DiscreetFX want to buy AInc. next year

[Dandy]

On the DiscreetFX - news page it is said that they want to try to buy AInc next year.

What do you think of it?

[motorollin]

My first though it "here we go again..."

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moto

[McVenco]

My thoughts exactly moto. It's nice to see that companies believe in the Amiga, but I've got a feeling of "another year, another owner".

[JaXanim]

And good luck to them I say. At least we'll get regular updates.
As you'll no doubt know, DiscreetFX's boss is frequent contributor to this and other Amiga forums.

JaX

[Fats]

And the best way to do that is anouncing it in the press.
No, I don't think they are serious about it, or they are bad strategists.

greets,
Staf.

[Pyromania]

@Fats


Not my idea, the investors insited this be made public to keep the Amiga community in the loop. If it was up to me I would have not announced it yet.

[Magic-Merl]

The Investors.

Who would that be.....and why on Gods earth would they want the community to know about it.  The community has never been considered by an Investor before and I am sure that an Investor would not even know what an Amiga is/was.

[Louis Dias]

Amazingly in the current console business, you have alot of developers mentioning old Amiga development and porting of old Amiga games.

So while "this" Amiga community, that refuses to get with the times, is irrelevant to any potential new owners, the development community as a whole has a long and fond memory of the Amiga market.

That's where the value lies.  In re-establishing a brand.  And if they were smart, they would drop the bane that is "back-wards compatibility".  IMHO.  Just throw in a port of UAE and forget about it.  Heck throw us a bone and maked all classic hardware and software knowledge public domain so that alot of these "garage" hardware projects can take off.

The future is in OS 4 and beyond on as many platforms as possible, not the ancient hardware.

[humppa]

Magic-Merl wrote:
The Investors.

Who would that be.....

A famous celebrity from Chicago.

:roflmao:

[snowman040]

@Pyromania: and what 'size' of investment this celebrity is planing ? 10, 20, 50, 100 million USD ?

[Tomas]

The community has never been considered by an Investor before and I am sure that an Investor would not even know what an Amiga is/was.

From what i understood, atleast one of these investors have been into amiga and newtek videotoaster in the past, so it is simply not true that they dont know what an amiga is.

[jorkany]

A famous celebrity from Chicago.

Is Ted Danson from Chicago??

[lempkee]

out of comments are we? , i wonder why on earth people here (and other forums) is mocking what discreetFX just did, yes they said they where interested in buying AmigaInc.

i would say good luck to pyro and the investors and i know i will back it when and if it happens but until then i rather just stay quiet.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

[TheMagicM]

I bet its Michael Jordan.

[jorkany]

@lempkee,

i wonder why on earth people here (and other forums) is mocking what discreetFX just did

Well, the OP asked "What do you think?", so apparently these responses are what people think. Not everyone feels that a direct question like that is a reason to keep quiet.

But aside from the pointlessness of announcing a plan to maybe try to buy AInc. (hey, maybe *I'M* going to buy AInc in TWO months!), I think what really put the announcement over the top were statements like the following.


"I want to help bring the Amiga back to it's former glory in new IT markets".

Even the original Amiga never made inroads in new IT markets. Obviously there was no IT niche there in the past, and there especially isn't one today when practically every IT niche has already been filled. This is a good sign that the whole thing is hooey, or would just turn into more hooey. New boss same as the old boss.


"If an agreement can be reached between Amiga Inc. and DiscreetFX the return of Amiga will be amazing."

As someone else on these forums said, amazing how? On a more fundamental level though, WHY does there need to be a "return of Amiga"? What is it that's so wrong with the original Amiga that there has to be a "return"? Can't anyone appreciate the Amiga for what it is: the best computer of it's day?