Before even beginning properly, they quickly began talking about "a super amiga". Do the groundwork first and build upon it imo. Tina was a huge mass of hyperbole.
Some of the TiNA tech claims were unrealistic. The fpga CPU clock speed is unrealistic and using 3 fpgas like they do is much more difficult than one fat one. I believe they had/have some people working on something but what they are trying to do and how they are trying to do it is very difficult. It's unlikely they would ever achieve the results they are after.
Story was, that one guy worked in a company (CdMauro?)that was interested in selling the tina board tech and had a contract with another company who wished to buy said tech. Cdmauro left the company and his new company apparently forbid him in contract to work on anything with another company.
Still go figure, if the first company were planning to sell the tina tech and make some money, then why would they not continue anyway, even if a key member had left.
Cesare DiMauro was never actually involved with the company in Italy besides consulting. He helped write one of the best Amiga fighters (Fighting Spirit?) and is on many Amiga forums. He moved to Germany for a job with Intel and does have some things he is not supposed to discuss which limited any help he could give, not that he has the kind of technical hardware related knowledge they need.
