1. We want the Pegasos to be successful.
2. We are promoting the product to various markets that have demand for PowerPC-based hardware.
3. We want bPlan to miniaturize the Pegasos to make the eclipsis.
4. We think MorphOS is a unique and a well engineered OS.
5. We want the Pegasos to become the development machine for the eclipsis.

ViCaDo (Video-Can-Do) is in the betaphase. More information is available right here (German.)

AiCaDo (Audio-Can-Do) is in the alphaphase.

DiCaDo (Data-Can-Do) is in the alphaphase.

In the course of working on this program pack a couple of small, helpful tools were created, and I don't wish to keep them from Amiga users.

GetMpegInfo can provide information about mpeg streams.(Video-, Audio- und System-Streams). With shell- and Workbench-versions.

• Samba: MacOS X dances with Amiga
• Locked together: PGP and Amiga

I want to have it!
That's not possible right now, unfortunately. I explained the license problems in the statement. However I hope to have a new, improved, and completely licensed version available soon.

And when will that be for sale?
Hopefully very soon, after the unhappy stuff is cleared up.

Does Amiga Inc. want to publish it?
Yeah, they want to. Things have changed. Nobody is happy about it, least of all me. Amithlon was always meant to be a complete solution, with fully licensed ROMs and AmigaOS. Haage & Partner apparently didn't share this position, but I am personally not ready to compromise in this regard.

Observation of amiga-news.de:
Until now we have just heard one side of the story, so we asked H&P about this sticky wicket. Unfortunately it's not possible for H&P to speak because the signed contracts between Bernie Meyer, Harald Frank (VMC) und H&P clearly state these internal matters not be discussed publicly.

At first it has been planned to release the German version of Amiblitz for this reason. But due to lack of time this will likely not happen before next week. The editor PED has taken more time than initially thought. The planned bonus tracks will be a bit late on schedule as well. All that might be finished within the next days. That time also courses and tutorials will start.

The rest of Amiforce will be updated as well. For this the soft guide category will be opened. The start is with OpenAG. Later this client and AmiComSys + HL_Plugin too will be discribed in helpguide. Unfortunately this takes it´s time.

And here I want to thank all those people who supported me all that time.

• 16.04.02 new: Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft) done by Psygore
• 15.04.02 improved: Treasure Island Dizzy (Code Masters) support for CD³² version added, minor other changes
• 15.04.02 improved: Qwak (Team 17) support for CD³² version added
• 15.04.02 updated: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) reworked
• 15.04.02 new: Mean Streets (U.S.Gold) done by Bored Seal
• 15.04.02 new: Executioner (Codetapper) done by Codetapper
• 15.04.02 updated: Chuckie Egg 2 (Pick and Choose) image provided by Nigel Alderton
• 15.04.02 updated: Chuckie Egg (Pick and Choose) image provided by Nigel Alderton
• 15.04.02 new: Castles (Interplay) done by JOTD & Bored Seal
• 15.04.02 improved: Castle Vania (Konami) manual protection removed
• 15.04.02 improved: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) support for Amiga Format 13 Demo added

As most people here will realise we have always declared that we want to use the official Amiga OS and for Hyperion and Amiga to have their just rewards for licencing the AmigaOne and OS4 products. We are not the only possible licencees, but I guess that we committed to these conditions before anyone else. As a result we have worked in very close cooperation with both Amiga Inc and Hyperion throughout the A1 development program to ensure that piracy of OS4 is kept to a minimum. Jointly we have worked out that the best way to do this is :..."

- To put ROM extensions (ie dongle code) in the boot ROM, in addition to the regular boot code.

- To put this in hard-coded, socketed ROM at a specific address in the PPC memory map, rather than in Flash ROM, which could easily be pirated/updated

- To ensure that OS4 calls this code from multiple points to make workround patches difficult to implement

- To ensure that a copy of OS4 is sold with all hardware capable of running it (ie with the dongle code in ROM)

- To use similar routines that already exist in the 3.1 Kickstart ROM as an alternative for the PPC accelerator implementations.

Although a dedicated pirate could no doubt copy the boot code and dupe the ROM's, unless this was to be done in bulk - which would be easy to spot and close down - the overheads involved versus buying the ROM would mean few people would be likely to do it. The situation is analagous to OS3.1/3.5/3.9 in that you had to have/buy 3.1 ROMs to run the OS, unless you go to extraordinary work-around lengths.

We are producing all the developer/dealer boards and at least the first run of user boards with this dongle code in place in the ROM - and therefore the obligation to purchase OS4 with them. (They can of course be used to run Linux, but you will still need to buy OS4 with these boards). If there is sufficient demand from the Linux comunity we will probably then produce some boards without the AmigaOne name (and without the dongle code needed for booting OS4). In this case we will also make available an OS4 + ROM upgrade pack (similar to the OS3.5/3.9 +3.1ROMs upgrade packs sold by most Amiga Dealers) to purchasers of the Linux-only boards wishing to upgrade to OS4.

As far as other licenced stand-alone ppc hardware is concerned, it would, in my view, need to support a similar protection format (ie socketed hard coded ROM, not Flash ROM) to embody the same level of anti-piracy protection as The A1G3-SE. Whether, in the specific cases of other hardware manufacturers, this socketed ROM has already been implemented, or remains an option, or requires a partial redesign of the hardware is not something that I have any knowledge of. It is between Amiga Inc and the potential licencees concerned.

This tight anti-piracy regime has obviously upset some individuals on the mailing lists who clearly did not expect to have to pay for OS4, or hoped to buy unapproved/unlicenced PPC Linux boards to save a few bucks. Well tough, we dont want your business under those circumstances and will do all in our power to make sure that if you buy one of our boards for Linux-only use you will not be able to use it for running OS4+ unless you are prepared to pay Hyperion and Amiga Inc their proper licence fees.

And I'm sure that all other potential serious licencees of endorsed Amiga hardware will see it this way too."

For a long time these have been available only as limited demo versions. From now on all these four games ar free for download without restrictions.

Except Defender all games are running multitasking, also with four players at the same time, which is possible with the 4 player adaptor for the parallel port.

• The Ascon Files: On the Ball, On the Ball - Worldcup Edition, The Patrician. Price: 3 Euro.
• The Amiga Demo Collection: More than 620mb of demos, alphabetic sorted. Price: 3 Euro.
• Monstro contains more than 500 mb of mods and other formats. Price: 3 Euro.
• The digital album "Brasil" 2.5 is an electronic journey thruogh that country, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia, Porto Alegre, ... Further there are backdrops for the Workbench and two audiotracks included. Price: 8 Euro.
• Eclipse Solar is FOM's the new music CD. Among other there are soundtracks of Amiga projects included, e.g. The Deathbird or Brave New World: Price: 8 Euro.