I remember myself, 9 years old ('89), and owner of an Amstrad CPC, reading the greek, pro-Amiga magazine "Pixel" and being astonished with the capabilities of the Amiga... I bought an A500 (2nd hand) in 92 and kept it until 96. I LOVED IT! Shadow of the beast, R-Type etc, etc.... I remember how sad I felt seeing Commodore's demise... In the end, after Escom's failure, I said "That's it... it's gone! The platform's gone" and sold it for around 30.000 drachmas (around £80), complete with monitor.... I regretted it...
Back in early 2002, I wanted to check out if after Gateway's failure to deliver the goods, there were still people loyal to the Amiga. I was surprised seeing that the market still existed and there were new custom built models (*cough, cough*) coming around and a new OS... Then I forgot about the Amiga again... Until this year I discovered that a company called Genesi manufactured this PPC computer that runs an OS that resembles to the AmigaOS very much and it's really fast and efficient... I liked it very, very much... I hope that by the next spring I will able to afford a whole pegasos 2 computer (mobo,CPU, ram, Radeon, micro ATX Case, 15' TFT Monitor) --> 750 quid :-)
now lets investigate a bit about amiga inc....
Sorry guys but in the eyes of an outsider to the amiga community, this bunch of people (lead by Moss/McEwen) has become really comic ....
Amiga inc's recent history highlights:
1) The coupons...
2) Fleecy: (reffering to the Escena's "design") "The AmigaOne 1200 is almost ready...."
3) Fleecy: (reffering to the nonexistent OS4 back in 2001 ) "OS4 is almost ready and it ROCKS!"
4) The landlord having to sell their belongings 'cause they didn't pay the rent.....
and more, and more....
now tell me, HOW RELIABLE IS A COMPANY THAT IS ALLEGED TO BE STEALING FROM ITS OWN CUSTOMERS (coupons), IS CURRENTLY BROKE AND IN DEBT OF 2.2 MILLIONS (I wonder how exactly Mr. McEwen plans to pay back? Oh yeah I forgot OS4 will sell 10 million copies! Leave out the millions that AmigaDe will sell....) AND OVERALLY IN DEEP SH&T
(lawsuits, unpaid salaries etc.)...
In my eyes this is the lowest point for the Amiga... The only salvation that I can imagine will be if an average-to-large company, say 3dLabs or Matrox, buys AmigaIng and pulls it out of the sewer... I don't know...I really don't know.....
(sorry about my bad English)
