[Coco] Bejeweled, for the CoCo 3?

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:46 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote:

>Remember, kids -- at this point in history and our lives, _It's Only 
>a Hobby_.  There is a small amount of money to be made, but it ain't 
>gonna make anybody a financial peer of Bill Gates.  We're here for 
>the love of the game.  The joy of discovering something that nobody 
>would have imagined the machine could do a quarter of a

At least two or three very busy CoCo hobbyists have taken it a bit 
further, however.  The busier you are at producing things, the more 
people will come knocking on your door for cool stuff.  Because of 
this, I've put myself in a position where people come to me or my 
site for things that only time can produce, and I find myself putting 
in more hours at the keyboard than at my real job sometimes.  It's 
always nice to see a little green support, but in no way would I 
compare Mark, Boisy, or myself to trying to be a Gates, if I may 
speak for others as well.

I have to file a Schedule C form when I file my taxes, with all 
online ventures combined which include CoCo sales and web 
design.  Also, the Rainbow IDE sells to other vintage platform users 
which takes me a bit out of just the CoCo realm.  And the person who 
pushes it beyond just a hobby... Uncle Sam.  :)

Like I said, I stay extremely busy with all of this stuff and just 
recently did I decide to crank out some CoCo games to stay on my toes 
and to try out my own suite of make-something-happen tools.

In my own opinion, if someone wants to charge a few bucks for a cool 
game, then do it.  If not, put it out there for grabs.  Take 
complaints and act on them, and complain when needed.  ;)  But I 
usually don't complain to somebody that their product should be 
free.  However, I use lots of free or limited tools until I find 
myself needing them all the time, then I pay the fiddler.  Either 
way, the CoCo cash flow hops around in circles within our community 
since I give back in many ways most might not realize and I think 
others pass the buck around the same way to help keep the CoCo alive.