Hyperion bankrupt?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I guess their plans for a big payout from c64man didn't pan out?  :roflmao::roflmao:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Here come the lawyers!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is it confirmed that it's OUR Hyperion?

I wondered about that, too.  Not much coming up on the google...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Funny how that worked out for you.

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[Oldsmobile_Mike]

a basic Amiga without all of those co-processors...

They were basically gouging their Amiga customers.  They upgraded the computers from an Agnus chip to Fat Agnes, updated the operating system and charged more for all those updates and it alienated customers because it put customers on a faster pace to buy...

Think about this: You just bought an Amiga, it was an expense and six months later, Commodore upgrades it.  You're catering to a select few and alienating everyone else.

Man, what is this crazy-talk?  The problem with the Amiga was that Commodore didn't upgrade it enough!  Upper management was too busy sucking the coffers dry on private jets, and not spending enough on R&D or engineering.  The Amiga was revolutionary for it's time *because of the custom chips*.   To remove those you'd take away everything that made it unique, and make something wholly incompatible, since the system relied on those chips, in any case.  And everything after that was a stop-gap, they had no more revolutions.  Even AGA came out three years too late, by 1992 it's capabilities were already surpassed by every games machine and computer on the market.

Would you prefer they'd never upgraded?  Never released any new products?  Just sat stagnant with the original designs from 1985?  They'd have never made into the '90s, let alone still be interesting to hobbyists today.

Anyhow, TL;DR, completely irrelevant to the discussion about Hyperion.  Bye!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Most peeps (that like it) say to use a hefty Intel i7...
I have an 8GB i5 that I want to try it on.... just gotta get it on order! I was just gonna post AmigaKit's link to the product but they are now out of stock! I HATE ME sometimes!

@AmigaKit... please don't say that you won't get anymore!

Dang!  I just put that in my shopping cart on their site last night, too, and now I see it's gone.  

You know, there's a funny correlation to goth clubs here in the Washington, DC, area, in all this.  Everybody always attends the first night of a new club, and the last night.  And then they say "Man, this club is so great, why is it closing?"  Well maybe if people had attended any of the other nights, it would've made enough money to stay open.

Amiga is like that.  Maybe if we'd ordered our copies of 4.1 FE Classic a month ago, Hyperion would've had enough money to stay afloat.  *sigh*

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Please pre order now from us and we will get more next week.  Thanks.

Could you post a link for Classic?  It's not coming up on the search anymore.  Just the other versions:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

+1!  Don't know when I'll have time to play with it, but it'll be a good conversation piece, right?  LOL  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@OM....

Awwww

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I have been highly critical of Hyperion due to many of their decisions over the last 10+ years, but I agree that lowering the price for AmigaOS4.1FE and making it available for people to run via WinUAE emulation is one of the smartest things they have done

Maybe I missed the posts on this, but where did Hyperion actually provide any help on this at all?  From what I've seen they've been actively opposed to it (like that poor guy with his D-UAE thing recently).  I thought it was all the author (authors?) of WinUAE who did all the work.

Not trying to start a flame-war, just curious!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

why would you guys hijack one of the most important threads in a while with talk about your  modded ricers? lolol

I was about to chime in and tell these guys to get real cars, but I like 'em, so let it slide.  :laughing:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

RadioShack just declared bankruptcy and is attempting to restructure (whether they'll be successful remains to be seen)

Radio Shack is closing thousands of stores.  The ones near me have already closed.  The ones that are remaining open are being bought by Sprint, although they're going to brand them Sprint-Radio Shack.  That's the most recent I've heard.  Sucks, but they haven't sold anything of interest to me there in years.  Just would drop in for the occasional cable if I needed it "right away" for a job.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'm just having a difficult time accepting the idea that Ben Hermans was one day going to work, whistling some peppy song because everything is going his way. He goes to the office, say hello to his coworkers and recieve the good news that AOS 4FE is selling well. And then he sees a letter at his desk, he opens it and see that the court of Belgium has for no reason at all decleared Hyperion bankrupt.
"There must be some mistake. Why haven't I heard of this matter before? We are paying our bills and our taxes and even making some money". He calls the court and the judge in question tells him:
"Oh, some guy sent us a letter the other day claiming he hasn't been paid and that you have no money to pay him. Because we are the court of Belgium, runned by third rate burocratic saps we of course believed him on the spot and without making any kind of investigation of the state of the company we declared it bankrupt. Because that's what we do. Are you now telling me he was lying? But ... he seemed so honest! I ... Oops, I did it again. File a complaint and maybe, just maybe, we will be nice enough to do our job and fix this. Unless we are out for lunch. Good bye."
Ben Hermans hang up the phone, he stands quiet for some very long seconds shaking, and then shouts "DAMN THIS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY AND IT'S LOUSY JURIDICAL SYSTEM!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!"

Just quoting your post because it is awesome.  And also Exactly How The Legal System Works In My Country, in my experience.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Ah, but which bit is which?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Frankly, were it possible, I'd like to see the moon fall on Ben.

That's a lot of animosity there!  Geeze you guys, it's only a computer operating system, after all!  :lol: