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| 31.Dec.2017 (ANF) |
Legal dispute: a Statement by Hyperion and an open letter from two developers At the end of 2016, Amiga Inc.'s US registration of the "Amiga" trademark expired, which ultimately led to Hyperion and Cloanto competing for various Amiga marks on two different continents. The conflict resulted in Cloanto suing Hyperion in the US for trademark infringement and copyright violations recently. Hyperion now reacts to the lawsuit becoming public with a press release, expressing regret that Cloanto decided to go that way, forcing Hyperion to "once again redirect substantial resources away from development to litigation" and claiming to be "perplexed" by Cloantos litigation, given that the Italian Company distributed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition "for many months". Hyperion states it still maintains that all their actions are covered by their settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc. Meanwhile, Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel, who are working on a recently announced update to AmigaOS 3.1 on behalf of Hyperion, released an open letter addressing both parties. On behalf of "your fellow Amiga community", they're aksing both companies to rethink their strategies, since it does irreparable harm to their biggest assets - the enthusiastic Amiga fans: Open Letter to Cloanto Italy SRL Udine, and Hyperion Entertainment CVBA, Brussels Fellow Amiga copyright owners and licence holders, we recently became aware of another lawsuit concerning potential trademark and copyright violations between your two companies, and we are distressed to witness another round of legal action in the aftermath of the Amiga’s slow decline as a business. It is understood that both of you want to protect your assets and secure your corresponding business models, but at what cost? May we invite you, however, to take a step back as we provide our analysis of what establishes your assets? While you may be certain that you have control over the Amiga trademarks, the AmigaOS source code, the ROM images and the contents of the Workbench disks, these assets only establish the respective legal and technical grounds on which you can run your businesses. The reason why your companies are able to do Amiga-business is due to us, the users, the fans, the software and hardware developers and Amiga experts - the few who are still around and who keep driving the system, by buying your products, by developing software and hardware in our own spare time, by providing support in our spare time, and by keeping the community alive. Your products, copyrights and trademarks would be void if it were not for the countless people who support a product which, from a purely technical perspective, has long lost its shine and appeal. We, the users, developers and fans, are also your customers. And as such, we are very concerned to witness how you invest time and effort into lawsuits, which would be much better spent on your users and your products. The market is still sufficiently diverse to support more than one company caring for the Amiga, but this would call for coexistance rather than a prolonged struggle for control. From the very beginning, “Amiga” stood for creativity and passion, but always in conjunction with both a wonderful machine and a fascinating operating system. These issues never had to be settled in court. We kindly ask you to consider the ramifications of each party having just enough legal leverage to frustrate the other party’s means to conduct its Amiga-business. The resulting stalemate has repercussions beyond this legal stand-off. The goodwill and the passion which sustain the Amiga are not bottomless. We are weary of having to witness how the results of our efforts, the countless hours of spare time we devoted, are diverted into lawsuits rather than productive work. We would ask of you to find the common ground which allows the both of you to do Amiga-business and not step on each other’s toes. You share more than what currently brings you into conflict, you certainly share the need for a sustainable Amiga market and the community which enables it. Your fellow Amiga Community (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 18:24] [Comments: 6 - 04. Jan. 2018, 14:06] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 Amigaworld.net (Webseite) |
PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 81 (Italian/English) The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers. Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Mega Phoenix", "Santa's Xmas Caper", "Xmas Lemmings 1991" and the demo maker "Demo Maniac V1.17". Download sites: Italian English (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 15:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail) |
Game: The Dream of Rowan (Update) After a developmental period of two years, the AMOS game "The Dream of Rowan" financed by crowdfunding is available as digital download. The disk version already is sold out. The jump'n'run game for ECS-Amigas equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM requires a 68030 processor with at least 16 MHz as well as a harddrive. Update: (10:37, 04.01.17, snx) As the developers rectify, the game has been paid by themselves since the crowdfunding campaign did not succeed. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 13:32] [Comments: 2 - 04. Jan. 2018, 10:47] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 |
Aminet-Uploads until 30.12.2017 The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 30th, 2017: dizzytorrent1.0b5.lha comm/tcp 1.8M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client gopher.lha comm/tcp 27K 68k Gopher client for AmiTCP gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 4.6M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO... ElseWeGetMad.lha game/2play 1.2M 68k new fight Amiga game for 1 or... ARLB.lha game/race 2.5M MOS Show AmigaRacer highscores in... CustJo2Songs.lha mods/cust 12K 2 Modules composed by Jesper ... CustJoAcon.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O... CustJoScrooge.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O... backupsongs.zip mods/kicko 1.2M Backup of my hdrec and TnF tunes DeliTracker234.lha mus/play 39K 68k module player, minor update AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K x86 Keep your time right pixman_lib.lha util/libs 294K OS4 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared... tzdev.lha util/time 691K Time Zone Database and Librar...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 |
OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.12.2017 The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 30th, 2017: amos2ascii.lha dev/lan 60kb 4.1 Convert AMOS token files to ASCII amosextension2ascii.lha dev/uti 60kb 4.1 This command designed to extract... pixman_lib.lha lib/gra 294kb 4.0 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared li... amosextension.library... lib/mis 376kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ... mplayer-mickjt.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 |
MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.12.2017 The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until December 30th, 2017: Envy24HT_5.15.lha Audio/Drivers Binary for Envy24HT AHI... BeebAsm_1.08.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr... mos2wos_0.2.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output... HWP_XAD_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for xa... HWP_ZIP_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Read and write ZIP arch... Vim_8.0.1422-src.lha Development/Sources A highly configurable t... AmiArcadia_24.66.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... UAEmremover_1.2.lha Emulation Remove junk files creat... Vim_8.0.1422.lha Files/Editor A highly configurable t... MCE_10.09.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... StoWaSta_0.8.lha Games/Misc A stop watch software. AmigaRacerLeaderBoard_... Games/Race Show AmigaRacer highsco... Chromium_0.9.16.1.zip Games/Shoot 2D A vertical scrolling Sh... CrispyDoom_4.3.lha Games/Shoot 3D Crispy Doom is a limit-... PushOver_0.0.5.lha Games/Think Port of PushOver 0.0.5 ... SlotMachineSAGA_WArMUp... Games/Think A slot machine game to ... GrafX2_2.5_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw A quick compilation of ... SacrificioPagano_1.30.lha Misc A special app to people... RNOWidgets_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... Desktop widgets applica... AutoVisible_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenb... All sbars visible on Au...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 31.Dec.2017 |
WHDLoad: New installers until 30.12.2017 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until December 30th, 2017:
[News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 30.Dec.2017 |
Upcoming games: Alco-Copter (demo) and Green Beret (video) In Alco-Copter developed by "Flashtro" you have to control a little helicopter. Now a playable demo version with six levels is available. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM. Another developer team called "Megastyle" currently is working on its first Amiga game: Green Beret (Youtube video) is supposed to become a port of the same-titled C64 classic game. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 30. Dec. 2017, 01:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 29.Dec.2017 |
Retro arcade action: Roadtrip and Quasarius On his website Rafael Lima has released ports of two classic arcade games: In Roadtrip written in only 12 days you have to find your way to the exit in time and to avoid vehicles and obstacles. Quasarius is a Space-Invaders clone.
Roadtrip requires 1 MB RAM. On computers equipped with OCS chipset it can cause graphic errors. Users of emulators should enable cycle-accurate emulation. Quasarius runs on every Amiga with at least 512 Kilobyte RAM. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 29. Dec. 2017, 21:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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