MAI Logic Website Disappeared

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MAI was poop long before the Amiga cabal touched it.

I'm surprised so many A1 boards were sold given the known problems and the expense.

I've always said it made far greater sense to port either AOS4 or MOS to Apple's Uni-N chipset. Would you rather pay thousands for buggy HW or hundreds for the ability to run your apps on a PowerBook? It's not like the licensed hardware was any good even if it did run as advertised. Years old PowerMac hardware could be had on eBay for a fraction of the price.

But I suppose that just wouldn't be proper. So we have this mess instead.

Now that game consoles have hard drives I wonder how much more obvious these decisions are. Oh but please, keep yammering on about MAI's Artica-based ITX boards. zzz

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Just to master the obvious:

It's INSANE to design a custom board for 2000 customers. You got what could be afforded for such a market: buggy reference boards.

Why waste all that effort making boards which are no better (in fact much worse) than what's already available?

The whole license situation is all the more laughable. Sure, all we need to do is find a company willing to prostrate themselves before the great Amiga/Hyperion and beg for a license to give them $170 per copy. Hyperion is the party who has to prove themselves. AOS4 is an UNPROVEN technology, unworthy of such a license scheme. The buggy state of affairs only makes this situation more untenable.

OK, I think this dead horse has had enough... :-D

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Maybe if/when Eyetech drops out that will force Hyperion to adopt a different business model.

What are people planning to use their PCI slots for which isn't taken care of by the built-in abilities of the new consoles?

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Acill wrote:

Uh I tried to PAY Hyperion for a port in the sum of $15,000 and I was told no I need to get a license to bring it to the Pegasos from Amiga Inc, so Apple would have to do thae same in that sence and they would never do that.

WTF? Sounds like the royal run-around  :pissed:

If this is true, the sooner the Amiga cabal is forced to rethink their tactics the better!

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asian1 wrote:

Apparently Mai Logic did not pay its employees.

Wow, I guess they really were an Amiga company.