[Coco] SuperPak Cartridge... coming soon.

[Mark McDougall]

On 11/12/2015 10:02 AM, Zippster wrote:

>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
>> wrote:

>> So factor in postage costs and a bit of profit to make it all seem
>> worthwhile... a game could end up costing $45-$50.
>>
>> Gee, it better be a good game.

I don't think that's an unreasonable price, and certainly not on the 
upper end of the scale for cartridge releases for other systems.

Take a look at homebrew cartridges for Atari, Colecovision, Vectrex etc 
and you'll see prices ranging from $20 up to $70 and more.

And if you really want a shock, check out the prices on new-release 
games for the Dreamcast (CD) and the Neo Geo (cartridge) by NGDEV - and 
they _always_ sell out I might add!

In any case, I'm not looking to make any money if/when I release a 
cartridge - happy to break even because I do it purely for the fun of 
it. If I do a cartridge, it'll effectively be a multi-cart anyway, so 
people can add their own (or my future releases) to it.

On that note, I'm currently working on another port to Coco3, much like 
I did for Lode Runner, from another classic machine (not the Apple this 
time). But it's very early days yet - despite having spent several 
months on it already - and I'm still a way off even writing the first 
6809 instruction.

The imminent availability of the cases has spurred me on to my dream of 
doing a cartridge release for Lode Runner. It's a shame it's 
all-but-finished but no-one can play more than a handful of screens atm. 
In February my son is due to start day care and in March I'm scaling 
back work from 5 days/wk to 3/4 (that's the current plan anyway) so I 
should have a decent block of time to dedicate to my retro hobbies. 
Note: plural!

Regards,

-- 
|              Mark McDougall              | "Electrical Engineers do it
|  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> |   with less resistance!"