[Coco] Bejeweled, for the CoCo 3?

[Roger Taylor]

At 10:48 AM 1/20/2008, you wrote:

>Roger, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but writing or building 

>anything for the CoCo and expecting much of a return is ludicrous. 

>It's a small community or mostly hackers, not many users/gamers. If 

>you expect to make money off the CoCo you may as well pack up the 

>site and go on to something else. I'd hate to see that, you have one 

>of the best CoCo sites out there. You'd be better off asking for 

>donations to pay for the server and offering to send a "free" game 

>in return for a certain size donation than selling the games and 

>expecting a return.

>Like my AMC car hobby, the CoCo is something that you have to 

>support as a labor of love, and you might be able to break even if 

>you're lucky. Even the guys at Cloud-9 don't make a lot of profit, 

>and if they had to count their R&D and assembly time as well as 

>other overhead (home office, the little extra on the power bill, 

>etc.,) at going rates, they're losing money.


If anyone knows about supporting the CoCo as a labor of love, it's me.   ;)