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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Tension on February 10, 2010, 02:21:14 AM
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Website is still down.
Anybody heard any more info?
They were a shell for years anyway. Looks like someone turned off the life support.
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Website is still down.
Anybody heard any more info?
They were a shell for years anyway. Looks like someone turned off the life support.
I emailed the technical contact on the domain registration but I haven't heard anything back yet.
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I also emailed them a few days ago, no response yet.
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Good riddance to bad trash.
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Just a guess..but since this isn't a real company nobody is paying attention to their web status and or domain name. Give it a bit until someone realizes that its down and Snowman maker & Telenet force will be rockin again!!
Website is still down.
Anybody heard any more info?
They were a shell for years anyway. Looks like someone turned off the life support.
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Oh no! (The India Amiga site is down too.) We'll all be lost without Amiga Inc.
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Wow funny i cared more about watching the weather channel then i do about A-Inc being down. Just think they haven't done crap anyways for the last umpteen yrs and honestly i doubt any1 cares, misses or gives a crap about them. Hopefully they will get into something more suited for them like falling in the ocean and disappearing 4ever.
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Wow funny i cared more about watching the weather channel then i do about A-Inc being down. Just think they haven't done crap anyways for the last umpteen yrs and honestly i doubt any1 cares, misses or gives a crap about them. Hopefully they will get into something more suited for them like falling in the ocean and disappearing 4ever.
I actually care - in the sense that I'm happy that it looks like they've finally folded. If true, it's such a relief to finally have this albatross from around the necks of the Amiga community. Don't you feel the sense of lightness! ;-)
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The only reason they were still around was to finish the negotiations regarding the transfer of Amiga OS to Hyperion.
Now that the negotiations are over, I guess there is no reason for them to be around anymore.
As ral-clan said, goodbye and goodridance, now I can finally go and buy my first Amiga. I always felt that the Amiga Inc/Hyperion relation was kinda fragile, and that Amiga Inc could pull the plug anytime they wanted. Now that Hyperion has the green light and the right to use all the intellectual property, I guess it's safe to invest.
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The whole thing stinks.
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The only reason they were still around was to finish the negotiations regarding the transfer of Amiga OS to Hyperion.
Now that the negotiations are over, I guess there is no reason for them to be around anymore.
As ral-clan said, goodbye and goodridance, now I can finally go and buy my first Amiga. I always felt that the Amiga Inc/Hyperion relation was kinda fragile, and that Amiga Inc could pull the plug anytime they wanted. Now that Hyperion has the green light and the right to use all the intellectual property, I guess it's safe to invest.
You forget we never did find out what AI got out of that new agreement, we only saw what Hyperion got. I have a feeling that after Hyperion changed from VOF, shares got traded on a side deal with AI or McEwen. McEwen loves back room deals, that would fit nicely into his MO.
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Some did know that this company did'nt have a snowballs chance in hell to succed!. I did enjoy my amiga did cry when they went under but u must understand amiga is never coming back, sorry but it is the truth.
It is now 19 years since then went under! time to grasp reallity!.
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but how will we make virtual snowmen now?
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Oh no! (The India Amiga site is down too.) We'll all be lost without Amiga Inc.
The India site is back up.
http://www.amigadevindia.com/
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The India site is back up.
http://www.amigadevindia.com/
The domain is registered using Vince's home address:
Domain Name: AMIGADEVINDIA.COM
Created on: 26-Jun-06
Expires on: 26-Jun-12
Last Updated on: 24-Jun-08
Administrative Contact:
Pfeifer, Vince vince at amiga.com
Amiga Inc
15846 NE 67th Pl
Redmond, Washington 98052
United States
4255579600 Fax -- 425-557-0090
http://seattle.blockshopper.com/property/5422560610/15846_ne_67th_place
So it looks like they are still hardly in "business functioning mode".
The mail server for amiga.com does not currently exist, so they can be reported for inaccurate WHOIS info here:
http://wdprs.internic.net/
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The domain is registered using Vince's home address:
Domain Name: AMIGADEVINDIA.COM
Created on: 26-Jun-06
Expires on: 26-Jun-12
Last Updated on: 24-Jun-08
Administrative Contact:
Pfeifer, Vince vince at amiga.com
Amiga Inc
15846 NE 67th Pl
Redmond, Washington 98052
United States
4255579600 Fax -- 425-557-0090
http://seattle.blockshopper.com/property/5422560610/15846_ne_67th_place
So it looks like they are still hardly in "business functioning mode".
The mail server for amiga.com does not currently exist, so they can be reported for inaccurate WHOIS info here:
http://wdprs.internic.net/
Nice enough looking house.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=15846+NE+67th+Pl,+Redmond,+King,+Washington+98052&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=60.417788,135.263672&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Ff5R1wIdSHS4-A&split=0&hq=&hnear=15846+NE+67th+Pl,+Redmond,+King,+Washington+98052&ll=47.665662,-122.129334&spn=0.000798,0.002064&t=h&z=20
I wonder what he does for income?
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AI will be back to on schedule and rocken in 10 Yottabyte years.
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I wonder what he does for income?
VP Product Development at Amiga Inc...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vince-pfeifer/10/469/939
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VP Product Development at Amiga Inc...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vince-pfeifer/10/469/939
I would not be putting that on my resume, Amiga INC have NO products !
What he is saying there is he does NOTHING all day.
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At least the Amiga Shop is still open lol.
http://www.shopamiga.com/
How terribly embarrasing.
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At least the Amiga Shop is still open lol.
http://www.shopamiga.com/
How terribly embarrasing.
Snowman Maker or death! Even in the summer.
:)
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I would not be putting that on my resume, Amiga INC have NO products !
What about creepy Snowman Maker and that tip calculator thing?
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Website is still down.
Anybody heard any more info?
They were a shell for years anyway. Looks like someone turned off the life support.
They are busy in the gulf helping with the oil spill cleanup efforts. Bill McEwen and crew have teamed up with Kevin Costner.
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At least the Amiga Shop is still open lol.
http://www.shopamiga.com/
It actually isn't open. The domain has been hijacked by someone.
Read the text on the page
Here is a random selection of products that may interest you. Choose a category on the right to browse products. Choose a platform to localize the display to only products that will run on your chosen platform.For example choose the best Medifast Coupons from here to save you money
The only link on the page is the Medifast Coupon one that takes you to http://www.wvweightloss.com/
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The India site is back up.
http://www.amigadevindia.com/
what the crap is that horse feces?
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Some did know that this company did'nt have a snowballs chance in hell to succed!. I did enjoy my amiga did cry when they went under but u must understand amiga is never coming back, sorry but it is the truth.
It is now 19 years since then went under! time to grasp reallity!.
In a way you are right, it's not impossible but so difficult to come up with something as good as PS3/360 for games at just 2x the cost it will never happen.
However all people wanted was a nice machine not too expensive (price/performance) to run OS4 this decade. And Amiga Inc failed to do that miserably too. But then so has every other company supplying OS4 capable hardware today and Hyperion's refusal to transfer OS4 to PPC Mac hardware which is plentiful is also fail ;)
The only company illegally supplying Amiga related items is Cloanto, as Amiga Inc are seemingly dead how the hell is their agreement to exclusively supply KS roms/WB ADFs still valid and not illegal, rip-off prices for Amiga Forever not withstanding ;)
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Nice enough looking house.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=15846+NE+67th+Pl,+Redmond,+King,+Washington+98052&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=60.417788,135.263672&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Ff5R1wIdSHS4-A&split=0&hq=&hnear=15846+NE+67th+Pl,+Redmond,+King,+Washington+98052&ll=47.665662,-122.129334&spn=0.000798,0.002064&t=h&z=20
I wonder what he does for income?
That is crazy I used to live right near that place when I was a kid in 1985 and when I bought my A1000. I also had a couple of friends that live right down the street from this house......
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Nice enough looking house.
I wonder what he does for income?
Lives off his wife probably.
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VP Product Development at Amiga Inc...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vince-pfeifer/10/469/939
This Vince PFEIFER (http://www.facebook.com/vince.pfeifer)?
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This Vince PFEIFER (http://www.facebook.com/vince.pfeifer)?
Yes. You can even see him with a real life boing ball in his profile picture. No doubt one of the [strike]many[/strike] [strike]several[/strike] [strike]dozens of[/strike] three products developed by Amiga Inc during his 10 years there as head of product development.
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In a way you are right, it's not impossible but so difficult to come up with something as good as PS3/360 for games at just 2x the cost it will never happen.
However all people wanted was a nice machine not too expensive (price/performance) to run OS4 this decade. And Amiga Inc failed to do that miserably too. But then so has every other company supplying OS4 capable hardware today and Hyperion's refusal to transfer OS4 to PPC Mac hardware which is plentiful is also fail ;)
The only company illegally supplying Amiga related items is Cloanto, as Amiga Inc are seemingly dead how the hell is their agreement to exclusively supply KS roms/WB ADFs still valid and not illegal, rip-off prices for Amiga Forever not withstanding ;)
Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.
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They are busy in the gulf helping with the oil spill cleanup efforts. Bill McEwen and crew have teamed up with Kevin Costner.
"Did you hear Bill McEwen's helping out with the oil spill?"
"No?"
"Yeah, he's going to plug the gap with boing balls."
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This Vince PFEIFER (http://www.facebook.com/vince.pfeifer)?
Noooooo......Can't be.............Nooooooooooooo..................ha ha ha! VP of Chocolate Consumption..........Yes cruel but true.
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Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.
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Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.
Is that some new definition of "Alive" that I wasn't previously aware of. They have been doomed since they uttered the words Amiga Anywhere....No Cash = Milk / Killing the Sacred Cow
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Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.
The first version of AF came out in 97 or thereabouts - I remember seeing the review of it on CU Amiga. I think it would have been either Escom right before they went belly up or not very long after Gateway took over.
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Is that some new definition of "Alive" that I wasn't previously aware of. They have been doomed since they uttered the words Amiga Anywhere....No Cash = Milk / Killing the Sacred Cow
AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I
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AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I
Yeah AmigaDE actually made good commercial sense.
Wasn't obviously what Amiga fanboys wanted, but then again that's a tiny market.
Problem is Java was around at that time too, it's free, you don't have to share revenue with AInc and it's supported by BIG companies.
It was really a no-brainer.
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AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I
Except their conditions on the DE devs were awful. That right there was the last nail in the DEad's coffin.
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Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.
So who were/are those talentless morons called Cloanto paying royalties for that trainwreck of a product Amiga Forever today?
Someone owns Kickstart, and it would have been Amiga Inc 12 months ago so that makes no sense.
Makes no diference, I'd rather give 5 bucks to some guy on ebay for a SUPERIOR and NOT CRIPPLED Amiga emulation compilation anyway ;)
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So who were/are those talentless morons called Cloanto paying royalties for that trainwreck of a product Amiga Forever today?
Someone owns Kickstart, and it would have been Amiga Inc 12 months ago so that makes no sense.
Makes no diference, I'd rather give 5 bucks to some guy on ebay for a SUPERIOR and NOT CRIPPLED Amiga emulation compilation anyway ;)
Wow, those are some scathing comments about Amiga Forever. Is it really that bad? What are the problems with it?
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NEVER . . . Some nightmares are meant to last forever . . . . LOL
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In a way you are right, it's not impossible but so difficult to come up with something as good as PS3/360 for games at just 2x the cost it will never happen.
However all people wanted was a nice machine not too expensive (price/performance) to run OS4 this decade. And Amiga Inc failed to do that miserably too. But then so has every other company supplying OS4 capable hardware today and Hyperion's refusal to transfer OS4 to PPC Mac hardware which is plentiful is also fail ;)
The only company illegally supplying Amiga related items is Cloanto, as Amiga Inc are seemingly dead how the hell is their agreement to exclusively supply KS roms/WB ADFs still valid and not illegal, rip-off prices for Amiga Forever not withstanding ;)
If amiga ever come back then I will buy one. But the current holders of amiga rights, I use to compare it to a monkey with a magnum 44...
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Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.
Come on man, put a wink next to your post or it just looks like trolling :lol:
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So who were/are those talentless morons called Cloanto paying royalties for that trainwreck of a product Amiga Forever today?
Someone owns Kickstart, and it would have been Amiga Inc 12 months ago so that makes no sense.
Makes no diference, I'd rather give 5 bucks to some guy on ebay for a SUPERIOR and NOT CRIPPLED Amiga emulation compilation anyway ;)
What's wrong with Amiga Forever?
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If amiga ever come back then I will buy one. But the current holders of amiga rights, I use to compare it to a monkey with a magnum 44...
Magnum 44 is a little strong to describe what this monkey has. I'd go with particularly fragrant fecal matter and a decent throwing arm.