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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZStatement from Carl Sassenrath (ex-Viscorp)
- about the non-existant Viscorp activity.
- Don't expect anything to happen from them!@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
- subj: From Carl Sassenrath
- from: carl@sassenrath.com
- orgz: Pacific Internet
- on : Wed 13-Nov-1996 7:50p
-
- Dear Amigans,
-
- Many of you have been wondering what's happening with VIScorp,
- the Amiga, and why my name is no longer on the vistv web site.
-
- I hope this is not too long-winded for you, but here is a
- brief summary of my story:
-
- 1. I joined VIScorp about a year ago as a consultant to help
- them create new system software for the Amiga. I believed
- at that time that they had the ability to take the Amiga
- into several new, huge markets around the world. They
- made many promises to me in order to get me to join
- the project.
-
- 2. In March 1996 VIScorp informed me that they planned to buy
- Amiga Technologies. The reason was simple: for the vast
- quantities of Amigas that they planned, it was cheaper to
- buy AT then to pay the royalty. It seemed to me that this
- could work, if they could come up with the money.
-
- 3. Over the months that followed, I made numerous suggestions
- to VIScorp regarding what they needed to do to support and
- further improve the Amiga. I even proposed a business plan
- centered around the Amiga, as it seemed to me that you CAN
- have an ALTERNATE computer for people who don't want PCs.
- After all, what would our cars be like if only one company
- produced them? The Amiga offered us a choice.
-
- 4. VIScorp never responded to my suggestions. Not once.
- In fact, they kept me totally in the dark as to what they
- were doing and what progress had been made on the AT deal.
- I never knew from day to day what was going to happen next.
-
- 5. By August I was starting to tire of VIScorp and its unkept
- promises to all of us. They were 110 days behind in paying
- me, and I was very disappointed in the whole mess that they
- had brought on the Amiga community, developers and dealers,
- and myself. It had become clear to me that VIScorp was
- not competent. I took a couple weeks off and went to
- Florida.
-
- 6. In September I tried to recruit RJ Mical to join the team.
- I put a lot of energy into it, as RJ was skeptical of VIScorp.
- I finally succeeded! Then, VIScorp blew him off. RJ and I
- couldn't believe it. What were they doing?
-
- 7. Finally, I decided to focus 100% on what they had
- originally hired me for: to create a TV set-top Amiga.
- Perhaps if we could build a good demo, VIScorp could
- convince one of its investors to contribute extra cash.
- By the end of September, Don, Steve, Jim, and I had finished
- a dazzling prototype of such an STB. In my opinion, it
- really showed off what the Amiga could do as a STB. The
- software for it was entirely written by Jim and I, because
- VIScorp had not been paying any of the other contractors.
-
- 8. After delivering the prototype, I never heard a word back.
- VIScorp was again far behind in payments. What were they
- doing? What had gone wrong? What was next?
-
- 9. Whatever it was, I didn't want to be part of it any longer.
- I've never seen such an idiotic, screwed-up, incompetent
- company (and I am saying it mildly). VIScorp was worse
- than Commodore, and I never thought that was possible.
- I took my name off the web site, vowing not to be a part
- of this lunacy.
-
- So what can I say? Please don't flame me for doing this.
- I refuse to be part of such a sloppy situation, regardless
- of my love for the Amiga. Over the last 10 months I have
- heard from many of you, and have sent nearly 1500 personal
- email replies to you. All I can say is that I am sorry that
- I could not do more for you and our Amiga Computer.
-
- I am unsure what the future holds for the Amiga. Perhaps
- VIScorp or some other company will scrape together enough
- cash to make the AT purchase. We can only hope.
-
- As for my future, I am going to return to what I do best:
- operating systems and languages. You have not heard the
- last from me. I can imagine a system much better than the
- Amiga.... now to create it. Truely, only time will tell.
-
- Stay in touch my friends.
-
- Sincerely yours,
-
- Carl Sassenrath
- Ex-VIScorp OS Guy
- carl@sassenrath.com
-
- Permission granted to copy and repost.
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