I guess some people already learned that one of our competitors has recently followed us in providing a free version, which we already offer since 2007. As we like free versions, we're eager to follow and will give Atari lite-C more features in the next time - no shaders, though. Atari lite-C will get WED and the game templates, and thus will basically have the same functions as the Extra Edition.

I understand that this might annoy users who forked out money for the Extra Edition in the last time. Fortunately there aren't many, as we're mostly selling Commercial and Pro. All people who purchased Extra since September 2009 will get a $50 discounted upgrade to Commercial. Please contact Support for claiming the upgrade. I hope this serves as a sort of compensation.

For technical reasons the new features of Atari lite-C and the discontinuation of the Extra Edition are not effective immediately, but will take some time.