@meluzzy @wyatt @link that's because #Cloanto and #Commodore before them themselves because it includes #MicrosoftBasic code they themselves don't have rights to redistribute beyond the original terms with a device.

• So in short you should be kinda mad at #Microsoft and #Commodore lawyers who originally drafted the #BASIC sublicensing agreement.

But in return it's "watertight" enough that Microsoft wasn't able to force a #delisting upon #MEGA64, #CommanderX16 and others.

• Or it's because they don't want to waste time of their #legal department better spend prosecuting pirates of current products than on something that had the books closed 30+ years ago and is basically no-effort - #profit these days...

@rodneylives My first suggestion would be: Don't. Even new #C64 game releases are sold as e.g. disk (D64) or cart (CRT) image downloads. People interested in this kind of stuff nowadays can probably be expected to just install an emulator on their machine 😉

If you still want to do that, I don't know any existing solution, but it's certainly possible and reminds me a bit of what #Cloanto is doing with their #c64forever product. But be careful, VICE is #GPL licensed, so for derived work, sure you can sell it, but you're obliged to make your modified source available publicly and free of cost.