Amiga conspiracies and drama...

[haywirepc]

What great drama creating this computer that was 20 years ahead of its time... Damn thats drama...
 
More drama as amiga progressed but never gained the market share that it should have...
 
Fast forward some years...
 
There is the real amiga company dying... Then bought by escom, then gateway... then Silly Billy the retard...
 
There is the AMIGA INC - Silly Billy's attempt to rape the amiga name and make a living from it... Failing miserably...
 
MorphOS gets fucked out of becoming the new Amiga OS. Hyperion gets the job but takes years longer than agreed to finish anything....
 
Also numerous attempts by many companies claiming they had the perfect amiga clone but never releasing any products... But hey no really, the prototypes worked...
 
We have amiga forever, cloanto somehow being the only people legally able to sell roms for amiga os? - Is that shit still legal now or can I just bit torrent all their roms and software without worry because they never proved that no one else is allowed to sell/copy/give amiga os away?
 
MINIMIG is no joke, that shit is great and actually works and is available!
FPGA amiga's make their debut and soon may even allow AGA.
 
Next, we have the hyperion verses amiga inc drama and legal battle...
Long, drawn out... who won? Not Silly Billy, he is selling his ass for
rent money right now apparently.
 
Netami says their new improved amiga clone will someday ship...
But still has not delivered a single board after 2 years of hype...
 
Also lots of aging overpriced ppc motherboards offered... My phone has more power than many of those...
 
NEXT Hyperion wins court battle...
Silly Billy vanishes....
 
Lately...
 
Hyperion putting all their hopes on this x1000 but no one has seen one work yet... End of summer release? Why no videos, demos, something?
Gee, do you think they might miss the release date for this hardware?
Dude its June, end of summer is 2 months away, and no one has any idea
what the keyboard and mouse looks like. (including the people apparently making this computer, after several emails no reply on request)
 
In the meantime...
MorphOS ports to mac hardware.... Reactions to this decision are mixed with some calling for x86 port, and others claiming that was a great idea.
At least MorphOS keeps alive... For now.
 
AROS keeps building, some hw guys decide to cash in on an open source project, angering many in that camp...
 
Some people apparently aren't too happy that after so many people contributed to AROS, that some companies are selling hardware with AROS
installed, making money essentially off of everyone else's hard work, without paying any of the aros developers except those required to finish their hardware projects.
 
X1000 is well awaited. MorphOS keeps gaining ground. AROS is also gaining ground... Whats next, and also, what did I miss?
 
Perhaps why I love amiga is not just the hardware, not just the software, but its like a ridiculous movie I'd like to make when you think of all this drama revolving... Great stuff!
 
Add your own drama to this thread please!

Steven

[Pyromania]

Looks like you got it covered.

[Buzzfuzz]

Also lots of aging overpriced ppc motherboards offered... My phone has more power than many of those...

That is the biggest drama of all, and even worse, DCE is doing absolutely nothing with it
They have all the stuff from Phase5, schematics, designs, but it's just rotting away in their basement in a dark corner in some scruffy file cabinet :smack:

[NovaCoder]

looks like you got it covered.

x2

[runequester]

I guess you can toss in the original drama and conspiracy from the fall of Commodore

[kolla]

That is the biggest drama of all, and even worse, DCE is doing absolutely nothing with it
They have all the stuff from Phase5, schematics, designs, but it's just rotting away in their basement in a dark corner in some scruffy file cabinet :smack:

RHoS

[HammerD]

RHoS

Does that apply to North America? My "new" GVP Spectrum, I don't think, is RoHS

[Tension]

I doubt that A1200 "Magic Packs" are ROHS compliant.

[UncleSpam]

Like most "Amigas", there is plenty of drama to go around.

[the_leander]

I doubt that A1200 "Magic Packs" are ROHS compliant.

Doesn't apply as they were manufactured prior to the cut-off date. They're classed as new old stock.

As far as the GVP stuff goes, if they're not ROHS compliant, they could not legally be shipped to the EU if they were new (this does not apply to the US), however again, if it's simply a case of selling off of old stock, this won't apply.

[Manu]

@haywirepc

That's the drama so far yes, nice conlcusion.

Regardnig AROS hardware, I hope "some people" realize that those two guys selling AROS hardware actually are contributing more to AROS than "some people" probably ever donated in their lifetime. It's a give and take and to me it seems they've given alot more and I doubt they   yet made one cent profit.

Just wanted to point that out.

[clusteruk]

Where are those children, send them up the chimney, come on have you cleaned it yet.

[TrevorDick]

@Cluster

I've done my best to help, but it's not good, we are going to have to sell your children for medical experiments. Now about that Silent iMica ;-)

TrevorD

[haywirepc]

I Should have said, amiga conspiracies, drama and rumors...
 
You never really know whats what, but these are all things I hear.
 
I also hear silly billy is a crack addict too, and his new plan is to start
"Atari International", he thinks he might be able to convince the atari crowd he is making new machines and also that atari anywhere will be the next big thing... but that too,could just be a rumor.
 
Steven

[dammy]

@haywirepc

That's the drama so far yes, nice conlcusion.

Regardnig AROS hardware, I hope "some people" realize that those two guys selling AROS hardware actually are contributing more to AROS than "some people" probably ever donated in their lifetime. It's a give and take and to me it seems they've given alot more and I doubt they   yet made one cent profit.

Just wanted to point that out.

As the original hardware guy of AROS, let me explain something.  Without having any OEMs supporting AROS, AROS will have zero chance in having real growth.  This is chicken and egg bit, AROS needs the OEMs as much as it need Devs.  Not all Devs are seeing the fruit yet, well, life is never fair either.  They either need to advertise their talents for pay or deal with it until AROS can grow large enough for paid Devs to become a reality.  I do question how many Devs are not happy with it since they got involved in AROS, a well known open source project, if they had intentions of getting paid for their work in the first place.

Last time I checked, Linus is not getting paid a royalty either by the OEMs.  But he is in a OEMs funded job.