On 16 Aug 99, at 10:12, Nick Humphries wrote:
> * How many new SAMs are being sold a month? > Even if we knew the figures - which we are never likely to find out - the real question should be how many new SAMs are being sold to _new users_ each month? I'd hazard that most of the new machines sold are bought by people replacing their old ones. How on earth are we to expect new users to come to the machine when there is no publicity for it? There is no excuse for whoever holds the rights to the production of the SAM (Bob I think?) not to have website at the very least with the latest prices etc. I'm sure there would be loads of people ready to help him put one up there - I would be one. And what better way to put the word around about the SAM than by getting a decent emulator like SIMCoupe freely distributed among the PC world. The same kind of thing worked for the C64 and Speccy - people are actively huntuing down the orignial machines to run the software on. > If we're talking about single figures here (or even zero) then it's time > to start seriously thinking about accepting a combined future with > SimCoupe. It would surprise me if there have been more than ten sold in the last year. > * How many units of any particular software title are being sold a month? > * Is there any possibility of the older titles being rereleased either on > a compilation or separately. Now that is perhaps a very valid point. There would be a great demand for, say , The Enigma Collection or Pop, Lemmings and ONML all in the one pack. If the people who hold their licences still want to try and feed their families on the back of SAM Software sales, then this is the way forward. If not, let's get some stuff up on the FTP site. Hats off to Bob for getting the ball rolling with Outwrite - the best word processor the SAM has seen. I'm not sure how to get stuff onto the FTP - which was decided as the best format? Meanwhile, if anybody would like to help me get a SAM website cobbled together similar to World Of Spectrum then please private mail me - I'll be after screenshots, articles, reviews, links etc. But it's all got to be brand new stuff. I'm only starting on the idea now, and like everything I do it will probably take forever to get to completion, but I'd like to see the whole thing up to celebrate Happy 10th Birthday for Mr Coupe. Let me know. Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk "It won't get better but it might never get worse..."
