Jon writes:
> Would Allegro be interested in focusing on what they do best, creating
> great software (possibly including an emulator), and be willing to
> outsource the distribution to a central entity that also has the rights
> to distribute MPE and 3rd party software?

After 20-something years we've learned that marketing is not our strong
suit, so it is likely that we would sell an emulator product through our
existing chain of distributors rather than trying to do it ourselves
directly.

If OpenMPE wants to be the distribution channel, then that's certainly a
possibility.  At this point we're talking about a production quality
commercial emulator product, so it's all about business and that means it's
all about money :-)

> This company would then collect the money for every copy of the emulator
> sold, perhaps they would use an "SSCONFIG" like tool to set a unique
> HPSUSAN, and then they would pay Allegro.

The SUSAN control is easy, you simply have a "license code" that you enter
when you install the software (just as with most PC applications) that
license the software for that machine and also sets what the SUSAN / CPUNAME
values will be.  You don't need any sort of "SS_CONFIG" program for that.

Gavin