@billchase
"Betatesting" of Amy'05 was already proclaimed in Autumn 2005 and they made a big fuss about it (as always).
Of course, they still haven't anything ready to send.
But "getting ready to send some" sounds as if they are arriving at a first milestone.
However, it's still a joke that large parts of the community (esp. at AW) still believe that the boards will be on sale in three months.
If everything works well (fixing existing hardware faults, porting, drivers, license), the Summer of 2007 sounds much more realistic to me.
I hope that some other project (ACK or some Italians) surfaces before. I wasn't to keen on buying anything from Troika from the start (partly had to do with their way of handling things and this whole anynomity-thing behind them).
It's also clear that a certain person involved in the project is a former dubious spammer from Moobunny who used the site for posting personal rants against bbrv.
It's a pity that a community member like Ian needs to deal with those kind of shady people.