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Re: Mega65
If enough of those people share the same dream, they could pool their money and offer it to someone who can programm Mega65 full-time. Somehow like a reverse kickstarter. I remember some years ago there was a project called "Commdore Bounty" that worked on a similar concept. As I remember GEOS-support for SD2IEC came out of that.
Re: Mega65
yeah but that was a trivial job compared to what those people are dreaming of (a graphical OS, a web browser, a IDE with a compiler, etc)
I'm just a Software Guy who has no Idea how the Hardware works. Don't listen to me.
Re: Mega65
Two years. In Brian Bagnall's book, Bil mentioned that he fully expected the Amiga was the way to go.tokra wrote:The C128 was already the computer designed to be the swan-song for the 8-bit-area. Bil Herd once mentioned that Commodore thought it would be sold for about a year.
Dave Haynie's 1986 follow-up project, the C256, was essentially cancelled, because it was its pricing was too close to the B52 (which became the Amiga 500).Production was stopped only because it cost more to produce a C128 than an Amiga at that time and the C128 had to be sold for less.
So, in this 1985-1986 time span, CBM had four platforms for consideration... with only a limited amount of money to devote for full production. Those computers were the C128, the C900, the Commodore LCD, and the Amiga. The C128 and the Amiga won out, CBM thinking those computers would make the most immediate profit. The C900 and the Commodore LCD would linger in development hell and were eventually cancelled.
The C128 does have a respectable amount of business software.There may be a handful of demos for it (like for the C64DTV and C128)...
The talk on the Mega65 forum is currently on porting over GEOS (among other topics). http://mega65.net/...people shouldn't project all their hopes for fantastic software to it, they will be disappointed.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
June 9-10 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2018 - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex
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Re: Mega65
I think it will be better in 20-25 years or so because then many Commodore fans will be retired and will probably have a lot of spare time to sit and program as a hobby .tokra wrote:If enough of those people share the same dream, they could pool their money and offer it to someone who can programm Mega65 full-time. Somehow like a reverse kickstarter. I remember some years ago there was a project called "Commdore Bounty" that worked on a similar concept. As I remember GEOS-support for SD2IEC came out of that.
Re: Mega65
and as we all know, spreadsheets and wordprocessors is what people are using on 8bit computers in 2018The C128 does have a respectable amount of business software.
I'm just a Software Guy who has no Idea how the Hardware works. Don't listen to me.
Re: Mega65
As to amount of C128 software (commercial, not homebrew), seeI wrote:The C128 does have a respectable amount of business software.
http://retro-link.com/smf/index.php?PHP ... pic=1366.0
Oh-oh, moving off-topic,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
June 9-10 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2018 - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex
Aug. 11-12 Commodore Vegas Expo v14 2018 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex