Colin, your prices are reasonable, i congratulate you for doing your work on the sam, i know just how difficult it is to make any money from stuff like this nowadays, I'd certainly purchase stuff from you without a second thought if i wasnt selling my sam next month
Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Piggot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Games > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fred Bloggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > why would anyone want to charge for software relating to a > > dead computer? > > I spend a lot of time and money doing new stuff for the Sam (probably far > too > much in both counts) and all this bickering out there does no good at all. > There > are still a lot of people out there who appreciate new software and > hardware for > the Sam and I really, really enjoy doing it. > > I still get quite a few emails every so often with little snide comments > about > prices. I don't appreciate comments saying 'that's too expensive' when > they > clearly have no idea whatsoever what has gone into developing then and > making > them. Development costs of designing and building prototypes, PCB costs > etc... > it's not cheap producing new hardware on a very small scale for the Sam > world, > yet I continue to do it and getting slagged for it is certainly not what I > like > to read in my inbox. > > One example was the disk drive systems I launched last May... I charge 48 > quid > for replacement disk drive and interface board, more expensive than I > intended > but thats really due to having to the costs of getting my hands on the > obsolete > WD1772 controller, but still cheaper than the original 80 quid SamCo disk > drive > systems, and it works out about the same as the PC disk drive system that > West > Coast / Format offered several years ago. Yet I get one or two emails a > month to > me saying it is 'rather expensive'.... > > Thankfully the people who do buy products from me, appreciate the work and > effort that goes into them - and I also hasten to add, that I have never > had any > complaints from people who actually buy the product and see for themselves > the > amount of work I put into it all. > > A big round of applause to them, it gives me the encouragement to continue > working on new things - my website shows all the new hardware and software > releases from myself over the last year - disk drives, 2-way cards, memory > expansions to name a few .... and now the brand new mouse interface I > launched > on Monday, as well as continuing to release software regularly and another > big > game that is still in development (although not been worked on recently > due to > lack of time, but it's still my aim to finish it) > > Colin > ==== > Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam > For all the recent Quazar news, see the new look website: > http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/
