> Petro Tyschtschenko has been selling A1200s from a stash he apparently found
> in India (I believe).

Yes, a former business partner from India Petro sold A1200 machines to during his Amiga days contacted Petro about the unsalable stock remains and asked him whether he should trash them or Petro wants to redeem them.

Btw, this is how this stock arrived in India, according to Bill McEwen:

"A portion of the Amiga operational budget came from the sale of the existing Amiga hardware and operations and we expected those revenues to help us stretch the initial funding so that we had time to properly get to the second round of funding for Amiga which was always planned. Think of my surprise when I learned that all of our inventory was sold for $75,000.00 to a company in India, when we were generating more than that on a monthly basis. This created a big operational hole for the company and caused us great harm in our ability to move forward. This hardware was not even put up for bid or auction, and nobody was consulted in the process."
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=499442

There are more details to this story told in an email exchange between Bill McEwen and Olaf "Olsen" Barthel, publicly documented as part of the Amiga Inc. vs. Hyperion court case filings.

> He's even signed a few.

AFAIK he has signed all of them. And you can read on the forums about many purchasers trying to wash his signature off again ;-)

> While I'm not a big fan of Hyperion, at least they are selling something.

Amiga Inc. is also selling something, as much as 26 products:

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/21741/?lang=en

> if we go ARM and Hyperion continues with PPC [...] there would be Amigoid OS'
> running on X86, PPC, and ARM.

AROS is already on ARM (and also on PPC to some extent).

> I now longer support jettisoning legacy compatibility. After all, if we support
> the 3.1 API, we ought to support legacy code.

MorphOS on ARM (or x86) would most likely not have transparent m68k (or PPC) emulation:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=8369&start=81

That's why the MorphOS Team would most likely use that opportunity to improve upon the 3.1 API through to a more modern but incompatible one.