[Coco] SuperPak Cartridge... coming soon.

[Zippster]

I agree $30 is the right target price for a new (single) game cart.

A lot would depend on how much the plastic cases end up being.

How much space do you think would be needed?  I can see hitting that
target price with a simplified PCB with 1 CPLD and a 128k FLASH,
depending on the case cost of course.

- Ed


> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On 11/12/2015 9:02 AM, Zippster wrote:
>> Yeah, the $25 would include what I would want for building them, and logistics (others may vary).
>> If the cases could be had for $5, $30 plus shipping wouldn’t be too bad.
>> 
>> Of course there’s whatever the software author would want too, so I guess they
>> wouldn’t be too cheap, no.  That’s an 8MB chip though, so multiple titles if you wanted.
>> 
>> If someone were to write a nice menu system, with both classic and new titles on the cart,
>> it might be worth $50 a piece.
>> 
>> It really looks like all the pieces are here for some group members to pull together and
>> produce a nice multi-cart.  Something you see in other retro computer groups.
>> Just saying.  :)
>> 
> 
> I'm looking at it from the point of view of a developer with a new CoCo3 game to be released on cartridge.
> 
> A modern CoCo3 game with detailed graphics takes up more than 16K. The 32K "super cartridges" that Radio Shack sold were for the games Super Pitfall, RoboCop and Predator.
> 
> Remember that a 320x200 16 color graphics screen on a CoCo3 takes up 32K on it's own so sprites, tiles and maybe sound samples can easily chew up more than 8/16K.
> 
> 16K is not enough.
> 
> I suspect that with the CoCo's market for games, $50 is too high for a Rom Pack game. The CoCo market doesn't command the same level of game market space as an Atari, Commodore or Coleco unit.
> 
> We need some way to get the cartridge price to around $30 selling price to the consumer.
> 
> And I still don't see the value in a multi cart. Not when  you have a CoCoSDC for about $50 loaded with an SD card with every available game (Not just 8/16K ROM PAKS) in one compact cartridge.
> 
> Nick
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