsoft-licenses-revs-to-firebird-for-c-64/

Firebird were the game publishing division of British Telecom:

"We went on to publish Elite for other platforms with British Telecom, which at that point was still a government company. It hadn't yet been privatised. We said "Don't you make Telephones?"

David Braben, speaking in 2015

Acorn dropped the ball really here by not publishing REVs and Elite for other platforms in-house. They did not want to publish anything that was not for their hardware, so they essentially handed the keys to "tons of cash" to BT. The C-64, and ZX Spectrum markets were considerably larger than any Acorn hardware, especially globally.

The following year Acornsoft moved away from publishing games at all to focus on in-house office and productivity software. Most Acornsoft game titles were then licenced to Superior Software.

"I had converted REVS to the Commodore for Acornsoft but they ended up not publishing that version. Acornsoft had a desire to do it but Acorn itself didn't want to, because it was supporting another machine. So they asked Telecomsoft, who had the Firebird label, if they were interested, and that's how it ended up getting published by them.

Geoff Crammond, speaking in 2015

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wow, this is cracking info. A little shocked they were probably so secretive and silly that they wouldn't use Crammond's own port!

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