Re: Poll: would you pay for SimCity and Ultima II for the IIgs?

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"The Wizard of Oz" <Wizard@EmeraldCity.Gov> wrote:

>In Winnipeg (Canada) we are renowned for a number of things. The major one 
>is we are the largest city in the middle of nowhere.

You must not get out much. I live in Gimli which according to our proximity 
must then be "nowhere"... when I lived in Winnipeg it felt like "nowhere" so 
I can certainly understand. I was born there.

>Another is this area was settled by some of the downright cheapest groups 
>on the planet.

My people were not rich. The dollar had a value back then...

>I myself belong to half of them. ;-)

The other half use PC's. I belong to that group and if weren't for the fact 
that I actually made money by writing software on the Apple II I would never 
have bothered... too damned expensive.

>You can use my opinion for the lower boundary.

Or mine. I would pay for the media and small duplication charge. In this day 
and age the software should be free and open source. There aren't enough of 
us using Apple II's or Gs's on the planet to gouge anymore... not too long 
from now there will be less of us.

>I would pay for them but would prefer not to.

Well, exactly...

>In general I'd pay $2.00 (Canadian) for a GS game (shipping included - 
>shipping is terribly expensive here).

That's exactly what I was thinking... maybe we are cheap around here. Or 
realistic...

>Particularly if it will install and work under an emulator running under OS 
>X or Linux.

I think the disk images should just be uploaded and made available for free 
download and that's the end of it. Then a guy could just put them on his 
microdrive and make his own disks if he wanted real ones.

Regards,

Bill

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