I've no personal opinion beyond than that Colin's decision should be respected — but the law graduate part of me couldn't let it lie so, for the sake of playing devil's advocate:
(i) people would be more likely to buy the hardware because it would be more likely that developers had produced software for it; and (ii) in any case they'd be no less likely to because if they don't buy hardware that is emulated then they don't have a Sam to plug it into. I would phrase the other argument more that: (i) emulation reduces the perceived value of hardware, so will either push prices down or affect sales; and (ii) in any case is a fundamentally different experience from that Colin intended, so could accurately be described as an unapproved gross distortion of his efforts. Which is naturally not something he'd want. On 3 May 2013, at 08:42, Adrian Brown <adr...@enliten.force9.co.uk> wrote: > But you have to look at it from the other point of view. It takes a lot of > time and money to develop hardware. If it was readily available on > emulation why would anyone buy the hardware? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On > Behalf Of Marcos Cruz > Sent: 03 May 2013 15:25 > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: SimCoupe / Trinity > > En/Je/On 2013-05-02 23:09, Stefan Drissen escribió / skribis / wrote : > >>> Sorry Stefan, I'm still against my hardware being emulated in >>> SimCoupe. > >> That's a pity, it's your right of course, but I think you are >> preventing your work from flourishing in a larger (emulated) audience. > >> Allowing emulation may get some odd sods, myself included, wanting to >> write something for it, resulting in enough momentum for it to become >> interesting for a real SAM user, resulting in a sale for you. Sounds >> like egg and chicken basics to me. > > I agree with you, Stefan. > > Creating software and hardware for the real SAM is great and desirable, but > emulation is the way most people can use, program or even meet a SAM. > > In my opinion, emulating a good interface is an avail for its seller and for > the real machine users, because the interface becomes potentially more > useful, and more desirable. > > Marcos > > -- > http://programandala.set >
