Re: CMD products for GS (NTSC->RGB?, Scan Doublers, 20MHz)

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ddmw@hunterlink.net.au (Marc Walters) wrote

>Awww. After all the years of Apple users taunting us poor, witless
>Commodore 64 users, you finally come crawling...   :)

We don't mind crawling.  ;-)  I'll be the first to admit that Commodore
users are more sane.  You don't complain about hardware and
software developments and you see a market in an orphaned platform.

>CMD may be your best (last?) hope. If you can come up with enough
>numbers (market size, users, rate of upgrades, etc) to show CMD
>that they might make some maney out of the GS userbase, and pester
>them enough to realise that you've turned out to be good guys after
>all, then maybe, just maybe, they might do something.

I wish I could say that yes, we are a good customer base.  Sadly, I
am not so sure we are anymore.  Just look at Wolf 3D.  We are
complaining about free software.  We complain about our only video
card, the Second Sight.  I do believe that there is a silent majority
here that still actively buys hardware for the GS.  Otherwise, I can't
imagine Alltech, Sequential, and SHH Systems can continue to
make and sell hardware for us.  The market is here if you can ignore
the criticisms that fly from those who have moved on to other
computers can't see the hobby value of fueling development for a
classic computer.

>Better chance still if they don't have to spend on R&D- if there are
>already existing plans for the requested hardware CMD could just
>build the stuff in their workshop in the role as a 'job shop' (or
>whatever the American term is).

If we could get Zip/MCTA Technologies to give CMD production rights
to the Zip GS, that would be great.  CMD has experience in building
65C816 accelerators and there are many GS users actively looking
for this product.  These products are also somewhat rare used and the
prices have went up since the supply of new ones were gone.

>I find it pretty shocking to see that there is next to no commercial
>support in the upgrade/hardware area? Whatever happened to the likes
>of Warp Tech, and their competitors?

All gone.  It must have been the doom and gloom speak on usenet.

>Oh, slightly off topic here, whatever happened to the rights to
>Apple2 GEOS? Did anyone manage to get hold of Geoworks regarding
>the release of it as Freeware or whatever? (re: a thread about
>12 months ago)

Apple II GEOS was never as popular as the Commodore version, but
it was a great environment for accelerated 8-bit users.  What did
happen to the rights to it?  Has Willie Yeo's Treasure Chest project
tracked it down and reclassified it?  I had a copy long ago, but it was
heavily copy protected.  The hard drive install also failed to see SCSI
drives.  Was there ever an update?