Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpe!daryl
From: daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Financial aspects of new 8 bit software
Message-ID: <3916@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 02:55:43 GMT
Organization: Engineering Design Process Department, AT&T Bell Labs
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I am curious about the aspects of software production for the 8 bit 
ATARI machines.  As we all know, there is a considerable lack of new
software for the 8 bit machines.  However, there seems to be continued
new software for apple, C64, etc.

It seems to me that once a piece of software is developed for the other
6502 machines (especially the C64) that the conversion to the XL/XE
machines would be fairly easy.  Surely there are a lot of us professional
types that would be interested in doing something like that.

The question I do not know the answer to is what is the pay back for 
converted software?  How much would the original author get?  How much
would the converting author get?  How many copies would need to be sold
to at least break even for the effort?

There are a lot of 800's, XL's, XE's, and XE games out there.  I can't
believe the market is not there.

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