So when will we know what's happened to Amiga, Inc.?

[VingtTrois]

VP Product Development at Amiga Inc...

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vince-pfeifer/10/469/939

This Vince PFEIFER?

[mongo]

This Vince PFEIFER?

Yes. You can even see him with a real life boing ball in his profile picture. No doubt one of the [strike]many[/strike] [strike]several[/strike] [strike]dozens of[/strike] three products developed by Amiga Inc during his 10 years there as head of product development.

[Pyromania]

In a way you are right, it's not impossible but so difficult to come up with something as good as PS3/360 for games at just 2x the cost it will never happen.

However all people wanted was a nice machine not too expensive (price/performance) to run OS4 this decade. And Amiga Inc failed to do that miserably too. But then so has every other company supplying OS4 capable hardware today and Hyperion's refusal to transfer OS4 to PPC Mac hardware which is plentiful is also fail

The only company illegally supplying Amiga related items is Cloanto, as Amiga Inc are seemingly dead how the hell is their agreement to exclusively supply KS roms/WB ADFs still valid and not illegal, rip-off prices for Amiga Forever not withstanding

Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.

[DBAlex]

They are busy in the gulf helping with the oil spill cleanup efforts. Bill McEwen and crew have teamed up with Kevin Costner.

"Did you hear Bill McEwen's helping out with the oil spill?"

"No?"

"Yeah, he's going to plug the gap with boing balls."

[Boudicca]

This Vince PFEIFER?

Noooooo......Can't be.............Nooooooooooooo..................ha ha ha! VP of Chocolate Consumption..........Yes cruel but true.

[koaftder]

Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.

[Boudicca]

Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.

Is that some new definition of "Alive" that I wasn't previously aware of. They have been doomed since they uttered the words Amiga Anywhere....No Cash = Milk / Killing the Sacred Cow

[the_leander]

Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.

The first version of AF came out in 97 or thereabouts - I remember seeing the review of it on CU Amiga. I think it would have been either Escom right before they went belly up or not very long after Gateway took over.

[koaftder]

Is that some new definition of "Alive" that I wasn't previously aware of. They have been doomed since they uttered the words Amiga Anywhere....No Cash = Milk / Killing the Sacred Cow

AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I

[DBAlex]

AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I

Yeah AmigaDE actually made good commercial sense.

Wasn't obviously what Amiga fanboys wanted, but then again that's a tiny market.

Problem is Java was around at that time too, it's free, you don't have to share revenue with AInc and it's supported by BIG companies.

It was really a no-brainer.

[dammy]

AmigaDE made a hell of a lot of better business sense than AOS4. It allowed them the possibility to float their platform on everything under the sun. Problem was, their platform wasn't that great and they didn't have the resources to force the market into using it. I

Except their conditions on the DE devs were awful.  That right there was the last nail in the DEad's coffin.

[Amiga_Nut]

Cloanto's agreement predates the formation of Amiga Inc. and is fully legal.

So who were/are those talentless morons called Cloanto paying royalties for that trainwreck of a product Amiga Forever today?

Someone owns Kickstart, and it would have been Amiga Inc 12 months ago so that makes no sense.

Makes no diference, I'd rather give 5 bucks to some guy on ebay for a SUPERIOR and NOT CRIPPLED Amiga emulation compilation anyway

[orb85750]

So who were/are those talentless morons called Cloanto paying royalties for that trainwreck of a product Amiga Forever today?

Someone owns Kickstart, and it would have been Amiga Inc 12 months ago so that makes no sense.

Makes no diference, I'd rather give 5 bucks to some guy on ebay for a SUPERIOR and NOT CRIPPLED Amiga emulation compilation anyway

Wow, those are some scathing comments about Amiga Forever.  Is it really that bad?  What are the problems with it?

[Wolfe]

NEVER .  .  .  Some nightmares are meant to last forever . . . . LOL

[alphadec]

In a way you are right, it's not impossible but so difficult to come up with something as good as PS3/360 for games at just 2x the cost it will never happen.

However all people wanted was a nice machine not too expensive (price/performance) to run OS4 this decade. And Amiga Inc failed to do that miserably too. But then so has every other company supplying OS4 capable hardware today and Hyperion's refusal to transfer OS4 to PPC Mac hardware which is plentiful is also fail

The only company illegally supplying Amiga related items is Cloanto, as Amiga Inc are seemingly dead how the hell is their agreement to exclusively supply KS roms/WB ADFs still valid and not illegal, rip-off prices for Amiga Forever not withstanding

If amiga ever come back then I will buy one. But the current holders of amiga rights, I use to compare it to a monkey with a magnum 44...

[redrumloa]

Amiga Inc would still be alive if they hadn't made the error of involving themselves with Hyperion.

Come on man, put a wink next to your post or it just looks like trolling :lol: