What great drama creating this computer that was 20 years ahead of its time... Damn thats drama...
More drama as amiga progressed but never gained the market share that it should have...
Fast forward some years...
There is the real amiga company dying... Then bought by escom, then gateway... then Silly Billy the retard...
There is the AMIGA INC - Silly Billy's attempt to rape the amiga name and make a living from it... Failing miserably...
MorphOS gets fucked out of becoming the new Amiga OS. Hyperion gets the job but takes years longer than agreed to finish anything....
Also numerous attempts by many companies claiming they had the perfect amiga clone but never releasing any products... But hey no really, the prototypes worked...
We have amiga forever, cloanto somehow being the only people legally able to sell roms for amiga os? - Is that shit still legal now or can I just bit torrent all their roms and software without worry because they never proved that no one else is allowed to sell/copy/give amiga os away?
MINIMIG is no joke, that shit is great and actually works and is available!
FPGA amiga's make their debut and soon may even allow AGA.
Next, we have the hyperion verses amiga inc drama and legal battle...
Long, drawn out... who won? Not Silly Billy, he is selling his ass for
rent money right now apparently.
Netami says their new improved amiga clone will someday ship...
But still has not delivered a single board after 2 years of hype...
Also lots of aging overpriced ppc motherboards offered... My phone has more power than many of those...
NEXT Hyperion wins court battle...
Silly Billy vanishes....
Lately...
Hyperion putting all their hopes on this x1000 but no one has seen one work yet... End of summer release? Why no videos, demos, something?
Gee, do you think they might miss the release date for this hardware?
Dude its June, end of summer is 2 months away, and no one has any idea
what the keyboard and mouse looks like. (including the people apparently making this computer, after several emails no reply on request)
In the meantime...
MorphOS ports to mac hardware.... Reactions to this decision are mixed with some calling for x86 port, and others claiming that was a great idea.
At least MorphOS keeps alive... For now.
AROS keeps building, some hw guys decide to cash in on an open source project, angering many in that camp...
Some people apparently aren't too happy that after so many people contributed to AROS, that some companies are selling hardware with AROS
installed, making money essentially off of everyone else's hard work, without paying any of the aros developers except those required to finish their hardware projects.
X1000 is well awaited. MorphOS keeps gaining ground. AROS is also gaining ground... Whats next, and also, what did I miss?
Perhaps why I love amiga is not just the hardware, not just the software, but its like a ridiculous movie I'd like to make when you think of all this drama revolving... Great stuff!
Add your own drama to this thread please!
Steven
