Amiga? You’re kidding, right?
If this story had come out 24 days ago, I’d have called it an April Fool’s hoax, today’s story from ExtremeTech, “New Amigas On The Way, Company Says.“
The story reads,
Virtually nothing was released as far as the new designs were concerned, other than the PCs will be based on the PowerPC architecture and hit two price points with two different machines: one selling for $500, and the other for $1,500. Amiga Inc. said this week that the first Amiga computers since the 1990s are “on its way”.
The company’s Web site adds that, “After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users,” but doesn’t say much else.
Gosh. The Amiga… the dead platform that generates emotional responses even stronger than that of OS/2 users… back from the dead.
As things turned out, it’s all a hoax. ACK Software Controls never delivered on their promised “developer systems”, and in fact ACK has been caught red-handed scamming people by taking in AmigaOne boards for repair, along with over $500 in payment, and then never sending the boards back while saying things like “They will ship tomorrow”.