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    Profits. The C128 cost about the same to manufacture as an Amiga 500 but sold for much less, thus generating less profit. The 64C by that time was cheap enough to make that even at its lower selling price it made more money than the 128.

     

    Commodore was also simplifying its product line due to limited resources. If you wanted an 8bit games machine, you could buy a 64, if you wanted 16 bits and better productivity, you bought an Amiga or PC-clone. Not much software of any type was being produced for the 128.

     

    Having said all that, I love my 128 and consider it the best 8bit machine ever made.

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    1 hour ago, motrucker said:

    Any one else remember The Radar Basic Cartridge? It added about 20Kb to the C-64. It also had a tape fast loader, showing its European heritage.

    I bought one at a World of Commodore Show (in Philadelphia Pa., ages back there) from a Software Hut stand.

    Wow,that one rings a bell but a quick google/ebay search turned up nothing.  Got any pictures?

     

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    I'd say print buffers were fairly successful in the 8-bit business market, though maybe not so much for home use.  We used to lug Kaypros around at work as portable data loggers, and the buffers were very useful as they allowed us to send a report to the printer then get on with making data backups or whatever else we needed the Kaypro for without waiting for a 20-page report to come out of the very slow dot matrix printer.

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    27 minutes ago, zezba9000 said:

    Stupid quest but how / where do you check your position on the list?

    See post 3503 above for how to check your spot on the retroHQ list, which is what I was referring to. Not sure how to check position on the AA list, but as I said, I'm not worrying about it.

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    The Digital Press rarity guide I was using back in the late 90s gave Sears picture Adventure an R4, and I know I found my copy in the wild at some thrift store or garage sale.  In fact, I found all the Sears variants (except Superman) in the wild, so I doubt that any of them would rate above an R6 (I hardly ever found anything rated higher than R6).

     

    Not sure why there are so few showing up online.  Maybe because collecting these label variants is too much of a niche to draw sellers out.  They tend to use sites like pricecharting, which doesn't track A2600 label variants, or gamevaluenow, which does but lumps all Sears variants into one number, to determine if what they have is worth selling.

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    Interestingly, this somewhat contradicts what I'm hearing.  All Goodwills, and other thrift stores, are still closed in my area but some donation sites are open.  A story in the newspaper said that those donation stations were being overwhelmed as many people have been using the lockdown time to clean out closets and garages. Goodwill sells most of its games online, but other thrifts don't so I'm hoping for a surge of stuff to eventually make it onto the shelves once the stores reopen. 

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