Rats leaving a sinking ship, or something else?

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@Karlos

I have to agree with Bobson on this one. Amiga Inc., in my opinion are primarily guilty of being inept at running the company. I don't think they would have willingly set themselves up for all this crap...

They have screwed up rotten and haven't delivered on many promises, but I don't think that was their plan.

I don't think that anybody in their right mind believes they set out to scam people when they bought & licensed the Amiga stock and IP off Gateway.

However, when they screwed up, they reacted by attempting to sweep the mess under the carpet, and then turned to downright fraud rather than give it up as a bad job. Did they really intend to scam people with the Party Pack and coupon discount schemes? Maybe not, but my take is that they weren't at all certain they could honour their end of the bargain, but decided to take the money anyway and hope something would turn up before they'd have to make good on it.

It's not such a surprising story. A lot of people who end up committing fraud don't set out to do so, but simply get caught up on the downward slide and can't get off before it's too late.

At the end of the day, claiming that their current plight is just down to bad luck or evil competitors is a very sorry excuse for utter incompetence.

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@Tigger

You are missing a whole lot of steps here, however understand, MorphOS runs on multiple PPC boards

Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but MorphOS is not available independent of the Pegasos hardware. You can't use MorphOS without buying a Pegasos any more than you'll be able to use AmigaOS4 without buying an AmigaOne (the CSPPC/BlizzardPPC cards don't count).  The fact that the impediment is not hardcoded into the firmware is rendered meaningless by current marketing policy.

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@Andy

Read again When it's released

Well, I don't think we should be talking about things in advance here. There is no point talking about a syatem as it is currently marketed and comparing it against something that isn't even released yet.

Are Blizzard/CSPPC versions publically available? No. Which was that whole point of me mentioning it. Whoever it was was complaining about AOS being limited to one platform, which is not true,

Blizzards/CSPPC  don't count anyway, as no one manufactures these any more.

It is a simple fact that both MorphOS and AmigaOS4 are just marketing gimmicks intended to sell custom hardware solutions.

What I find laughable is that the only argument I can find against this is the old "it hasn't been released yet" chesnut.

It's a valid argument. A lot of things have been promised over the years and have never actually materialised.  There is no guarantee that something will be released until it actually is.