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Archive 05/2017

`11.May.2017`	Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going on and filed for "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne" and the boingball logo roughly four weeks later. By now, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reacted to Hyperion's filings: All registrations have been refused. The application for the BoingBall logo was denied because it wasn't signed or dated - the Belgium based company has six months to correct that error. The other two applications - "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne" - were not signed either, but were addtionally refused (1, 2). due to a "likelihood of confusion": the USPTO deems them too close to Cloanto's "Amiga" mark. Again, Hyperion has six months to react to the refusal, by either objecting and argueing for a withdrawal of the refusal or by trying to register the mark for a class of products not related to computer hardware or software - which wouldn't make much sense in this particular case, obviously. In contrast to that, Cloanto's "Amiga" mark was published in the USPTO's "Trademark Official Gazette" yesterday. If no other party files an opposition or extension request within the next thirty days, the mark will be assigned to Cloanto for good. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 11. May. 2017, 00:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2017` Scene World Magazine (ANF)	Scene World Podcast 33: Interview with Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion) Issue 33 of the podcast Scene World offers an interview with Ron Gilbert, who was also responsible for the adventure classics like Maniac Mansion and recently released the point'n click adventure Thimbleweed Park. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2017, 22:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2017`	Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User" In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2017, 22:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2017`	Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, version 3.7 now offers Youtube streaming. Upon request of amiga.news.de, Artur Jarosik explained: "This is RTG classic version, I may compile AGA version and put it on my website soon." That means that for the current version a graphics card is required. Changes: reduce cpu usage by 7-10mips hide annoying console windows when playing modules.pl mods fixed and improved youtube playback. Better video quality (uses ffmpeg now), shorter conversion time New API key needed from cloudconvert.com fixed cda.pl playback fixed youtube playback NEW autoupdate NEW youtube streaming NEW information about convertion status faster htpps loading with asm optimised libssl (Chris Young) fix compatability on FPU systems (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2017, 22:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.May.2017` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment) Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported). But Hyperion is not "worried by this" because they "expect that Amiga Inc. or its shareholders will renew the trademarks". (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:59] [Comments: 1 - 09. May. 2017, 14:16] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.May.2017` Amiga.org (Webseite)	Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software as well as the Amiga Ireland Podcast. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.May.2017` AROS-Exec (Forum)	AROS: A week in AROS (from 02.05.2017) Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week: autodocs/webpage updated/fixed (mazze) Posixc.library enhancements (Kalamatee) work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee) adapt network driver code to recent utility.library changes (neil) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.May.2017` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.5 Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.5. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.5 is Unicode support if Hollywood 7 is available. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.5 has its executable size reduced by about 80kb, contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI features. MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (x86). The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system. All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI! Screenshots: (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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