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Offline Rebel-CD32

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Re: Professionally published homebrew games.
« on: September 19, 2014, 09:55:04 PM »
When Cammy says she wants to support the Amiga community, that's exactly what she means. It's all for them, none for her. So she has a problem with people who take more than they give back. She doesn't hide behind some false, "well-meaning" facade. The thing is she was pushing the Amiga community to develop new software and promoting the idea of an app store years before Amigakit stepped in. She provided prize incentives out of her own unemployed pocket in game making competitions she started to promote development. Where was Amigakit all those years? Did they ever offer to donate a prize? No, but others who sold similar products for a lot less than he does gave away hardware prizes. She made friends with the real people in the Amiga community and inspired them to keep working, she brought hundreds of new users to the community and helped so many of them get the most out of their Amigas. She helped hardware developers produce new peripherals for us by networking with innovators from around the world.

So I guess you can see why she has a problem with this guy who only ever "helps" when he sees something in it for himself.
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Re: Professionally published homebrew games.
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 10:13:58 PM »
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Are you for REAL? What the hell does your agenda have to do with AmigaKit? What do you think AmigaKit owes you? This entire thread would seem nothing more than an unmitigated attack on a legitimate retailer providing a product to the Amiga community! It's this sort of attitude that gives Amiga a bad name! STOP WITH THE PITY PARTY ALREADY!!!!!! WHAT IS YOUR F*CKING PROBLEM!

As a close friend of Cammy's I see directly how this guy has affected her with his insistence to %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! on her parade any chance he gets, and it's been going on for years now. It's a pity people like yourself lack the intuition to notice the patterns of behavior in these people over time, but it's clear to see for some of us who truly has an agenda.
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Re: Professionally published homebrew games.
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2014, 11:05:16 PM »
Perhaps a little history of the conflict between Cammy and Amigakit may help explain why she got so emotional and left the forum.

Cammy has always found and supported smaller hardware inventors, manufacturers and sellers, as well as pointing out cheaper solutions direct from China being sold at a fraction of the cost of identical items being sold by Amigakit. She likes to help the little guy, both developers and consumers. This has annoyed Amigakit, who doesn't deal well with competition, especially when it shows how much overhead he has on some items.

Years pass and Cammy felt like she was bullied out of the community. She developed depression and stopped being productive. People eventually started to miss her and asked about her. I explained that she was in a very bad way and really needs some support, and for some reason this thread annoyed Amigakit and it was closed before Cammy could come back and reply herself. Others, who had expected such censorship already started another thread where they welcomed her back and convinced her to start posting again.

She has been wanting to talk about publishing homebrew Amiga games in boxes for collectors for a while, and so she spent a lot of time writing up the thread and finding heaps of example photos of boxed homebrew games. It wasn't about an app store at all, even though that is another idea Cammy had been discussing for years without much support.

So you can see why Amigakit barging in here and stomping on her dreams so soon after censoring a thread made by well-meaning community members to support her might upset her and drive her off.
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