Re: V: DVG Multigame

>Of course, buying one from Clay takes $100 out of your pocket.

True. However, doing it yourself takes a lot of time out of your
<fill in blank> (family, personal life, etc).

>Doing it yourself and documenting everything for others gives you the joy of
>figuring it out, saves money, and gives a small amount of fame (not that
>Neil needs the fame w/ EMU and Retrocade).

Yes, I agree. That's the difference between doing it for a hobby
and doing it for profit. If you do it yourself and document it for others,
than other people can profit from your effort. If you're worried about
this, than you keep your information secret. Cliff made the ESB hack,
and Clay turned around and sold it. Cliff wasn't doing it, so...

>Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Clay.

I'm not Clay and I can't say why he makes the choices he does.
To date, he hasn't "published" his work, which implies there's
an investment/profit motive. That's fine, especially if you're
looking for a turn-key system. Hobbyists, on the other hand,
may find it frustrating, not being able to get closer, or at least
understand how the h/w and s/w in their games works.
Just like when we gripe about the "new" (late '80s) games, not
shipping with schematics.

Would you publish *your* work, if you were trying to make a profit?
Remember, it takes money to buy tools, parts, etc..

>But even he made a commercial kit for the SW/ESB hack, even though a
>solution was already available. In this case, its unclear when or if
>he will release his asteroids multigame.
>
>(Although Neil, its probably worth you time to send Clay an email and
>see what his plans are)
>
>Jon
>
>** Aspiring to fix his Asteroids Deluxe a third time so he may some day be able to hook up an Asteroids w/ a multigame in it.
>
>At 08:30 AM 3/10/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>> >I thought "Hey! How about Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe/Lunar Multigame...
>>
>> >I'm soliciting input from others as to my approach, so I'll just start
>> >rambling. I'm no hardware expert, so if you see a flaw in my approach (or
>> >a better way to do it), please let me know!
>>
>>Um, depending on how much you value your time, I'd just buy one from
>>Clay. I believe he's already finished it. If I recall correctly,
>>there isn't enough demand to make it worth his time.
>>
>>If he's not going to manufacture it, maybe you can get him to
>>"GPL" the project. It's at least worth asking, before you go to all the
>>trouble of reinventing the wheel.
>>
>>-Mark

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Received on Fri Mar 10 11:55:20 2000