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I returned to school in the fall of 1982, but only lasted for one semester. At that time I joined with my Parsec partner, [[Jim Dramis]] and the author or [[TI Invaders]], [[Garth Dollahite]], along with two business types and we formed a company called SofMachine. Our charter was to author, produce and market game cartridges for the TI 99/4A, kind of like the TI version of Activision. White Sofmachine was in existence, we wrote three games of our own and converted two games for [[Atarisoft]]. The games we wrote during that time were:

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| Jungle Hunte || [[Jim Dramis|Dramis]]/[[Paul Urbanus|Urbanus]] || [[Atarisoft]]

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Because our business partners were unsuccessful at securing the required capital funding, combined with TI's exit from the home computer market, we were unable to manufacture and market our (Sofmachine's) three games. However, due to a sequence of events beyond our control, the Sofmachine games were pirated and eventually freely exchanged around the TI 99/4A community. A valuable lesson was learned: NEVER trust anyone with your own livelihood. Lesson number two: Don't believe what a "business" guy tells you just because they're the business guys and you're the technical guys, ESPECIALLY if it goes against your gut instincts.