So the gloves are off and without any direct finger pointing, it's obvious that Hyperion is being identified as the ne'erdowells.

If significant overtures (read offers of "millions of dollars") have been made to remedy the situation then what are the outstanding issues?

Some more lies for some more money from some last amiga users :) "we want as you, we with us, we will help". How many time amigans will eat this kind of bullsh.t ? really, it looks very funny after 10 years of the same talks about nothink.

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We've been told many things over the years which have never materialised and are understandably skeptical.

With more communication of progress it would be easy to whip the Amiga Community into a frenzy of excitement. You really need an Amiga evangelist.

Proof of hardware development, especially from ACK, would allay many concerns.
Disclosure of future plans for the OS would dismiss the FUD circulating.

Sure you're going to get naysayers whatever you do, which is just a given in this community, but, proof of activity would really go a long way, in what the community considers desperate times.

edit: Corrected grammar.

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.

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Oh stop already Bill. If everthing is "progressing" then why did you fail to meet your obligations on the stadium. How about ACK not delivering anything, not even a prototype board. Maybe if I look out my window and see some pig fly by, then I would believe you care about OS 4 shipping.

When I first started reading this letter, I thought, what, they are going to sue the community.

What a joke. Amiga Inc. is like the rash you just can't get rid of.

Yogi

P.S. Bill, Would you please sell the Amiga to DiscreetFx and be on your way.

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For those of you wanting to point fingers and blame Amiga for the fact that OS 4.0 is not shipping, you are pointing your fingers at the wrong people, and frankly I am not going to sit quietly any longer and let this unfounded criticism continue.

Dont know but this mail feels like blaiming all other but themselfs. They are the real amigians and we are the pointfingers.

Come on..... how much have they done to get license to HW makers and try to rise os4 up to the skies ?

Sorry for beeing so negative.... Some positive words. I hope they learn something ;) Wee need os4/HW first and not any mobilephones, motorcycles, mediastuff etc. That can come later.

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Well Well Well...

If the figures and statements are true!
Then the damages bill could be extensive. Mark my words he says if you don't co-operate then the it could be your expense bill on the tax accountants desk.

With a statement like, "C\an you afford the repayments? or would you like to hand in the keys?".

Best speak with your guarantor's. The original policy says so.

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Sounds like the same old stuff. I'm not from Wisconsin, but show me!

It seems like too many times someone has said they have tried to contact AI and they deny it far too often. That either makes the number of parties that have tried to contact them liers or the one source. Don't know for sure, but with those odds guess who I am going to believe. Too bad really, when you consider I used to try and be optomistic, but now I can just be a naysayer.

I think we have all suffered far too much. Pancakes anyone?

"Hello Amiga community, we have no idea what we're doing but it's not our fault!"

Please make it stop...... sigh.

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and we have selected the first 3rd party manufacturer that will build in high quantities

Ack's design farmed out? But no good with out OS4 of course.

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My last point concerns a recent post about another company making offers for Amiga. This is categorically false. A bona fide offer was never received. Amiga received a letter that asked for our financials

It would all be more believable if the facts were strait. DFX was interested in a buy-out and inquired about valuation. DFX never claimed to have made an offer. They said that they wished the asking price was based in reality so they might make an offer.

Jeez, well maybe Minimig has them "quaking in their boots" so they felt they had to come out with something quick.



Plaz

Bill, you sound desperate.

I would be too. Fighting a court case, no products, little income.

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In fact, Amiga’s consistent position has been that Amiga would assume all of the legitimate third party contracts and make sure that all legitimate outstanding amounts are paid.

Can I say "T-shirts and Vouchers" ?

I believe the vouchers are outstanding and that Hyperion are refusing to cash them. Doesn't that mean AI should repay them ?

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Amiga lost a deal worth more than 250,000 units because the development was not properly handled.

Bill, you make your bed and you sleep in it. If the dev people screwed up, you chose them. You agreed the contract. Take the responsibility. If not personally, then on behalf of AI.

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Amiga is making great strides and technical progress on our products and services, and with the partners and companies that Amiga has amassed not only in the cell phone space (...) Amiga is opening the doors to a long term strategy that the community can support, respect and be proud of.

Cell phones ? Would this have anything to do with the vision and values of the people who bought the original Amigas (classic) ? I don't think so. Sure, I think AmigaOS would be good for a phone but that is not why the community is here IMHO.

Even if you buy into all this, you are not asking for "2 more weeks", it's 1 more year (to resolve the court case). No one is going to give you a whole year unless you have a stunning vision and concrete progress. You are not offering either.

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maybe Bill feel that Hyperion can win, and start this old dances called "we are community. please support my femaly by some donayions and buying t-shirts and cups with boing-balls" ;) I think if Bill in some kind of panic, it's good. Maybe Hyperion will won .. who knows of course..

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Amiga Inc is a puffer fish. They keep inflating themselves up to make themselves look much bigger than they really are, like they did with that stadium in Kent. This new letter is just one more example of it.

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Bunch of party poopers!

Well it appears that AInc is aware of our bitching at least.

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Seems to me like McEwen thinks: "If I say that Hyperion is at fault for the current situation enough times, it will become true". It's still Amiga who is holding up
OS 4.0... D'oh...

There are talks of millions of dollars for development of OS4? What? In the court docs they are willing to pay $25,000 for the complete OS. Actions speak louder
than words.

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Now we want to see of the facts!!! Thanks

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I'm not ususally taking part on the forums. Sorry to be a bit harsh then.

The time for backing the empty promisess of AI has already passed. Several times.
Only the form of the BM's annoucements is still changing - not too much though: There are still big words backed by hot air
E.g, his words from several years back sound, like he could move the whole galaxy himself alone. He wouldn't need any partner, which he blames now for the failure ?!

Deliver.
Otherwise you are just a cheap poser.

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There are talks of millions of dollars for development of OS4? What? In the court docs they are willing to pay $25,000 for the complete OS. Actions speak louder

So, if Hyperion were to cave in (hyperthetically) and say ask for a compromise payout of say $3.5m - would they get it??



Jason

Bill,

I'm one of the thousands of old Amiga users waiting in the wings hoping to one day return to a viable Amiga platform. And, I'd just love to see Ainc. succeed, and the naysayers eat their words.

I, for one, couldn't care less about the bad attitudes and disbelief that runs so rampant in the Amiga community right now. I enjoy computers, not soap operas and don't give a darn how the disenfranchised "feel". All this bullsh*t and negativity is blown way out of proportion by some posters who seem to have nothing better to do than retread their grievances ad-nauseum for hours upon hours. Same BS, different thread. And yet they criticise you for not making productive use of your time for the betterment of the Amiga community!!!

If you brought new hardware to market tomorrow, I'd buy atleast 2 machines just to support the re-emergence of platform. And I wouldn't give a second's thought to the negative words swirling on the forums. Then, I would spread the word to 10 others I know that gave up on amiga 15 years ago. And so would the naysayer contingent, I'd wager.

Bottom line, once the Amiga has a future again, no one will care about the past, especially newcomers buying the system without all this historical baggage.

They'll think me naive (again) for hoping and believing Ainc. can pull it off against the odds... whatever, I don't care. I know that a dramatically improved financial picture fundamentally changes the equation. And that the dot com bust era was a very difficult time to survive, and may have forced actions or business decisions that you wouldn't normally make. And that a huge legal dispute years in the making can twist and distort your technology roadmap, making it difficult for onlookers to discern. And today is a much better business climate and circumstance for the Amiga to succeed. I get that, and I get that it could really be different this time, if legal matters can resolve quickly. And I, for one, am pulling hard for Ainc. to succeed !!

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I'm quite surprised no-one's asked the obvious question here: what's *really* going on? Looking at the court docs, it's clear that most, if not all of Amiga Inc's statements have been caused by internal pressures between them and their partners (as opposed to most press releases, which deal with things that impact customers directly, such as new products, recalls, etc). So, what's going on behind the scenes right now? I'd be willing to bet that this "can't we all just get along" message is directly influenced by the court case. I'm going to be paying close attention to the forums for the next couple of weeks, I suspect that interesting news are just around the corner.

[speculation]
Since Amiga Inc is trying very hard to paint Hyperion as the bad guys here, I suspect that the judge twisted some arms and talked the lawyers into an out of court settlement that doesn't include completely taking Hyperion out of the picture. Here's why I believe this. First, why issue a statement blaming Hyperion? if Amiga Inc were confident of a victory, they'd just let the legal system take its course - issue a statement after it's all over. On the other hand, if their lawers thought they were about to lose the OS4 trademarks, mentioning their "long term strategy" would be pointless ("here's what you ungrateful sods could have had"), so that doesn't sound right either. Add to this the fact that the original contracts sucked, both sides are now just piling on documentation that adds very little extra info, the judge probably has other cases to deal with, and he's already suggested a settlement, and I can see his honor calling both legal teams to his chambers and reading them the riot act. In this context, the open letter makes a lot of sense - the lawsuit is about to end, and neither side has total victory. The ball is back in our court, and we are the ones who decide who wins (by voting with our wallets). Bill McEwen just fired the first salvo in the battle for public opinion.
[/speculation]

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