NOTICE FROM THE WEBMASTER
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Hi everyone,

It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce we can no longer offer support for 'Apparatus: Exanimus' as well as our other existing titles.

Unfortunately, 'Apparatus: Exanimus' has not met our sales goals for the quarter, and we can no longer justify the cost of providing support for a dwindling userbase.

I can't put into words how appreciative both me, and all of the developers are for the people that played and came here to discuss 'Apparatus'.

Now I've got the corporate lines out of the way, between you and me, I don't think it's likely we're going to be around much longer. Dave (the man in charge) has been having lots of long meetings with Nora (our CFO) lately, and Jamie (our COO) has left the company.

Dave and Jamie were always super close, so for Jamie to have left there must be something seriously wrong.

Anyway... thank you for coming to the site. It was great watching you all exploring and mapping out our game. I wish more people ended up seeing it before we had to call it, but what can you do! At least we had this, and that's what it's all about.

Been a strange year for me. Farewell everyone!

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Graham Porter
Webmaster and Game Designer
DIRUS Software
March 10th, 1999