Posted By
Luca
on 2010-09-07
06:51:01
 |  Re: SID-card scheme?
Ok, now I've read the whole stuff.
Csio: I really didn't get the SID filter's worrying about, the Solder's SIDcard had never missed a $D417 
siz: I guess 99% of C64 tunes have been used on Plus/4 "as-is", with no particular optimization; not sure if some other tunes have been optimizated by Bionic in the past...
BSZ: what to add more into it? Dunno, what can we add? SD-card memory copier?  Really dunno, I'm kidding...maybe...
It's my opinion that almost any owner of a 264 machine, both sceners and collectors (and there are plenty of the latter ones) would buy a 2010 version of something that has been claimed to be, at this point, a common "homebrew" hardware involved in so much software till today. May I hazard a guess? Well, my "magic number" is: 50 overall covering the next months.
But BSZ doesn't need to have 50 in one shot. I suggest to, step by step:
1. ask for min.20 reliable buyers (hey guys, "reliable" here stands for "first money then SIDcard! There had been one Reddi only! :D);
(1½. prototype production and testing? dunno...);
2. production of 20s;
3. spreading word like hell, with pictures, (legal stuff?,) dedicated site, contacting 3rd party sellers (i.e.: Protovision);
3. deliver of 20s and collecting new requests (no money) with minimum quantity required to start producing'em.
At point 3, you've shown a real existent working piece of hardware, looking busy in the production, but next batch will be out only when a decent number of requests has been achieved. |
