@Mountain_Myst
As I see it, the only "real" friend that Microsoft has in the Amiga World is Wayne and all the rest of his puppets.
Ummm. When did I take this to the level of personal insult? I said Amiga Inc is in bed with Microsoft. They are. Besides, if you can't see how "friendly" McEwen is being in this situation, you have much bigger problems than can be addressed by this Web site.
I have no puppets, nor is anyone invited to follow me along my road of babbling. I have an opinion. My opinion is that Amiga Inc has failed to do anything they've promised and that now there is no future of the Amiga platform outside of a slow, overpriced dedicated hardware machine. AmigaDE/AA/Whatever might be a very cool games engine, but it has nothing to do with the Amiga.
RE: hatred of Bill McEwen personally.
I have zero hatred for Bill McEwen, "Fleecy" or any other staff member of Amiga Inc. Hatred requires feeling and I feel little but apathy towards the current Amiga situation. I feel a great deal of angst for what could have been, but it's too late to change it now for them to get back on the right path.
Amazingly, of those Amiga Inc personnel I honestly know, Gary Peake is the ONLY one who has -- over the years -- gained and held my respect. He is generally the ONLY one there who will plainly speak the truth and not encompass it in 5 tons of marketspeech. Your mileage may vary.
In my never-so-humble opinion, the only thing they've ever done which is even remotely respectable is to stay afloat. For the lean days when Amiga Inc personnel were having to file personal bankruptcy and lose their houses/cars and livelyhood, they have my respect for not giving up.
The question then becomes.... "did they ever have a choice but to continue considering their debt"? They have something they paid 5 million dollars for. It's now worthless so they can't sell it, so what else could they have done even if they had a choice?