Bill...you were a value to the community...if possible, forget the past, move on, look for a brighter future!
Too many hold onto grudges of the past that really make no sense anymore.
Sorry, I don't really care about
that - which is why I changed my avatar away from that old badge.
The comment I made comes purely from a consumer point of view. Offer me something that I consider exciting and worth my money* and I'll be positive about it. Offer me something that I find so uninteresting I would not invest in it even if it was a quarter of the price and I'll just go "meh..."
I'll grant you my comments are very much those of an outsider these days, but then if you can't attract the outsiders what is likely to change? Maybe in 1985 being different for its own sake had some value - particularly since everyone was doing it - but now if you're going to be different you need to be
better than the mainstream to have any hope of attracting and maintaining a true market. You'd have to say that this doesn't really qualify, either in hardware or software terms. Like I said, I'm an outsider now as I do all my work and play on different platforms and have no compelling reason to actively use Amigas any more - real or emulated. I'm looking at this as a passing (and passive) observer for old times' sake, nothing more.
* - according to my criteria, of course, since it's my money I'd have to invest.
