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Commodore Follows Up TV Game With ROM Selling

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pets-and-vic-20s dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Since Commodore recently re-appeared selling a Commodore 64 joystick 'TV game', as previously mentioned on Slashdot Games (the company is now owned by Dutch computer builder Tulip), they're now expanding their efforts, and have set up a legal emulation site where you can buy classic Commodore 64 titles, initially including Epyx and Hewson titles. Apparently, in a later stage, Commodore will release a Gentoo Linux based set top box which plays MP3s and runs Commodore 64 games."

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  1. Commodore MP3 player by hool5400 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Commodore brand also popped up on a cheap-and-nasty MP3 player a little while back, as shown on Dan's Data.

    Apparently it's unlicenced, but certainlty a shock to the brain to see that logo on a recent product.

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  2. Re:I wonder by DZign · · Score: 5, Informative

    The developers got paid for developing back then.
    It's the current copyright owners who now cash in royalties.

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  3. "Credits system" by GoRK · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear StarRoms and Commodoreworld,

    In case anyone who is responsible for business decisions in one of these companies is reading this...

    The "Credits" system you folks have devised and deployed for purchaing ROMs is completely bogus unless you also have some way of earning credits other than spending money. If credits are equivalent to money, then please publish a price. You have to dig pretty deep and pull out a calculator to find out that a game will (for instance) cost you $7.00 up front or $3.25 if you purchase a monthly subscription instead.

    I understand the reasoning behind the credits system, but if it is not easy for someone to equate it to a dollar value, then you are driving away customers. It is not very hard to calculate price tables in this manner. You might consider using wording to this effect:

    "100 credits (as low as $1.00)"

    In this example, clicking on the "as low as" should bring up a pricing table explaining that it's $5.00 if you buy it outright and can be as low as $1.00 if you buy a package of 2000 credits)

    ~GoRK