How about this idea... With all of these cheapo spell-checkers,
computerized bibles, organizers, etc. selling for under $50, what about
making a dedicated thing using the same hardware but different ROMs?
I'm sure some of those things have more powerful computers in them than
some of the old 8-bit machines that ran infocom games. You could
probably charge $40 or so and include 5 games. I seem to remember
someone saying that some of those spell-checkers/etc have 6502 CPUs
and a system similar to the old Apple II, with the only difference
between the different models is the ROMs. You might even be able to
do something like a spell-checker, a scrabble dictionary, and a
few IF games.
Greg
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