Re: What happened to the Zip chip?!?!

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

ljsilicon@aol.com (LJSILICON) wrote:

>Supertimer said....
>
>>LJSILICON's comments are different.  He is proclaiming that there
>>is no market in orphaned computers and seems to want all new
>>software and hardware development dead. 
>
>That is not what I said at all. I said that the computer is no longer made and
>that NO ONE could make a living at this point by developing software or
>hardware for the GS

So you are now saying there IS a market here?

Whether one can live off of orphan computer software development is one
thing.  To say there is NO market at all is totally different.

CMD makes hardware for the Commodore 64 many which sell at high
prices ($150, $300, or even more) each.  They sell enough units to
justify continued operations and even release a new product now and
then.

Message?  Complaining that the A2 is dead is not productive.

>I am 100% certain that NO ONE can make a full time living developing
>Apple II software or hardware at this stage of the game.

A spokesperson from CMD sent email to me informing me that they
were in fact "in it for the money" when making hardware for the C64
and C128.  Why is it that THEY can make money on THOSE "dead"
computers while A2 vendors can't?

Again the question is not "can someone live off these developments"
it is "is there profit to be made here"...in the Commodores' case, the
answer is yes.  Thus, there IS a market.

Complaining that the A2 is dead does no good!

>Software piracy of 20 year old titles has no impact on this.

This much we agree...

>I will go on record as saying, if something good comes out for the Apple
>(non-Mac) line, I will BUY it. So, if you are a developer and you want to sell
>some goods, let me know! Supertimer, what was the last thing you bought for
>your Apple? How much did you spend in the last two years on new equipment?
I've
>done my share.

I bought AppleWorks 5 and a Sequential Systems RAM GS (4MB) card
for the GS tower that I built.  We can exchange A2 support "credentials"
all day, that's not the point.  We should not keep beating ourselves over
the head with "A2 is dead"...Commodore users don't do this!  It will do us
no good.

And, while you obviously don't pirate newly released titles and indeed
support these developments, let me just say that those who DO pirate
these DO hurt the chances of continued A2 software development.  Such
piracy hurts new development more in an orphaned computer than in the
Wintel or Macintosh world for the very fact that the market is smaller...