Well, I think it boils down to simple economics. Look at the 2 most recent
PCE releases. Atlantean was recently released on a custom built HuCard
format, price is $60. HNB on SCD sells for half that. Now think about
hardware, how many TG-16s and Duos are out there that are still functioning
(and hooked up)? Those are the only machines that can play a HuCard game.
Whereas an SCD can be played in any emulator or Duo (yeah, I know, no
TG-16s for that). Then you have the piracy issue. If you released a PCE
game on a format that could easily be uploaded, it will be uploaded (I have
no doubt that HNB will be uploaded at some point too).
I am not saying it can't happen, but it just seems very unlikely that
anyone would invest the time needed for a PCE release, then do what they
can to not be able to recover the costs (and by costs I mean the costs of
the product, that is not including the development costs).
-bt
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Steve <xxxxxx@craftsathome.net> wrote:
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> I understand the ease and utility of using CD as a distribution medium,
> and also the flexibility in background music that a CD affords to a game.
> However, in these days of micro/mini SD cards, would it be "worth it" to
> distribute games on some kind of pseudo-Hucards with an SD card baked in? I
> would love to play new games on my Express as well as my Duo.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Sent from my Intellivision keyboard component.
>
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>
> > On Sep 7, 2014, at 3:14 PM, bt garner <xxxxxx@mindrec.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yo guys - the first batch of HNB CDs
>
> [snip]
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