Where could I get a microA1 ?

[Lando]

Savan wrote:
@Noster

Sadly there is no available hardware to run OS4, you will see people talk of "ACK and Troika" but treat that as nonsense until you can actual buy the product.

Hopefully alan redhouse has left the amiga market and took his dirty company with him.

I don't think it's fair to call Eyetech a dirty company.  I always had excellent service from them whenever I bought Amiga hardware from them.

They were just totally out of their depth - seeing themselves as the saviour of 'The Amiga' when in reality Eyetech was just a (small) computer shop in Yorkshire.

Anyway, I think it's most likely that Eyetech has now left the Amiga market.  They did start trying to sell PC hardware a few years ago but with competition like Aria and Scan in the UK that was a dead end too (it's a bit hard to compete when your prices are double everyone elses).

Hopefully they'll be able to find another niche market to sustain them since the Amiga one died.

[Lando]

@Colin_Camper

>Anonymous   
>   Re: Organising correspondance with Eyetech
>Posted on 25-Feb-2005 17:02:04       [ # ]
>   
>@RedMelons
>
>Quote:
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>RedMelons wrote:
>Does anybody know whether Eyetech are still in the Amiga >business?
>
>
>Me
>
>And believe me, when Eyetech quit the Amiga business I'll >be among the first to know.
>Everyone's finding Alan hard to get hold of these days, >including his wife. Without wanting to go into details, >he's apparently currently doing the job of two, if not >three, people at the moment, trying to get the A1 into the >industrial market and preparing for the next generation of >A1s, liaising with Hyperion and MAI, trying to keep dealers >supplied, eat, etc etc
>
>There's an incredible amount of fiddly detail involved in >the A1/OS4 project, and even if some of the dealers are >doing our best to take some of it off his hands, he's still >horrendously busy.

>I know it's stressful when you haven't had any fresh news >for a while, but bear with us. In most cases it means we're >working bloody hard.

Well, that covers the situation a year ago.  I don't really see the relevance here today though.

Given that we've still heard nothing from Eyetech and that Mai haven't been heard from or updated their web site for nigh on 2 years apart from to hastily slap on an old backup from archive.org so that there was at least something there when it was deleted early last year...  

I think Eyetech and Mai are both about as alive as Amiga Inc is.  Which is to say 'not very'.

I also heard in another thread that the ACK PowerVixxens are  soon (next month at latest) to be shipped to dealers and that the product range will include CPU modules for A1's at reasonable prices.

That would be good news.  But, I heard in a thread back in 2004 that the ACK boards would be available Q1 2005.

I think the ratio of things that I read in threads to things which actually happened must be about 20 to 1.

[Lando]

Savan wrote:

Eyetech is working also for us

alan redhouse is a complete screw up, he has done more harm than good (same as ainc). OS4 is hardwareless thanks to that so-called "HERO" and now he is in hidding counting the ca$h he has fiddled out of the mugs.

What makes it even worse, in the 90s eyetech was a very decent and popular company.

Counting what cash?

~1000 A1's sold over the last four years at $1000 apiece, of which maybe 30% is profit is still only $300,000.  That's $75,000 a year, or £42,000.  If he had two staff and paid them £20k each a year he'd be left with £2000.  He'd have earned more than that stacking shelves in Tescos's 1 day a week.

Like Alan said, it would have been cheaper for him just to pay every AmigaOne owner $500 not to buy a board.

There is no market for Amiga hardware - anyone making hardware for this market and expecting to make money is delusional.  I doubt either ACK or Troika expect to make any money - they're just long time Amiga users / fans with hobby projects.