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Offline smithy

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Re: Amiga dev folks and softwares and stuff
« on: June 25, 2004, 11:30:58 AM »
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I remember McEwen saying that there were loads of people calling and asking about Amiga and developing stuff for it, etc. Do we know who all is developing for Amiga and if that loads-of list is still long as it ever was?


I think you are referring to McEwen's famous "we have 3000 developers" claim.  This was based on the fact that he'd sold 3000 copies of his AmigaDE developer CD.  Unfortunately (for him), based on the non-output of his 3000 developers, it seems that most people that bought it were ordinary users or people after a money-off voucher for an AmigaOne.

I think the "3000 developers" claim is an infamous as the "on schedule and rocking", or "I have seen OS4 running" (in May 2001 - when development had been secretly suspended before it had been started), or "Amiga Inc owns AmigaOS" (6 months after they'd "sold" it to KMOS), etc, etc...

McEwen, "Fleecy" and co have already gone down in history as the worst thing ever to happen to the Amiga... good riddence to the lot of 'em.