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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: Indoro on December 25, 2002, 12:30:51 PM
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For anyone attempting to access www.merlancia.com: Merlancia.com will be down for a few days while we consolidate our server systems. Please use merlanciausa.com in the meanwhile. We apologise in advance for any inconvienence.
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I don't understand Merlancia moves.
I hope to see some products from Merlancia, i like these guys.
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Well, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Merlancia moves"? If you are referring to why we are working on our servers now, it's an easy answer. We are trying to consolidate our websites, merlancia.com anbd merlanciausa.com so that any old material is gone by the end of January. We are working on updates to the new Merlancia Industries site and products sections, as well as other sections that will be going live in the next few weeks.
We are hoping to have some exciting news for you all by the new year, or the second week of January at the latest.
We are just trying to keep everyone informed of what is going on, unlike other companies, in case someone tries to go to www.merlancia.com and gets a server error. We do not want people to assume that getting a server error means we have vanished. We are working on these servers right now, as I type this. in fact, many of the changes have already been made that were important. All of our machines are on T3 connections now, and our old equipment is no longer in use (it has been replaced by new equipment), which means faster connection times and data transfers for everyone.
Hope this helps to explain what is going on. Have a happy holidays and (pre-emptively) a Happy New Year .
//R//
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Thx for the infos! Interesting.
Have you the intention to produce hardware in January?
Ps: i like to see merlancia site updated because it is cool :-)
thx, Happy Holydays to you
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I'm glad you like the site design. Our product information sections will be changing over the next few weeks. Any news on Merlancia products will be announced when we have product ready to show, and product ready to ship. We do not hold to the Amiga, Inc. philosophy of "announce and sell, then try to design". This is why we have never taken even one thin disme for any of our product designs.
We will only begin to take orders when we have product to ship, and we will make no further product announcements until we have something new to show. We've been quiet over the last few months, but we've been busy as well.
We are also working on upgrades to our services, like AmigaZone. Just remember, when all seems to be darkest, look for a ray of starlight. There are things moving behind the shadows. ;)
TTFN & Cheers,
//RC//
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First the site design is not cool, its awful.
there are dead links everywhere. A professional would have completed the site in advance of announcing it, not after, and we all know it won't be completed, not ever...the excuses and timeframes are a big who cares....you have never had a professional site, and you've had years.
Secondly, it is full of inaccurate information.. You are not in the business of designing or producing anything, you are a reseller, at best....
Don't bother criticisizing Amiga, Inc, just about anyone else in the world is more qualified to do that than you.
Will this merlancia hoax never end? Who is the 'royal we'...you and your mom?
Shut up already, you've been thoroughly debunked on moo-bunny and on this site, this is old and tired. Grow up little kid.
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Mark, I will divide this into small sections so you can understand the words. I don't want to overload your neural structure with anything too complex:
1. In regards to Merlancia:
You have no clue what we are "in the business" of doing, nor what sources of income we have other than the currently pitiful unprofitable Amiga 68k market.
2. In regards to "we", "we" referres to in this case:
Ryan E A Czerwinski
Rizwan Rasheeed
Ryan Towe
Harv Laser
Brandon Emerson
all of which hae been working on the Merlancia website this week.
3. In regards to comments about Amiga Inc:
No, we as one of thier investors, and one of many companies that they royally swindled are more than qualified to complain about the state of affairs at the moment with Amiga, Inc. We are more qualified than anyone else here. How much money did you give them?
4. In regards to yoiur reference to 'MooBunny'
I have been "royally" defamed, and libeled on "Moobunny", a site famous for trolls, and dimwitted idiots that will buy into any lead story posted there. Considering how many sites have banned your hero Mr Woods from even postoing, and that his website is now in a constant state of flux because no-one want sot host it after they find out what is on it, I would expect a littlle better out of you. Then again, what can I expect from a guy that uses a cartoon yellow dragon as an avathar. That speaks volumes about you, sir.
5. In regards to merlancia.com:
There is no such thing as a "complete" website. All websites are in a constant state of metamorphosis, the gradual development of a piece of art. No piece of artwork is ever complete, only abandoned.
6. (The important one)
In regards to you:
Until you educate yourself a wee bit more, and figure out what planet you are on I suggest you watch what tone you take towards myself. Read the original post again..it didn't mention those who don't care about Merlancia or Merlancia products. It said specificly "for anyone attempting to access merlancia.com". If you are not reading our website, and you are not a client of ours, then this thread is not directed at you, and I have no reason to waste any more time on you.
Don't buy our products when they ship. Please, save us the effort of dealing with you.
Regards,
//RC//
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Mark, I will divide this into small sections so you can understand the words. I don't want to overload your neural structure with anything too complex:
1. In regards to Merlancia:
You have no clue what we are "in the business" of doing, nor what sources of income we have other than the currently pitiful unprofitable Amiga 68k market.
2. In regards to "we", "we" referres to in this case:
Ryan E A Czerwinski
Rizwan Rasheeed
Ryan Towe
Harv Laser
Brandon Emerson
all of which hae been working on the Merlancia website this week.
3. In regards to comments about Amiga Inc:
No, we as one of thier investors, and one of many companies that they royally swindled are more than qualified to complain about the state of affairs at the moment with Amiga, Inc. We are more qualified than anyone else here. How much money did you give them?
4. In regards to yoiur reference to 'MooBunny'
I have been "royally" defamed, and libeled on "Moobunny", a site famous for trolls, and dimwitted idiots that will buy into any lead story posted there. Considering how many sites have banned your hero Mr Woods from even postoing, and that his website is now in a constant state of flux because no-one want sot host it after they find out what is on it, I would expect a littlle better out of you. Then again, what can I expect from a guy that uses a cartoon yellow dragon as an avathar. That speaks volumes about you, sir.
5. In regards to merlancia.com:
There is no such thing as a "complete" website. All websites are in a constant state of metamorphosis, the gradual development of a piece of art. No piece of artwork is ever complete, only abandoned.
6. (The important one)
In regards to you:
Until you educate yourself a wee bit more, and figure out what planet you are on I suggest you watch what tone you take towards myself. Read the original post again..it didn't mention those who don't care about Merlancia or Merlancia products. It said specificly "for anyone attempting to access merlancia.com". If you are not reading our website, and you are not a client of ours, then this thread is not directed at you, and I have no reason to waste any more time on you.
Don't buy our products when they ship. Please, save us the effort of dealing with you.
Regards,
//RC//
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Dear "Marktime"..
Please click here for an important message that will answer all yourconcerns.. (http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kinho/youare.swf)
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@Indoro
There is no need of slagging the messenger !
MooBunny is probraly the only forum that is really open, and most of
the sites regulars don't just have a critic/cynic mind but they actually
have a mind of their own, and some real knowledge.
Something that far to often gets replaced with blind believe on other
pages (from all sides).
No I don't think that stalker is news, but I allready had a hard time taking
your company serious before, and the only thing you could do is making
atleast some of your promises true.
I find it simple hillarious that some people slag you of, only to praise AInc
in th next post, when all you have done sofar is stealing peoples time
instead of money.
If you really got some money in AInc, and don't like the way they are
doing biusness, may I advice you to take whatever needed (legal)
action to get it back ? If this would lead to the death of AInc, it would
atleast bring an end to a 3 year long nightmare :-P
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I just checked the site and I don't see what should be wrong with it. So what if there are a few broken links? It is on the proces of updating, rigth? I don't know Merlancia but it seems I should keep checking it a lot. I saw some nice products there.
I wish you all the best.
Coder
hmmm that pic of Kramer reminded me of the epi with the cuban cigars. Wich leads me to the fact that I still have to arrange a few for next week. :-)
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Hmmm. They do actually list specs with the AmigaMMC now, showing it to be available in Feburary 2003. That's encouraging.
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@Indoro
First an utterly moronic question: Will it run OS4?
Seconldly: Got any plans for a dual G4 Amiga?
Now if the answer is yes to all of the above asked questions, then you might have got yourselfe an customer. :-)
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There is no need of slagging the messenger !
MooBunny is probraly the only forum that is really open, and most of
the sites regulars don't just have a critic/cynic mind but they actually
have a mind of their own, and some real knowledge.
Something that far to often gets replaced with blind believe on other
pages (from all sides).
Yes, it is open, but it is also the site where, from past reading, almost every post is a flame war haunted by trolls. Unfortunately most Amiga "News" sites have become this these days.
No I don't think that stalker is news, but I allready had a hard time taking
your company serious before, and the only thing you could do is making
atleast some of your promises true.
I find it simple hillarious that some people slag you of, only to praise AInc
in th next post, when all you have done sofar is stealing peoples time
instead of money.
Well, they stole time from everyone, and money from some. Over 1000 poop people sent in that $50 and got absolutely nothing in return.
In contrast, we have never, I repeat, *never* taken money for any of these products that we have announced, even when offered. Yes, everything is late, behind schedule by vast months of time. The major concern over the past year has been what to run on PPC hardware. You have to admit, that with out an OS to run, it would be quite worthless to all of you.
We won't ship an Amiga related product running Linux. We will sell Linux PPC systems, yes, but that hasn't been an interest in the Amiga community.
If you really got some money in AInc, and don't like the way they are
doing biusness, may I advice you to take whatever needed (legal)
action to get it back ? If this would lead to the death of AInc, it would
atleast bring an end to a 3 year long nightmare
We are. And, it's not just about an invesmen gone sourt, it's about other things too. Some of their employees are doing the same, as well as other former business partners and investors. They have made a lot of promices to everyone, taken money for product that doesn't work, and taken money for product that doesn't exist.
People complain about Phase5 and Antigravity. Compare to Amiga, Inc, they are angels with little golden halos.
//R//
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I found Harv's response the more entertaining one, however, lets do the point by point thing, using your outline.
1 (What I know about Merlancia):
What I know is all I need to know, you have made promises for a long time, and never delivered anything, except you sell some 68k market products and are a frequent subject of complaint by your customers. You say thats about to change, well good, when it changes, then it has changed. Until then, things are the same.
2 (Who is Merlancia)
That is more people than just you and your mom. Good..but it does not indicate a company that has a team of engineers working on new products, or even one engineer working on a new product.
3 (Comments on Amiga, Inc.)
Unlike some people who never admit when they are wrong, I have to concede this point. Everyone is equally qualified to criticize Amiga, Inc.
4 (Moobunny)
Moobunny did a great service to the Amiga community. You see, you were not defamed or slandered. As a lover of words, you should realize those words have specific meaning and imply dishonesty. Whether or not some tiny point could be criticized, I do not know, but the main thrust of the site was simply to show actual photographs of your operations. The word debunked was the accurate word to use, as you were divested of your pretentiousness.
5 (merlancia.com)
I was actually referring to merlanciausa.com, but either way you are wrong. It is wonderful to classify a web site as a work of art, but nevertheless a website is more than just form, it also has function.
Many large websites have some small glitches...but rarely does a professionally built site constantly assault its readership with dead ends and false navigation paths. It is a sign of an unprofessional site, and you've been in this habit for a long time. As a person who has worked on a moderately successful 2 mil+ e-commerce site, I know that this level of professionalism is unacceptable in the real world. Amiga, Inc. is no better. If some of the people in here think otherwise, goody for them, I think they do you a disservice by giving you false expectations.. the non-zealots will be negatively impressed by all the dead links, presumably you want someone to buy into your site.
6 (Who is your client)
Read back to point two, you confirm you are in the 68k market, a market you describe as being 'pitiful'.
Its always a bad sign when a person derides their own main source of business. You wish to call someone an idiot, fine, but the biggest people you consider to be idiots are your own customers for not being smart enough to abandon 68k already.
I don't think there is any danger I will be your customer. But I am a community member here at Amiga.org, and I will warn other community members that this merlancia hoax as been going on for years, and so far, the main thing you have done is sell a few classic Amiga products at high prices with frequent complaints by your own customers about your responsiveness.
I hope all amiga.org members will check out the moobunny articles and decide for themselves.
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I just checked the site and I don't see what should be wrong with it. So what if there are a few broken links? It is on the proces of updating, rigth? I don't know Merlancia but it seems I should keep checking it a lot. I saw some nice products there. I just checked the site and I don't see what should be wrong with it. So what if there are a few broken links? It is on the proces of updating, rigth? I don't know Merlancia but it seems I should keep checking it a lot. I saw some nice products there.
We are updating the products section this week. Some fo the rest of the site will start going online as well.
if you note, there are no trully "broken" links. There are no 404 errors anyway. There are a lot of directories that are forbidden at this time, because we are not yet ready to reveal their contents. There is a huge difference between a broken link, and a link to a protected directory. Some people do have access to these directories, on a different site with a login prompt. ;)
Coder
hmmm that pic of Kramer reminded me of the epi with the cuban cigars. Wich leads me to the fact that I still have to arrange a few for next week.
Kramer is a symbol of my philosophy. a somewhat misunderstood, odd individual that was very sharp and intelligent. That's a scn of the Cigar Afficianado issue with Michael Richards, in case you were wondering. (I am an avid cigar smoker myself.)
TTFN,
//R//
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First an utterly moronic question: Will it run OS4?
That is a question that remains to be answered. OS4 is a hypothetical product at the moment, even for the AmigaOne/MAI systems. Until it is finished, who knows what it will run on.
Seconldly: Got any plans for a dual G4 Amiga?
Yes. Both single and dual 74xx series systems are planned, as well as systems with different IBM components.
//R//
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Yes. Both single and dual 74xx series systems are planned, as well as systems with different IBM components.
Lets make this simple.
If it sounds cool, he has 'plans' to deliver it.
Everything that is broken in public has a fix in private.
Every promise broken is someone elses fault.
This is the same old/same old that we've heard for years. When in doubt, promise more.
The purpose of this news article is to funnel more people into his site, not as a service for his existing site readership, as he suggests! That suggestion is flat out wrong on the fact of it! Guess what, if he only wanted to talk to his own site readership, all 4 of those people, he could have just made the announcement on his own site...imagine about hitting your target market!
No, he posted at amiga.org because his target was amiga.org members...DUH!
All I'm saying is why when you all go over there, just do so with a word of caution, he does this over and over again...its all nonsense.
He puts release dates in there, he's done that before, it means absolutely nothing.
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That is a question that remains to be answered. OS4 is a hypothetical product at the moment, even for the AmigaOne/MAI systems. Until it is finished, who knows what it will run on.
Yes. But when OS4 comes out, you MUST support it. for you interest, and for amiga future.
I'm adding merlancia link to my website :-)
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BTW, I have no doubt and I am not suggesting that Ryan will be able to resell the Teron boards available from many other sources. And those same cpu modules that are sold many other places, he may carry them as well.
However, I always suggest you rate a re-seller by their ability to serve and support their customers...not by their prediliction for grandoise announcements.
Personally, I like terrasoft as being the most reliable and most reasonable for purchasing a Teron Board.
They don't even claim to be in the amiga market, but a teron board is a teron board.
If I did wish to guarantee that os 4 compatibility, which I agree is so speculative right now, but then I'd have to buy an A/One, and would glady to do so from a more well established and 'mature' (did ya get the double meaning)....site like compuquick or software hut.
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Hi..
First off all I like your site design, but have a VERY hard time believing that any of you PPC prouicts actually exist (even in prototype form), I wil offcourse gladly take these words back when/if you show us some cool stuff :-)
That is a question that remains to be answered. OS4 is a hypothetical product at the moment, even for the AmigaOne/MAI systems. Until it is finished, who knows what it will run on.
Well, OS4 is currently beeing betatested, so things look quite bright regarding a release date.
You probably know the licensing details better than I do, but as OS4 is getting close maybe you should get in contact with Hyperion and provide them with some of your hardware and documantation?
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Disgusting, First Eyetechs main man insults and attacks people now someone from Merlancia is insulting people,
What the hell is wrong with Amiga companies, do you want peoples custom?
No wonder the Amiga is dead and considered a joke in the real world when the companies have nothing better to do than come on forums attacking people and banging the bishop.
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well, now, his prototypical products are the pegasos and/or the teron CX/PX, etc...as he is just a reseller. So I can believe he has prototypes in that regard, since the pegasos is a real product.
He announced sometime ago that he has a partnership with bPlan.
the term partnership is a fast and loose term that could mean anything, but the point is, the products he intends to resell are on the market, so I don't see why he won't be reselling them as well as the 68k stuff. The other american resellers, compuquick, softhut, are doing the same.
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Disgusting, First Eyetechs main man insults and attacks people now someone from Merlancia is insulting people,
And let's not forget the longest standing insulter in the Amiga community, Ralph Schmidt. He use to talk to people like that regularly on the Compuserve forums. The very reason I have no interest in MorphOS today.
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No, we will not simply be selling Pegasos boards. We have additional design work, both electronic and industrial that is going into what we are producing. And no, I don't mean 'selling'.
We aren't just taking off the shelf parts and slapping them together.
M68k based Amiga sales are pitiful, as a source of income anyway. The M68k community is not pitiful, save mayhaps for a select few individuals. It is the sales of 68k Amiga hardware and software that are pitiful.
For now, MorphOS is what we will be working with. If and when AmigaOS 4 is ready, we will work with it. Linux is an option for those that want is, as may be BeOS.
When the people see, touch and feel these products, they will recognise that they are immediately "Amiga". Something creative, different, elegant and sexy.
//RC//
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Personally, I have decided to consider MorphOS, as sick as I am of waiting on Amiga, Inc....but only the very old 0.4Beta is available for download....
Has it become a commercial product? It's supposedly at 1.0, or 1.1. with 1.2 right on its heals, but how do you buy it???
Only bundled with a motherboard? If that is the case, they need to announce their huge change in direction and stop criticizing Amiga, Inc. for essentially having the exact same scheme with OS 4.
I know it supports classic Amiga, but I don't know how you buy it anymore, maybe someone can enlighten me, also do they support the Amiga One and the Boxer...again, if not, why not.....
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>Has it become a commercial product? It's
>supposedly at 1.0, or 1.1. with 1.2 right on its heals,
>but how do you buy it???
The current MorphOS ships with every Pegasos
board.
>I know it supports classic Amiga, but I don't know
>how you buy it anymore
According to Gerald Carda of bplan at the Aachen
show the MorphOS version for PowerUp hardware
(BlizzPPC/CybPPC) will "probably be for free".
MorphOS may also support Mac hardware in the
future.
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Less talk more action.
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pathetic. simply pathetic.
Both the site content (the layout is pretty neat, IMO) and the firm itself.
The difference between you and AInc is the latter having brought something to the community at least.
You deserve no credit until you deliver something *consistent* than a photoshopped walker.
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You seriously think that Amiga, Inc. has added to the community? Gad, are you lost! Amiga's done more to sabotage the Amiga hardware line than anyone possibly could. Look at Amiga, Inc. "behind the scenes".
And, in Bill's pockets! Look at Bill. Bill has lots of toys for his kids. Uh, oh! No wonder Bill didn't make a holiday entrance. Bill's buried under all those toys he bought with Amiga money. :) Is that like Monopoly money????? Too bad his employees didn't get some of that loot. :( What? Bill's "borrowing" money from investors and delivering nothing? And, what happened to Amiga's offices? Does everyone at Amiga work from home? Is that the equivalent of the home "front"?
:smack: :smack: :smack:
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yeah. i believe that.
They delivered AmigaSDK and gave to hyperion and Hack&Patch the possibility to upgrade AmigaOS.
Meanwhile, Merlancia talked, talked, talked and didn't anything. These are FACTS, not words.
Slap those fishes to yourself, please. :-D :-D :-D
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The only people that ever did anything for the Amiga after buying the company were Commodore's engineering department.
Unless someone can get some of these engineers together and give them a bag of cash, then the Amiga is lost forever, and computers in general will never evolve from the archaic idea that the proccessor should do all the work.
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Oh yes, the lovely SDK that no-one wanted. The SDK that didn't even include all the tools needed to develop for the still unfinished AmigaDE that no-one uses. The wonderful SDK that we have over 1000 sets of in storage that no-one wabts to buy because it is quite useless.
And OS3.9. Wonderful. The took forever to decide to do that, then said it was the end of "Amiga CLASSIC", waited a year, then announces OD4, and we're a year from there anbd how many release dates late?
And let's not forget the latest bomb, the $50 coupon and T-Shirt fiasco. God help us here...
You know, Amiga took hundreds of thousands of dollars fromt he Amiga community, and gave us notheing but lies abnd garbage for it all. In retrospect, we took, exactly...
ZERO
from ANYONEl and let's put that in a time frame...
EVER!
for any of the products that we announced that have yet to ship. We have had people willign to prepay in advance for multple units, and we turned down their money.
Sure, we are taking a long time to do anything, but your beloved Amiga Inc isn't doing you or anyone else any favours here. So who are more evil. The guys that have yet to make anything that are taking your cash, or the guys that are working their asses off that have yet to release anything, but haven't asked you for a bloody cent yet?
Answer me that...
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MUAHAHAHA!! I can't stop laughing.... :-D :-D :-D
What did you in the last three years? NOTHING. Apart from the fact you sold some plain old 68k stuff...that isn't "deliver something to the community"
I want something REAL up front, and now!
I'm tired of people like you who promise much and don't deliver anything. IMO what a bunch of exhibitionists you are!
Bill+Alan+Ben have something real to give us (AmigaOS4 and A1) and I think I'm more likely to give THEM the credit they need, not YOU.
Shut up and go back in your lab to solder the chips and the circuits we WANT, and do not waste my and your bandwidth with your hoaxes & hype until then, please. :-( :-(
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@Indoro
Oh yes, the lovely SDK that no-one wanted. The SDK that didn't even include all the tools needed to develop for the still unfinished AmigaDE that no-one uses. The wonderful SDK that we have over 1000 sets of in storage that no-one wabts to buy because it is quite useless.
First of all it seems like mis-management to buy 1300+ (?) SDK's and still having 1000 sets left.
I also don't agree that it's useless!
without updates and the stuff AMIGA HAS DEVELOPED for it, it might be close to useless, but all you have to do is to sign that SDA/NDA and download the new stuff.
I didn't like the coupon crap they did..
didn't buy a coupon from them myself..
I only buy complete and existing products, thats why I will get an AmigaOne with OS4, instead of anything from you guys.
Are you willing to take a bet on whats released first A1+OS4 or any of your upcoming PPC hardware+ anyOS?
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How about this for an answer,
What would you think about a kid, that makes most of his living selling talking key chains and stuffed pooh bear animal's on e-bay, going around claiming to be the CEO of an international engineering firm.
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p.s. when you sold that last copy of the SDK for what was it, 70 bucks on e-bay, did you list in its description that:
it is quite useless.
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I have never sold any Amiga items on eBay, nor any pooh bear keychains or whatnot as you have outlined. I have sold a few coins, currency and the occasional casino cheque on ebay, and I buy antiques, numismatic and phillatellic collectibles, lesney collectibles, cigar related materials, furnishings from the victorian to WW2 era, fountain pens, computing prototypes, and Middle-Earth related colleectibles over the past few years.
I don't sell items on eBay unless I have a good reason to. buying casine cheques or $2 bills bound into Caesar's Palace brand pads in vega$ and turning them around for a 500% profit is a way to recoup losses in Vega$. That's about the extent of my eBay sales.
The last item I bought on eBay was a sword made of high carbon spring steel.
What planet are you on again, or what parallel universe did you drop out of?
//R//
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Commodore made a big mistake. They had no merchandising skills.
Yes, give the engineers a bag of cash, and you still get nothing. Pay them 10 grand a month to sit on their arses and play their little games. Just don't expect them to produce haineything useful. Bow and scrape to their names because they are Amiga icons. They don't have to work anymore. They should be worshipped for all the things they did years ago. Maybe they used up all their engineering skills at that time and just can't cut it anymore. So, they just sit around and take the money. Wouldn't you like to get $10,000 a month for doing absolutely nothing? :crazy:
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> The only people that ever did anything for the Amiga after buying the company were Commodore's engineering department.
Well, I don't know if that's stictly true, but thanks for the mention of us. It's pretty clear that things haven't gone well since the end of Commodore. In some cases, there was genuine intent. I consulted for Amiga Technologies, who really did want to bring the Amiga back, at a time it would have been practical. Unfortunately, ESCOM was killing themselves just as we were trying to get things off the ground.
> Unless someone can get some of these engineers together and give them a bag of cash, then the Amiga is lost forever,
Well, I had hoped to do that when I worked for Merlancia. Unfortunately, I found the company run by a child, who's sadly a pathological liar, and his angry mother. They had no experience in engineering, there was nothing being done in engineering at Merlancia, despite all the pretty pictures and stories on the web site, and they had no money or real intention of building an engineering company. Which is a hard enough thing to do when there is money, impossible when no one's being paid.
I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation at Merlancia today, but I doubt very much it's any different. Sure, they can OEM the same motherboards any of us could, but that an engineering company does not make. These are not simply incompetents, they are criminals. Stay away from them and anything they do, if you value your hard-earned money.
> and computers in general will never evolve from the archaic idea that the proccessor should do all the work.
They pretty much did in the 1990s. The graphics chip in most computers today does 3D coordinate transforms (and other operations) dramatically faster than the CPU could do (on the order of 25x faster, last I checked, and it's been awhile). They use DMA for everything the Amiga did (and more; most graphics chips can access main memory directly), they autoconfig (some of the software still needs work), they have audio processing itself more powerful than a room full of Amiga 1200s, etc.
Could they do more? Sure. Will they? Not on the C= agenda, sure. Look up "Acutiator" on http://www.thule.no/haynie if you want to see what I was trying to do 8-9 years ago, in that regard. But really, it's not the hardware that's the problem, it hasn't been for some time.
You pal,
-Dave
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> Yes, give the engineers a bag of cash, and you still get nothing. Pay them 10 grand a month to sit on their arses and play their little games. Just don't expect them to produce haineything useful.
Well, Ryan, no, you don't get a new ground-up design in two months. That's how long it went before you stropped paying, and even at that, I had to fight with you to get paid. You never paid anyone else, period.
As a child without any engineering experience (did you even graduate High School?), I can't expect you to understand that it takes about a year, give or take, to move from idea to product, and that's with a properly funded engineering department.
When you claimed to have a $650,000 budget (on the Amiga, Inc. trip, that's what you told Bill), the project we had started seemed doable, if not necesarily wise. But hey, your company, your money, all I can do is advise. Obviously, were the truth known, none of us would have given you the time of day. But we're all honest folks -- we don't expect to be lied to, cheated, and decieved. Merlancia as you sold it to me was a total fraud. Still is. You know it, I know it. Now they all know it, or at least the few who still fall for your tall tales.
-Dave
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Hainey, Hainey, Hainey....I'm not Ryan. Do you always jump to conclusions or do you just "think" you know everything? Yeah! I guess that "think" is not a word that you associate with.
So,what did you produce in two months? News is that you were uncooperative. Very uncooperative! And, that you never delivered anything for the dough. Were you j...... o.. in front of theT.V?
P.S. It was more that two months. You also
have a short memory (in addition to other short "comings").
Why didn't you send those items that you sold on e-bay? Talk about being dishonest! You're a THIEF!
Still paying your "stoolie" (as in "stool") to get "information"? :pint: