Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
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Yasu wrote:
I doubt they will go bankrupt. Trevor doesn't do it for the money. It seems that he don't mind losing the money invested either. I bet he want as much of it back as possible, but if nothing comes out of it except for a little fun I think he is satisfied.
A-Eon is a registered Limited company. Granted that probably means different than I am used to in the US, but it is not something that Trevor is simply going to throw money at forever.
According to the
latest filing, A-Eon has £86,381 in the bank and £673,447 in short term debt which is coming due in the coming couple months. I strongly doubt sales of 3D drivers and a few games on AmiStore will be enough to service that debt. A-Eon's hands may be tied by HYPErion, they don't seem to want to release the hardware until OS4.1 is done and development appears from the outside to be halted.
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Andreas_Wolf wrote:
From the point of view of someone who calls the X5000 a 'boat anchor', imminent release, further delay or even entire cancellation won't make a difference as development time will have been wasted for porting either way.
I call it a boat anchor because it seems to have acted exactly as such. Development of OS4.X has come to a screeching halt, just like a boat tossing an anchor into the ocean. On the MorphOS side we hear that support of further PowerMac G5 models (PCIe) isn't proceeding due to focus elsewhere, which is likely X5000 work. Just speculating but makes sense. If the X5000 ends up being canceled, the work put into it sure has acted like a boat anchor IMO.
