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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

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43 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 01:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Simon_ORourke ◴[17 Nov 24 07:40 UTC] No.42162612[source]▶
Profit?! Commodore 64!! Sirs I duly doff my cap in your general direction.
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mdp2021 ◴[17 Nov 24 09:20 UTC] No.42163007[source]▶
They are still selling C64 games, which are still being written.

One example of boxed-games shop: https://rgcd.bigcartel.com/category/commodore-64

A page of a C64 games producer on Itch: https://psytronik.itch.io/

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sagacity ◴[17 Nov 24 09:28 UTC] No.42163049[source]▶
If you can call selling maybe hundreds of copies of a game profitable then you clearly know your way around personal finance :)
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1. evoke4908 ◴[17 Nov 24 18:09 UTC] No.42165728[source]▶
That's pretty much exactly how the video game industry worked when the C64 was new, so yes. There was a time when a single developer could produce a game for essentially free, sell a few hundred copies, and feel good about it.