Is Amiga (the company) dead?

[Lando]

nasty wrote:

Work's now! Amiga Inc are still much very alive but just not very active. What there doing is anyones guess!

Well, they have some exciting new 'sliding block picture puzzle' games coming out soon, according to the website, which will no doubt push back the boundaries of digital entertainment as we know it.

[Lando]

Someone with a couple of $ should buy them out and put them out of their misery

A couple of $?  Are you mad?  I know prices for Amiga stuff on eBay are expensive, but they're not worth more than 50p at the most, surely.   :-)

[Lando]

snowman040 wrote:
OMG who the :madashell: is KMOS now ? :-( South American soap operas are simple comparing to this :-o

So I guess if there >WAS< some company X with milions of $ and willing to buy Amiga name (from whoever), site (from whoever2), patents and IP from Gateway, OS4 from Hyperion, solve mess with Genesi (omg?) ..... it would be years of lawyer time and millions of $ wasted on papers instead R&D

The patents aren't really needed to produce a new Amiga computer and/or OS - they mostly relate to 80's technology that serve no useful purpose in the 21st century.

The 'OS4 from Hyperion' bit is probably the easiest - if/when OS4 'final' is released, it's just a single $20k payment to get it back.  And if it never gets released, Hyperion only have the rights to 4.0x, so the new owner can just release their own new official version of AmigaOS as 4.1 (or 5.0) and bypass Hyperion altogether.

As for the problems with Genesi, they just need to port AmigaDE to the Pegasos as they were ordered to by the Court some years ago.  Since AmigaDE is basically Tao's product with Amiga branding, all this would require is a payment to Tao for them to do the port, and giving Genesi the right to use the Amiga brand name with their products.  Job done.