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Dave Haynie - formerly Merlancia's CT0 - Chief Technology Officer
Merlancia Open Letter, New location and more. : Comment 15 of 20
Posted by Dave Haynie (209.66.33.185) on 08-Nov-2002 18:24:57
In Reply to Comment 14:
> What? if you are replying to comment number 9, I hope you do not think
that > Merlancia staff posted that rubbish.
However, it's entirely true. The only Merlancia building was the
strip-mall store featured in those pictures. If you know me, you know I'd
rather break a leg than tell a lie. But you don't even need to believe me.
Go to the old Merlancia address (3516A West Cactus Road, Phoenix AZ) and
see what's there.
> Considering the fact that we kept Amiga, inc alive by giving them loans
The only loan to Amiga was the deal that Skal Loret and I put together,
with Amniga, Inc. while working at Merlancia. If not for us, there would
have not been a deal -- and a deal it was, largely unfulfilled, because
Merlancia was not even remotely serious about product development. There
is no one in Merlancia with anything beyond a high-school education, and
certainly no engineers.
We were not paid for our work
(and still haven't been, though we did stike a deal with Merlancia that
may, ultimately, buy some of our silence... but time is running out).
In my experience, as an employee and supposed friend of the princpals of
Merlancia, I was never told a single true thing about Merlancia. Not once.
I would suggest, those of you in the general populace, shouldn't hold your
breath waiting for better treatment. I don't want to re-ignite a war of
words here, but I'm also not going to stand by and see more Amiga fans
taken in by truely evil people.
Your pal Dave
Merely Curious
From:hazydave
Subject : Re: Merlancia.com server changes.
Posted : 2003/1/1 21:49
> Yes, give the engineers a bag of cash, and you still get nothing. Pay
them 10 grand a month to sit on their arses and play their little games.
Just don't expect them to produce haineything useful.
Well, Ryan, no, you don't get a new ground-up design in two months. That's
how long it went before you stropped paying, and even at that, I had to
fight with you to get paid. You never paid anyone else, period.
As a child without any engineering experience (did you even graduate High
School?), I can't expect you to understand that it takes about a year, give
or take, to move from idea to product, and that's with a properly funded
engineering department.
When you claimed to have a $650,000 budget (on the Amiga, Inc. trip,
that's what you told Bill), the project we had started seemed doable, if
not necesarily wise. But hey, your company, your money, all I can do is
advise. Obviously, were the truth known, none of us would have given you
the time of day. But we're all honest folks -- we don't expect to be lied
to, cheated, and decieved. Merlancia as you sold it to me was a
total fraud. Still is. You know
it, I know it. Now they all know it, or at least the few who still fall for
your tall tales.
-Dave
Subject : Re: Merlancia.com server changes.
Posted : 2003/1/1 21:37
> The only people that ever did anything for the Amiga after buying the
company were Commodore's engineering department.
Well, I don't know if that's stictly true, but thanks for the mention of
us. It's pretty clear that things haven't gone well since the end of
Commodore. In some cases, there was genuine intent. I consulted for Amiga
Technologies, who really did want to bring the Amiga back, at a time it
would have been practical. Unfortunately, ESCOM was killing themselves
just as we were trying to get things off the ground.
> Unless someone can get some of these engineers together and give them a
bag of cash, then the Amiga is lost forever,
Well, I had hoped to do that when I worked for Merlancia. Unfortunately, I
found the company run by a child,
who's sadly a pathological liar,
and his angry mother. They had no experience in engineering, there was
nothing being done in engineering at Merlancia, despite all the pretty
pictures and stories on the web site, and they had no money or real
intention of building an engineering company. Which is a hard enough thing
to do when there is money, impossible when
no one's being paid.
I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation at
Merlancia today, but I doubt very much it's any different. Sure, they can
OEM the same motherboards any of us could, but that an engineering company
does not make. These are not simply incompetents,
they are criminals. Stay away from
them and anything they do, if you value your hard-earned money.
> and computers in general will never evolve from the archaic idea that the
proccessor should do all the work.
They pretty much did in the 1990s. The graphics chip in most computers
today does 3D coordinate transforms (and other operations) dramatically
faster than the CPU could do (on the order of 25x faster, last I checked,
and it's been awhile). They use DMA for everything the Amiga did (and
more; most graphics chips can access main memory directly), they autoconfig
(some of the software still needs work), they have audio processing itself
more powerful than a room full of Amiga 1200s, etc.
Could they do more? Sure. Will they? Not on the C= agenda, sure. Look
up "Acutiator" on http://www.thule.no/haynie if you want to see what I was
trying to do 8-9 years ago, in that regard. But really, it's not the
hardware that's the problem, it hasn't been for some time.
You pal,
-Dave