Hello Chris,
My God, I never knew how dismal it was... I have
always felt
that you must do what is necissary to survive. I'm
just surprised
that you folks were gutsy enough to use the same
"company" name-
you should have known there were some folks that go
ballistic. ;)
I don't care where you can get some $$$, but I do
ask that you
weather the storm as long as you can. That, and I'll
buy NCIII - as
soon as it's available.
Sorry about not snipping some of your text, but I
seem to have a bit
of a problem with Voyager.. However, I'll compose a
new mail for that.
-Dave-
--- Chris Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Just wondered how you can go and release
> MicroDot-II on
> > the PC when the Amiga version isn't even fixed of
> all the blimmin'
> > bugs yet! Can't that have priority to the people
> who have already
> > paid for it?
>
> You know the state of the Amiga market (ie. via your
> 'Learn to Drive'
> project/CD, or whatever it is called), so we *have*
> to look at other things
> to keep us in business.
>
> Yes, that's right: IN BUSINESS.
>
> I've never known a market so quiet/dead/finished.
> The last 2-3 months are
> crippling us, and that is not a joke. For instance,
> May was the quietest
> month we've had since October 1996. Sales were 50%
> (!) lower than the
> average month.
>
> June is no better and I doubt July nor August nor
> September will be either.
>
> So, how do we 'stay in business' when no-one is
> buying anything? An example:
>
> a) from 18th May until 17th of June we did not sell
> one (standalone) copy of
> STFax!
>
> b) from early May until today, we've only sold 9
> copies of (standalone)
> NetConnect
>
> c) in the entire month of May, we sold only 20 modem
> packs
>
> If you do your own calculations, you can see that is
> a devastingly dead
> market. The above sales don't even pay for the
> advertising, never mind other
> costs and me actually making a wage to actually sit
> here and:
>
> a) answer all the support calls all day
>
> b) bother to manage the NC v3 and other (Amiga)
> projects
>
> > And yes I *do* realise it is not *yet* available
> but as it's mentioned
> > on the website it must be in some state of
> development?
>
> 1. Who said anything about 'Microdot-II'?
>
> 2. Who said that our Amiga coders, like Olli, are
> coding it?
>
> 3. Who the hell said we are 'giving up' or 'stopped'
> developing Amiga
> software or even slowed down?
>
> 4. Lastly, what the hell is the problem?
>
> If anything, this really annoys me and makes me more
> determined *not* to
> work on new software products for the (small and
> really dead) Amiga market.
>
> It's amazing. If any PC software development company
> decided to produce some
> software for the Amiga market, people would be
> rejoicing and saying 'wow
> wow!'. If a small (almost dead) Amiga company
> decides to try and save
> itself, by producing a title that perhaps might sell
> more than 10 copies a
> month, Amiga users go ballistic.
>
> Chris.
>
> Active Technologies - Chris Wiles [Managing
> Director]
> http://www.active-net.co.uk
> Tel: +44 (0)1325 460116 [9-6 Mon-Fri, 10-5 Sat]
> Fax: +44 (0)1325 460117
>
>
>
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