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Offline goldfishTopic starter

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2015, 09:17:28 PM »
Yes I was on about Amiga.com NOT Amiga.org Amiga.org has always been a good site with great content and advise
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2015, 09:47:45 PM »
The last time http://www.amiga.com looked professional was July 2001 as I remember the spinning boing ball animating in the top left corner looked cool:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010712210152/http://www.amiga.com/

They went through a phase of using having an ugly video camera design as if they were a video editing company! Now their Blackberry product page has no products! What a farce! They need to sell the website to A-EON and leave the market! They seem to be a scam company wanting to destroy the memory of the Amiga. Their Christmas Card maker was the only thing they ever did of semi-worth and that really is the joke of it all.
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2015, 10:18:16 PM »
Sadly, this will probably not end until Bill is in his grave.
I generally wish no one ill, but...
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Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"
 

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2015, 10:34:37 PM »
What has Bill McEwan to gain by perpetuating this nonsense? He lost his financial backer Pentti Kouri so how has this train wreck continued for so long? It really beggars belief!
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2015, 10:37:05 PM »
@BozzerBigD

it occasionally brings in money. his latest scam -- with 'amiga games, inc.' and 'WRIT media group' -- brought him thousands. and every now and again some folks approach him to purchase the marks outright. one of these days i'm sure he'll sell. we can only hope to someone worthy.

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2015, 10:39:05 PM »
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The last time http://www.amiga.com looked professional was July 2001 as I remember the spinning boing ball animating in the top left corner looked cool:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010712210152/http://www.amiga.com/


Man, homepages used to look a lot better when they had to focus on content and easy to understand design with minimal graphics. Today most homepages just sucks.
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2015, 10:02:27 AM »
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I'm not complaining I was just asking why Amiga.com has been aloud to mention Amiga on its site when all they do is take money for licenses.


Don't know if it's that loud but more of a silent death. ;-)
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2015, 01:11:15 PM »
This page gives nice PHP warnings: http://amiga.com/news/

There were about to release some oldschool PC games to Blackberry/mobile too. The author of Ax86 was supposed to licence his ARM x86 emulation CPU core.

Unsurprisingly, nothing came out of it either.
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2015, 02:35:30 PM »
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@BozzerBigD

it occasionally brings in money. his latest scam -- with 'amiga games, inc.' and 'WRIT media group' -- brought him thousands. and every now and again some folks approach him to purchase the marks outright. one of these days i'm sure he'll sell. we can only hope to someone worthy.

-- eliyahu


I'd suggest suggest A-eon, but the convoluted agreement between Hyperion and Amiga Inc. limits the utility in owning Amiga Inc's property rights for Trevor.
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"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2015, 07:55:35 PM »
Tell me again why we arent all writing (spamming) Bill with how he's continuously oildrilling our belolved one for resources, trying to get a few, lousy bucks out of an old name...

Also, why arent we kickstarting buying amiga.com back? Then kickstarting a hit on Bill? Seriously, i would chip in quite a lot...:-)
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2015, 08:53:48 PM »
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Tell me again why we arent all writing (spamming) Bill with how he's continuously oildrilling our belolved one for resources, trying to get a few, lousy bucks out of an old name...

Also, why arent we kickstarting buying amiga.com back? Then kickstarting a hit on Bill? Seriously, i would chip in quite a lot...:-)


Uh, maybe because its not a good idea?
Bill sets the price for his asset.
And I doubt that even though the real world value is low, that his price would be anything but ridiculously high.

And do you want to enrich this guy?

Further, spamming is of limited utility.
Its more likely to just harden his resolve rather than make him give up.
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"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"
 

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2015, 08:57:32 PM »
Lol, how old is McBill now anyway? may not have long to wait.
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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2015, 09:27:14 PM »
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Lol, how old is McBill now anyway? may not have long to wait.

Good question.
I cannot find much info on Bill on the web, outside of his days with Gateway and the early actions of his two Amiga Inc. entities.
No Facebook, Twitter, or other social media listing, and no web page outside of Amiga Inc.

You can find much more on the average Joe via a Goggle search than you can on Bill.
Its weird.

Amiga Inc. reminds me of Merlancia Industries.

So, anyone care to explain to me why it wouldn't have been better to have bPlan/Genesi in control of the Amiga name?
« Last Edit: August 22, 2015, 09:29:25 PM by Iggy »
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"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"
 

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #27 on: August 22, 2015, 09:40:34 PM »
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Good question.
I cannot find much info on Bill on the web, outside of his days with Gateway and the early actions of his two Amiga Inc. entities.
No Facebook, Twitter, or other social media listing, and no web page outside of Amiga Inc.

You can find much more on the average Joe via a Goggle search than you can on Bill.
Its weird.

Amiga Inc. reminds me of Merlancia Industries.

So, anyone care to explain to me why it wouldn't have been better to have bPlan/Genesi in control of the Amiga name?



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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2015, 09:59:31 PM »
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OK, is that OUR Bill?
I don't have a Linkedin profile, so I can not check that our.
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"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"
 

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Re: Amiga.com
« Reply #29 from previous page: September 10, 2015, 04:15:13 PM »
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OK, is that OUR Bill?
I don't have a Linkedin profile, so I can not check that our.


Yes, but I'd be real careful about wanting to claim him as "ours".

This is just the last page, but basically after everyone lost their money on the stock, they are now trying to get those same people to also pay for development of the product MEANT to be paid for by the income generated BY the company.

Source

Note prior page posts referring to FBI and Federal indictments of a key individual formerly involved in this company...

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