Re: A new pseudo-disk for Apple 2.

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

SbM wrote:
> <heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote:
> >
> > And who says all hardware developers should work entirely for free and
> > on own risk?
>
> Not me for sure. Please don't get too mad about this : I just asked a
> naive question to try and understand the price difference. Alex needs to
> gain something from his work, for sure. Sorry if some of you took it as
> an insult : this was definitely not intended.

Hey, I'm not mad! Damnit!!!  ;-)

No, please don't be too touchy - I wasn't meaning to flame.

> Now if only we could find a way to lower the price in such a way that
> Alex could /still/ get the same amount of money from each board sold,
> that would be great.

Nothing to say against that.

> Maybe Alex could get in touch which the people who created the MMC64 and
> the 1541-III for the Commodore 64, just so that he could ask them how
> they manage to offer such a low price ?

I hope they get enough revenue out of their projects to keep supporting
and producing them at this price. To name an example, Rich 'CFFA'
Dreher does this for years - and he is in his fourth(?) production run.
I don't know if you have a CFFA-card, but IMHO its very well worth its
price. And as Alex said, Rich documents everything - you can see how
complicated it was to create and how refined the design is. He tracks
and documents every single card he sells and I can personally confirm
his willingness to assist his customer.

And to give it yet another spin:
Yes, I am willing to spend some Euros/Dollars more - for a product that
I know is tested and supported to a certain degree. My time is too
precious and my money to valuable to spend on questionable or even
unreliable articles (note: I'm not saying that the C64-addons are!).

bye
Marcus