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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
Posted on 22-Aug-2013 14:32:01
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ok. New name Patrick Roberts to have a look at.

Quote:
Patrick Roberts one of the three Disney animators involved revealed why they produced these designs, "The three of us provided the artwork because we are devoted Amiga users and fans, and did so offering to help out in what ever way we could (plus Bill McEwen is cool)

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and

Quote:
"We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate compelling
content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one of the founders at
Edivision.

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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
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@number6

Martyn Brown is a very active internet person, he posts on news forums and so on and he knows whats going on but maybe someone (AGI) failed to grasp the dream17 policy?.

i know that some of the other games have been "ok'd" by the owner(s) of the IP and that it was done in a proper and good manner but reading sites like Eurogamer and IGn on these things certainly makes me pretty sure that many of the titles is games they "thought" was free due to them being released on BTTR,Amigafuture cd's and so on.

i contacted many devs in the last decade and most of them who i actually could reach basically said, "yes sure you can do that as we don't care" and others (atari / owner of ocean/infogrames etc) was more like.. hmm what? , do we own that?.

i bet Andreas Magerl can fill in loads of these things as he works on getting games for his magazine AmigaFuture a lot, maybe he have been contacted by AGI ?

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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
Posted on 23-Aug-2013 13:15:46
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Not related to Amiga Games Inc., but mention is made of Amiga Games:

impact that the shutdown of Games for Windows Live has on games that use it

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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
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Someone else writing about the new personalities mentioned:

AmigaAnywhere soon to become AmigaEverywhere

Also mentioned is a partial games list.

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Nothing new really but since we have the other bizpedia link about Amiga Games Inc. with obvious problems in content, here's the one for Amiga Inc.:

http://www.bizapedia.com/wa/AMIGA-INC.html

Still showing "inactive".

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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
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Another interesting post, imo:

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I've heard reference to ENU. Is that possible in this context or am I totally off base?

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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
Posted on 30-Aug-2013 12:53:38
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This might go far in answering some of the earlier posts, where we discussed what would be required re:emulation:

Source

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Just guesswork from my part, but Elysian Labs is following Amiga Forever / Cloanto on Twitter, so a deal could be in place (meaning they have a license to use Kickstart ROMs)


Hmmm...or perhaps they are just doing the smart thing and watching for potential violations against their own intellectual property.

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Quote:
AGI leverages the intellectual property of Amiga Inc., and builds on the "Amiga" brand and technology

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and this takes us right back to:

this

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@thread

Some edits/clarifications/additional links:

Post #1

I guess he's being conservative in calling some things facts.

But it was clear from the press release (to me anyway) that Patrick Roberts was president and not Bill McEwen, as mentioned in earlier posts here.

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From their FB page:
Vojin Vidanovic How is company related to Amiga Inc, and how does it get licenses for games? Indeed, nice to see retro mania is back
Like · Reply · August 21 at 10:20pm

Amiga Games, Inc Amiga Games Inc has licensed various items from Amiga Inc, for example the use of Amiga trademark name in our company name. Amiga Games Inc licenses classic games directly from the games' current rights holder.
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Re: Term Sheet for New Acquisition of Amiga Games Inc.
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From Investor's Hub. Lots of comments to read but particularly the posting of a few questions and answers from Patrick Roberts:

Question:

Quote:
Message via Amiga Games website contact button:---

name = Jim
message = Hi AGI,

What is Bill McEwen's involvement with AGI...is he President? CEO?
Thanks,
-Jim


Answer from Patrick Roberts:

Quote:
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 5:20 PM
Subject: Message from Amiga Games website

Hi Jim
Thanks for your message.
Bill McEwen is President and CEO of Amiga Inc, which is a separate
company from Amiga Games Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Writers Group Film Corp.

Best Regards,
Pat Roberts
President
Amiga Games Inc


Question:

Quote:
Hi Pat,

Thank you very much for answering my question. Another one please...
Is he an officer or director of Amiga Games Inc.?


Answer from Patrick Roberts:

Quote:
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Message from Amiga Games website

Hi Jim

AGI has retained Bill as an outside business consultant, but no, he's
neither an officer nor director of Amiga Games Inc (AGI) or Writer's
Group.

Best Regards,
Pat
AGI / RI


Question:

Quote:
Hi Pat,

Thanks again for getting back to me. In regards to your answer if he's
only a consultant then why does he show up as the President on the corporate
records?
http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=603311939
-Jim


Answer from Patrick Roberts:

Quote:
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Message from Amiga Games website

Hi Jim

Prior to Writer's Group purchase of Amiga Games Inc, Bill was
President of AGI. We submitted a notice of change when the purchase
was finalized but the Washington SoS must not have updated their
online records (see the disclaimer at the top of the page you sent).

Best Regards,
Pat Roberts
AGI / RI


Question:

Quote:
Hi Pat,
Sounds like he got fired? Would that be correct?

Thanks


Answer from Patrick Roberts:

Quote:
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Message from Amiga Games website

Hi Jim

Bill wasn't fired. It was planned he would step down as a director and
hand over the presidency upon successful completion of the Writer's
Group terms sheet.

Imagine you go to a bakery. You don't want to buy the entire bakery,
just the bagels. The bakery puts the bagels into a plastic bag. They
hand you the bag and you examine the bagels, pay for them, and take
them home. Amiga Games Inc, in a business sense, is like the plastic
bag. First it was owned (or controlled) by Amiga Inc (Bill McEwen),
Amiga Inc filled it with the stuff Writer's Group wanted to buy.
Writer's Group examined the contents, paid for it, and took it home.
(Not a perfect metaphor, but hopefully it helps illustrate the
relationship between Amiga Inc, Amiga Games Inc, and Writers Group)

Best,
Pat
AGI / RI


Request made at the source below to post replies unedited, which I have done here as well as giving credit to the source. Hope this helps.

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Who is.. Writers Group Film Corp?

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Quote:
Who is.. Writers Group Film Corp?


Start with page 1 of the thread. All the links you could possibly want in order to follow this story are here.

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@thread

Investors Hub for WRIT links back to this thread, and there still seems to be a lot of back and forth on the topic.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=91834926

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Writers' Group Film Corp. Secures Equity Line Facility of US$10 Million

Form 8-K for WRITERS GROUP FILM CORP

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Just a little bit about Dutchess Capital Management, the company making the loan mentioned in the last post:

http://dutchesscapital.com/management&team_id=3

Quote:
Douglas H. Leighton
Managing Partner


and...

Quote:
Defendant Douglas Leighton


Cannonball Fund, Ltd., et al. v. Dutchess Capital Management, LLC,

It's a lot to read, but interesting.

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Posted on 17-Sep-2013 1:54:13
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Interesting to see changes in the "who we are" bits.

From today's press release, this is how Amiga Games sees itself:

Quote:
Amiga Games Inc. licenses classic pre-Windows computer game libraries and republishes the most popular titles for smartphones, modern game consoles, PCs, and tablets. The Company builds on the "Amiga" and other "MS-DOS" brands and technologies to create new revenue from publisher's dormant game libraries.


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Amiga Games Inc. licenses classic pre-Windows game libraries...


Quote:
and The Company builds on the "Amiga" and other "MS-DOS" brands and technologies


OK... hold the phone. THAT is just &%*µ$§!! offensive! How can they think the Amiga OS is built on MS-DO$? Tossers.

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Quote:
Amiga Games Inc. licenses classic pre-Windows game libraries...


Quote:
and The Company builds on the "Amiga" and other "MS-DOS" brands and technologies



Quote:
OK... hold the phone. THAT is just &%*µ$§!! offensive! How can they think the Amiga OS is built on MS-DO$? Tossers.



I'm trying to give them benefit of the doubt that this is just bad writing, but indeed...that gets more difficult with each passing day.
Perhaps they really do not know what they are acquiring. I mean REALLY do not know.

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Perhaps this is reaction to concerns we've already seen posted:

Writers' Group Film Corp. Engages Secure Media Partners as Anti-Piracy Strategists

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