And this is just as fun

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A string of lawsuits followed, with Amiga ordered to pay the Snoqualmie landlord $147,000 in rent, and two former employees $117,000 in unpaid wages and damages.
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Business records show Amiga legally shut down its Washington company in 2004. The new company — which McEwen said is legally separate from the old one and not obligated to pay those past debts — is registered as a Delaware corporation with headquarters in New York.
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And now there is another court case

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Now isn't this nice. I swear McEwen is just in it for the fun...I was just a bit confused hearing that Kent would entrust Amiga to take care of things for them. I just don't see it happening.

Hyperion is a more stable corporation than Amiga ;)

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I wondered when this would hit the media.

The plot thickens.

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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

What basically needs to happen is to get a group of investors to aggressively buyout both Commodore International and Amiga Inc., fuse the two companies back together. Return the company back to its old PA stomping ground; get in bed with Intel, Google, Sun and Adobe and build a quick solution with shared development/business model to mimick Apple's 1997 business model of a simple product line with an iMac like product to start (though instead of an all-in-one design with a monitor, it should be an all-in-one wedge keyboard ala A1200 design) as well as a a workstation class machine and get heavily involved with Newtek to bring back Toaster and Lightwave to the Amiga (maybe even get them to pull the plug in the Windows version eventually if the Amiga market takes off).

The return of the Commodore Amiga could be and would be a success with the right people involved.

Last edited by AmigaMac on 20-May-2007 at 02:13 AM.

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It's time to go the the ainc location and make report, interview and pictures, for the amiga users who like near this location.

Maybe a bounty for that

Last edited by Mrodfr on 20-May-2007 at 05:20 AM.

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BTW, what you have done for the amiga today ????

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Wow! Great article! Finally a critical but objective
and professional view of Amiga Inc.

Thanks Seattle Times for your work.

And by critical, I don't mean negative, but not biased
and sceptical -- just like a journalist should be.

Consistent with my earlier speculation, the Kent officials simply didn't want to muddy the water as long as the money has been promised. They knew about Amiga, Inc.'s problems but simply echoed the self-praise by McEwen as an accurate description of the company.

Well, there's really no risk to the Kent community. If McEwen once again falls flat on his face, the arena will just go looking for a new naming-rights buyer. I suppose they did what politicians are expected to do.

In the meantime, again the Amiga name goes through a process that does it more harm than good. One has to wonder how Bill McEwen could hope to portray the company as larger than life when a reporter can so easily stop by to check on the sad reality. Business as usual. And again we wait to see what the full impact will be.

-- gary_c

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He declared personal bankruptcy and is still owed about $80,000 from Amiga and McEwen.

That`s what you get for staying aboard a sinking ship, the alarm bells was ringing but you ignored them.