Merlancia.com server changes.

[System]

You seriously think that Amiga, Inc. has added to the community? Gad, are you lost! Amiga's done more to sabotage the Amiga hardware line than anyone possibly could. Look at Amiga, Inc. "behind the scenes".
 And, in Bill's pockets! Look at Bill. Bill has lots of toys for his kids. Uh, oh! No wonder Bill didn't make a holiday entrance. Bill's buried under all those toys he bought with Amiga money. Is that like Monopoly money?? Too bad his employees didn't get some of that loot. What? Bill's "borrowing" money  from investors and delivering nothing? And, what happened to Amiga's offices? Does everyone at Amiga work from home? Is that the equivalent of the home "front"?
:smack:  :smack:  :smack:

[System]

yeah. i believe that.

They delivered AmigaSDK and gave to  hyperion and Hack&Patch the possibility to upgrade AmigaOS.

Meanwhile, Merlancia talked, talked, talked and didn't anything.  These are FACTS, not words.

Slap those fishes to yourself, please.  :-D  :-D  :-D

[System]

The only people that ever did anything for the Amiga after buying the company were Commodore's engineering department.
Unless someone can get some of these engineers together and give them a bag of cash, then the Amiga is lost forever, and computers in general will never evolve from the archaic idea that the proccessor should do all the work.

[Indoro]

Oh yes, the lovely SDK that no-one wanted. The SDK that didn't even include all the tools needed to develop for the still unfinished AmigaDE that no-one uses. The wonderful SDK that we have over 1000 sets of in storage that no-one wabts to buy because it is quite useless.

And OS3.9. Wonderful. The took forever to decide to do that, then said it was the end of "Amiga CLASSIC", waited a year, then announces OD4, and we're a year from there anbd how many release dates late?

And let's not forget the latest bomb, the $50 coupon and T-Shirt fiasco. God help us here...

You know, Amiga took hundreds of thousands of dollars fromt he Amiga community, and gave us notheing but lies abnd garbage for it all. In retrospect, we took, exactly...

ZERO

from ANYONEl and let's put that in a time frame...

EVER!

for any of the products that we announced that have yet to ship. We have had people willign to prepay in advance for multple units, and we turned down their money.

Sure, we are taking a long time to do anything, but your beloved Amiga Inc isn't doing you or anyone else any favours here. So who are more evil. The guys that have yet to make anything that are taking your cash, or the guys that are working their asses off that have yet to release anything, but haven't asked you for a bloody cent yet?


Answer me that...

[System]

MUAHAHAHA!! I can't stop laughing.... :-D :-D :-D

What did you in the last three years? NOTHING. Apart from the fact you sold some plain old 68k stuff...that isn't "deliver something to the community"

I want something REAL up front, and now!
I'm tired of people like you who promise much and don't deliver anything. IMO what a bunch of exhibitionists you are!

Bill+Alan+Ben have something real to give us  (AmigaOS4 and A1) and I think I'm more likely to give THEM the credit they need, not YOU.

Shut up and go back in your lab to solder the chips and the circuits we WANT, and do not waste my and your bandwidth with your hoaxes & hype until then, please.  :-(  :-(

[Troels_E]

@Indoro

Oh yes, the lovely SDK that no-one wanted. The SDK that didn't even include all the tools needed to develop for the still unfinished AmigaDE that no-one uses. The wonderful SDK that we have over 1000 sets of in storage that no-one wabts to buy because it is quite useless.

First of all it seems like mis-management to buy 1300+ (?) SDK's and still having 1000 sets left.

I also don't agree that it's useless!
without updates and the stuff AMIGA HAS DEVELOPED for it, it might be close to useless, but all you have to do is to sign that SDA/NDA and download the new stuff.

I didn't like the coupon crap they did..

didn't buy a coupon from them myself..

I only  buy complete and existing products, thats why I will get an AmigaOne with OS4, instead of anything from you guys.

Are you willing to take a bet on whats released first A1+OS4 or any of your upcoming PPC hardware+ anyOS?

[MarkTime]

How about this for an answer,

What would you think about a kid, that makes most of his living selling talking key chains and stuffed pooh bear animal's on e-bay, going around claiming to be the CEO of an international engineering firm.

[MarkTime]

p.s. when you sold that last copy of the SDK for what was it, 70 bucks on e-bay, did you list in its description that:

it is quite useless.

[Indoro]

I have never sold any Amiga items on eBay, nor any pooh bear keychains or whatnot as you have outlined. I have sold a few coins, currency and the occasional casino cheque on ebay, and I buy antiques, numismatic and phillatellic collectibles, lesney collectibles, cigar related materials, furnishings from the victorian to WW2 era, fountain pens, computing prototypes, and Middle-Earth related colleectibles over the past few years.

I don't sell items on eBay unless I have a good reason to. buying casine cheques or $2 bills bound into Caesar's Palace brand pads in vega$ and turning them around for a 500% profit is a way to recoup losses in Vega$. That's about the extent of my eBay sales.

The last item I bought on eBay was a sword made of high carbon spring steel.

What planet are you on again, or what parallel universe did you drop out of?

//R//

[System]

Commodore made a big mistake. They had no merchandising skills.
Yes, give the engineers a bag of cash, and you still get nothing.  Pay them 10 grand a month to sit on their arses and play their little games.  Just don't expect them to produce haineything useful.  Bow and scrape to their names because they are Amiga icons. They don't have to work anymore. They should be worshipped for all the things they did years ago. Maybe they used up all their engineering skills at that time and just can't cut it anymore. So, they just sit around and take the money. Wouldn't you like to get $10,000 a month for doing absolutely nothing?  :crazy:

[System]

> The only people that ever did anything for the Amiga after buying the company were Commodore's engineering department.

Well, I don't know if that's stictly true, but thanks for the mention of us. It's pretty clear that things haven't gone well since the end of Commodore. In some cases, there was genuine intent. I consulted for Amiga Technologies, who really did want to bring the Amiga back, at a time it would have been practical. Unfortunately, ESCOM was killing themselves just as we were trying to get things off the ground.

> Unless someone can get some of these engineers together and give them a bag of cash, then the Amiga is lost forever,

Well, I had hoped to do that when I worked for Merlancia. Unfortunately, I found the company run by a child, who's sadly a pathological liar, and his angry mother. They had no experience in engineering, there was nothing being done in engineering at Merlancia, despite all the pretty pictures and stories on the web site, and they had no money or real intention of building an engineering company. Which is a hard enough thing to do when there is money, impossible when no one's being paid.

I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation at Merlancia today, but I doubt very much it's any different. Sure, they can OEM the same motherboards any of us could, but that an engineering company does not make. These are not simply incompetents, they are criminals. Stay away from them and anything they do, if you value your hard-earned money.

> and computers in general will never evolve from the archaic idea that the proccessor should do all the work.

They pretty much did in the 1990s. The graphics chip in most computers today does 3D coordinate transforms (and other operations) dramatically faster than the CPU could do (on the order of 25x faster, last I checked, and it's been awhile). They use DMA for everything the Amiga did (and more; most graphics chips can access main memory directly), they autoconfig (some of the software still needs work), they have audio processing itself more powerful than a room full of Amiga 1200s, etc.

Could they do more? Sure. Will they? Not on the C= agenda, sure. Look up "Acutiator" on http://www.thule.no/haynie if you want to see what I was trying to do 8-9 years ago, in that regard. But really, it's not the hardware that's the problem, it hasn't been for some time.

You pal,
-Dave

[System]

> Yes, give the engineers a bag of cash, and you still get nothing. Pay them 10 grand a month to sit on their arses and play their little games. Just don't expect them to produce haineything useful.

Well, Ryan, no, you don't get a new ground-up design in two months. That's how long it went before you stropped paying, and even at that, I had to fight with you to get paid. You never paid anyone else, period.

As a child without any engineering experience (did you even graduate High School?), I can't expect you to understand that it takes about a year, give or take, to move from idea to product, and that's with a properly funded engineering department.

When you claimed to have a $650,000 budget (on the Amiga, Inc. trip, that's what you told Bill), the project we had started seemed doable, if not necesarily wise. But hey, your company, your money, all I can do is advise. Obviously, were the truth known, none of us would have given you the time of day. But we're all honest folks -- we don't expect to be lied to, cheated, and decieved. Merlancia as you sold it to me was a total fraud. Still is. You know it, I know it. Now they all know it, or at least the few who still fall for your tall tales.

-Dave

[System]

Hainey, Hainey, Hainey....I'm not Ryan. Do you always jump to conclusions or do you just "think" you know everything? Yeah! I guess that "think" is not a word that you associate with.

So,what did you produce in two months? News is that you were uncooperative. Very uncooperative! And, that you never delivered anything for the dough. Were you j...... o.. in front of theT.V?  

P.S. It was more that two months. You also
have a short memory (in addition to other short "comings").

Why didn't you send those items that you sold on e-bay? Talk about being dishonest!  You're a THIEF!

Still paying your "stoolie" (as in "stool")  to get "information"?      :pint: