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Offline psxphill

Re: Whom do you nominate as the worst Amiga trademark holder of all time?
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 31, 2011, 01:23:34 PM »
Quote from: B00tDisk;673726
In Workbench 1.2 there's an easter egg from the Amiga programmers (not C= !) that you can find that says "We made Amiga, They ****ed it up". All the way back in 1.2. The Amiga folks knew the writing was on the wall in 1986.

The message was a game changer.
 
Sales in the UK were delayed while the message was removed & then development was moved to commodore because they didn't want it to happen again.
 
Without it, the a500 would probably not have happened and alot of people would never have afforded an amiga.
 

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Re: Whom do you nominate as the worst Amiga trademark holder of all time?
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2011, 02:35:58 PM »
There is no way that it is Amiga the company.  Yes they had some lows but there were also many highs!  

I vote for Gateway who did nothing but make false promises at a time when there still might have been a future.  There was still a pulse.
 

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« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2011, 03:07:23 PM »
I agree gateway really missed the boat and are as large a part of amigas demise as anyone, after all they sold off to silly billy.

I would still argue however, that silly billy at the fake amiga inc and all its related shell game "companies" has done more harm to amiga and its legacy than any single individual.

The t-shirt scam, all the promises of new amiga, the bankruptcies, screwing investors, shell games to screw "shareholders" and business partners out of any money they put in, the fake company stuff (people visited their "office" in nyc and it was laughable!) The stadium sponsorship fakeout, and now the latest scam, taking orders for tablet devices they never delivered.

What else? Screwing cloanto or trying to, screwing H+P,Screwing amithlon developers...  Screwing MorphOS developers,and more.

Hey there is selling the rights to use the name to anyone with a few bucks that want to slap stickers on standard pcs.

And lets not forget the hyperion/ainc battles that screwed any change of amiga progress for years and years

Silly Billy is by far the worst thing that ever happened to AMIGA, period.
He is the root of all the slimeball amiga grave robbing scams since commodore went under.