I bloody well knew it - Brian Bagnell wants yet more time and more money

[tasmanian guy]

As a backer as well.. my take on it;

"The Kickstarter states "Take a journey from Amiga's beginnings in 1982 to when Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994" but nope we are now only going to get a printed book until 1987. Having purchased the other 2 x books "Commodore a company on the edge" I'm really disappointed this Kickstarter is not going to deliver what was promised. I'm also paying for one of the higher awards expecting this will be the "complete" book, but it now won't be; it will be only half the book I backed! Looking at the comments, I'm in minority here, but as a higher backer I was expecting the full story for the price I paid for the exclusives I had pledged for. Kickstarter creators should keep the original promise and not use the $$$ to fund other projects where we have paid $$$ already only to receive what will be half a book."

[tasmanian guy]

Amiga in Pixels is being done by Chris Wilkins.  He is awesome and always delivers on his Kickstarters and then some!  

The Amiga Years Blu ray was bloody awesome too (so too was Bedrooms to Billions and they are now doing a Playstation documentary as well..which is another one I have backed).

[tasmanian guy]

I'm getting my lawyer too... might actually start a gofundme page to get the book I paid for.  If he wrote the book over 1,000 pages when he knew he needed it to be only 500 odd pages, there's a simple solution.  Reduce the spacing in between the lines and/or reduce the font size.  He could also do a search on "that", "which" and remove them as they are often not required.  He could also reduce the number of pages required by replacing Commodore with just the chicken head symbol and instead of writing Amiga it could be shortened to Miga, even.

Seriously this guy needs to write succinctly anyway... he knew what the Kickstarter was for, he would be seriously penalised if he wrote a 4000 word essay and the requirement was to only write a 2000 word essay.  He would have failed at university!  I guess he has all of our money now and thinks he can do whatever he wants.  Write the book like he said he would, a complete book, not half a book and if you can't fit it in, make the spacing in between the lines smaller and or the font size smaller and take some of these other serious suggestions on board!

[tasmanian guy]

Should be called Commodore: Half of the Amiga Years.... the rest is a DLC

[tasmanian guy]

Well let Brian say this in his own words:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book/posts/1813447

"Just now, at 11:51 pm, I finished the last of the actual writing for Commodore: The Amiga Years. In other words, there is now a complete book that can be read from start (1982) to end (1994) telling the complete Commodore-Amiga story." and

"The next milestone is a release of the full Kickstarter edition of this book--probably in the 850 to 900 page range...."

As a higher tier backer I just wanted one book to tell the story of Commodore: The Amiga Years.  Looks like he finished it, was going to be available to Kickstarters as a book in the 850-900 range, but instead decided to profit further by releasing the book in two parts.

Once again in Brian's words https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book/posts/1888987

"The Amiga Years is currently at 567 pages after the split, and will have to be reduced to a little over 500 pages due to front material, table of contents, index and other things. Ill need to cut around 1-2 pages per chapter in order to make that goal."

So he finished the complete story (in his words) in 850 to 900 words, then decided to split the book in two (at around 500 pages each) so he could sell the other half to us