I asked Clay about the multi boards the other day...
He said this;
"the old Arcadeshop design is pretty dead in the water. The chinese managed
to clone it and people quit buying the more expensive, legit ones from
Arcadeshop. The problem that created was that we were doing the software
development "for free" and it was being paid for by sales of hardware. (So
basically everyone got software updates for no charge, but we relied on
Arcadeshop selling more boards to be paid for the work.) Once some sellers
made the clones avaiable, we stopped getting paid for our work-- so that
doesn't fly as a business model. ;-)
That having been said, there is a new version of that board that's been out
in a private beta test for a while now. More features, faster, more games,
etc. Not sure when it'll go up for sale, but it's basically done-- just
waiting for Arcadeshop to decide when they want to release it. "
He said this;
"the old Arcadeshop design is pretty dead in the water. The chinese managed
to clone it and people quit buying the more expensive, legit ones from
Arcadeshop. The problem that created was that we were doing the software
development "for free" and it was being paid for by sales of hardware. (So
basically everyone got software updates for no charge, but we relied on
Arcadeshop selling more boards to be paid for the work.) Once some sellers
made the clones avaiable, we stopped getting paid for our work-- so that
doesn't fly as a business model. ;-)
That having been said, there is a new version of that board that's been out
in a private beta test for a while now. More features, faster, more games,
etc. Not sure when it'll go up for sale, but it's basically done-- just
waiting for Arcadeshop to decide when they want to release it. "
