I don't buy the argument that emulation helps or hinders sales of physical products, at least not these days! I think anyone who wants to use real hardware is probably already using it and anyone who doesn't want physical hardware probably isn't going to change their mind.
In any case it's pretty academic, Colin has been consistently against his stuff being emulated so that's the way it is. Sent from my iPad On 3 May 2013, at 17:10, Tommo H <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Marcos Cruz >> Sent: 03 May 2013 15:25 >> To: [email protected] >> 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 >>
