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`08.Aug.2018`	Hyperion added back to Belgium's company register In October 2017 Hyperion was forcibly removed from Belgium's official company register (KBO, Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen) for failing to file annual reports for each fiscal year with the 'Central Balance Sheet Office' of the Belgian National Bank. Hyperion has now filed these missing reports, which means they're listed as a regular company again. According to the reports now filed (PDF: 2015, 2016, 2017), Hyperion's main assets are unidentified "intangible assets" listed with a value of about 110.000 Euro in 2015. Due to write-downs of about 36.000 Euros in every fiscal year, this property will be valued slightly above 1000 Euros at the end of 2018. The other side of the balance lists debts of nearly 600.000 Euro, of which about 90% are short term loans - "op ten hoogste één jaar", which translates to: "payable within a year". All three reports since Hyperion's temporary bankruptcy in February 2015 show a negative income. Note from the staff: The original versions of the PDF files linked above can be found at the Central Balance Sheet of the National Bank of Belgium by searching for company number 0466.380.552. As far as we can tell, these reports do not have to be verified by an independent entity. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 08. Aug. 2018, 22:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	AROS: Icaros Desktop 2.2.3 available for patrons Just like the previous version, Icaros Desktop 2.2.3 also is only available for financial patrons of this AROS distribution. A public version was released about one-and-a-half months later. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. Aug. 2018, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2018`	Trevor Dickinson accusing Ben Hermans of criminal behaviour (Update) In April 2009, a company called A-EON Technology was established in Belgium, to develop PPC hardware for AmigaOS 4. Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans were named directors for the new entity. This incarnation of A-EON didn't last long though - a new company called A-EON Technology Ltd. located in Wales took over in Spring 2012 and has been responsible for the "AmigaOne X1000" and other A-EON products ever since. This change was never communicated or explained to the public. Behind the scenes, rumours started circulating years ago that the Belgium based A-EON was dismantled because one of the partners stole large parts of the company's funds and tried to hide that fact from the other directors by sending them faked bank statements. An audio recording that has now been released on Youtube, allegedly featuring Trevor Dickinson, seems to confirm at least parts of this rumour: In what sounds like a private conversation, the narrator - his voice is the only one recorded - relates the following: "[…] Money dissappearing to Hyperion and to Ben Hermans […] I mean, at the very least, you could put him out of business – I mean, with his law firm – cause I got the copies of the stuff he sent… faxed to me […] He was denying, denying, denying – and then it turned on a meeting where we were saying: 'This is it – you either sign this. Or we‘re going to the police'. So, I mean… and so we went through a whole bunch of things: free license, free this, free that, access to this, use of that, no royalties... so we got all out of it." Parts of the recording have been obviously cut out, these cuts are marked with "[…]" in the above transscript. People who want to verify if the recorded voice really is that of Trevor Dicksinson can find quite some Youtube videos featuring the A-EON investor - like this 2017 speech. The recording was released to the public by Generation Amiga, a site that has a tendency to publish badly researched, exaggerated or plain wrong news items. But amiga-news.de can confirm that this is not the original source, apparently the site's administrator was less concerned about keeping this under wraps than other parties we know about that also had access to the file. Notes from the staff: Assuming the person making these statements is indeed Trevor Dickinson, he's clearly accusing Ben Hermans of criminal behaviour. While the actual details of Hermans' actions are not explained in the part of the recording that has now been made public, Dickinson's wording about "calling the police" or the notion that Hermans could lose his job or his licence for practicing law make this quite clear. But at the same time, Dickinson is incriminating himself: The statement that Ben Hermans was forced to sign a contract that gives Dickinson and his partners free access to a lot of Hyperion's property and licenses basically equals an admission of blackmailing Mr. Hermans. Not to mention that this contract presumably would mostly hurt the company Hyperion - by obliterating most of their sources of income, for example - while Dickinson's description suggests that only the person Ben Hermans seems to be responsible for A-EON's problems. Update: (11.08.2018, 14:00, cg) Amiga Future has approached both Trevor Dickinson und Ben Hermans for statements. Both parties stress that A-EON is paying the full price for each copy of AmigaOS 4 it ships: Trevor Dickinson: "A-EON Technology does have a worldwide sub-license granted by Hyperion Entertainment to use the AmigaOne name, AmigaOS name and Boing Ball on products it develops for AmigaOS4. However, A-EON Technology has to make significant payments to Hyperion Entertainment to port AmigaOS4 to the AmigaOne hardware it produces. This includes payments for porting the kernel, writing any necessary drivers and/or other special utilities that may be required to make OS4 run on A-EON's AmigaOne hardware. As Matthew Leaman wrote on AmigaWorld net, A-EON Technology also pre-pays (in batches) the significant cost of full software licence to Hyperion Entertainment for its AmigaOne machines (X1000, X5000 and the A1222 beta). Every AmigaOne machine A-EON ships has an AmigaOS4 software license pre-paid to Hyperion Entertainment at the full license price, not the special reduced sales price which Hyperion charged customers for the AmigaOS4 Final Edition release. A-EON is prevented from disclosing the full license price by the terms of its Agreements with Hyperion Entertainment but suffice to say it is far greater that the special one-off AmigaOS4 Final Edition sales price." Ben Hermans: "That is true, A-EON does pay for licenses which we negotiated." (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 06. Aug. 2018, 12:34] [Comments: 5 - 11. Apr. 2021, 07:35] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2018`	Aminet-Uploads until 04.08.2018 The following archives have been added to the Aminet until August 4th, 2018: myCatalog.zip biz/dbase 8.6M MOS Manage your favorite collections dizzytorrent1.06.lha comm/tcp 489K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client w... bzh-ghb.lha demo/aga 4.2M 68k An AGA 060 demo from Solskoge... crapcrunch.zip demo/euro 160K 68k A demo from Deucrunch 2018 thanktro_vs8.lha demo/euro 29K 68k A thanktro from Nukleus bg_intro.zip demo/intro 206K 68k An intro from Posadas 2018 gng-jungle.zip demo/intro 43K 68k 64KB intro for Solskogen 2018 trotc.zip demo/intro 39K 68k An intro from Posadas 2018 altair-604.zip demo/mega 320K 68k Winner demo from Decrunch 2018 dosgv.lha dev/misc 27K 68k Usage of (BCPL based) DOS glo... pfssalv2.lha disk/salv 31K 68k Save files from damaged PFS2/... RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 31K 68k Search lost PFS/SFS partition... mhimpegit.lha driver/aud 1K 68k MHI driver for Prelude/MPEGit... PrlLib.lha driver/aud 13K 68k Driver library for Prelude so... KCMunchkinCD32.lha game/actio 204K 68k Port of G7000 game K C Munchkin WormWars.lha game/actio 827K 68k Advanced snake game WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 867K MOS Advanced snake game WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake game MCE.lha game/edit 1.9M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.1M MOS Multi-game Character Editor MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.3M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor Elfie_The_Unicorn_Fin... game/jump 880K 68k Platform Game (Bootable Disk) FlappyBirdCD32.lha game/jump 150K 68k Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile ... Dune_Greek.lha game/patch 53K 68k Translates Dune to Greek bsaog.lha game/shoot 793K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold bsps.lha game/shoot 198K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike AIBOT_AOS3.zip game/think 16M 68k Educational game to teach coding AIBOT_AOS4.zip game/think 17M OS4 Educational game to teach coding AIBOT_AROS.zip game/think 17M x86 Educational game to teach coding AIBOT_MorphOS.zip game/think 16M MOS Educational game to teach coding Boxie.lha gfx/misc 72K 68k Simply, a old-school gfx demo... VPDF_de.lha gfx/show 1K Unofficial German catalog for... AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... ebMuse.lha mus/play 4.8M 68k Audio device 8SVX and AIFF so... cabextract.lha util/arc 33K 68k Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C... cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 47K MOS Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C... cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 37K OS4 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C... RTF-Riddle.lha util/conv 229K MOS Rich Text Format to HTML5 con... UniLibDev.lha util/libs 416K MOS Unicode code point/UTF-8 supp... ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 599K MOS Multipurpose utility Polluks1.png util/time 34K Alternative clock face for Mo... Polluks2.png util/time 32K Alternative clock face for Mo... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2018, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2018`	OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.08.2018 The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until August 4th, 2018: playmate.lha aud/mis 190kb 4.0 General purpose instrument tuner... guiforidltool.lha dev/gui 109kb 4.1 GUI for IDLTool command arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor mountsmbfs.lha net/ser 40kb 4.1 GUI for SMBFS mycatalog.zip off/dat 9Mb 4.0 Manage your favorite collections reportplus.lha uti/mis 687kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2018, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2018`	MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.08.2018 The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until August 4th, 2018: determ_1.0.lha Communication Simple terminal for debug. Fotochop_mcc_0.15.lha Development/MUI A painting and image ed... Iris_beta33.lha Email Google_Accounts_Fix.lha AmiArcadia_24.8.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... WHDLOpener_1.0.lha Emulation E-UAE/WHDLoad integrati... cabextract_1.7.lha Files/Archive Tool to extract Microso... WormWars_9.11.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ... MCE_10.41.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... Frogatto_1.3.1_data.zip Games/Platform Data files of an old-sc... Frogatto_1.3.1_exe.lha Games/Platform Execuatble file of an o... Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha Games/Platform A Jump'n'Run game. AIBOT_1.0.zip Games/Think An Educational game to ... ReportPlus_7.5.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ... Google_Accounts_Fix.lha Network/Web/Odyssey sc... A script for Odyssey to... UniLibDev_10.21.lha System/Library/Misc Unicode code point/UTF-... myCatalog_3.1.lha Office/Database Manage your favorite co... Clock_Standard.image System/Ambient/Utiliti... Alternative clock face ... Clock_Standard_2.image System/Ambient/Utiliti... Alternative clock face ... RTF-Riddle_3.97.lha Text/Convert Rich Text Format to HTM... AminetReadmeMaker_1.2.lha Text/Edit Easy creation & upload ... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2018, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2018`	WHDLoad: New installers until 04.08.2018 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 installers have been added until August 4th, 2018: 2018-07-31 improved: Street Rod 2 (California Dreams) joystick problems fixed (CIAA ddra settings) (Info) 2018-07-31 improved: Street Rod (California Dreams) joystick problems fixed (CIAA ddra settings) (Info) 2018-07-25 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) music wasn't replayed properly in main menu, CUSTOM3 option added to run the "No Extra Memory Found" part (Info) 2018-07-24 updated: Alien Breed (Team 17) patch redone, much cleaner decryption, high-score load/save, default quitkey changed to F10, new install script, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, interrupts and SMC fixed, "efford" typo fixed, quitkey works everywhere in game now, lots of trainers added (Info) 2018-07-22 fixed: Zombie Apocalypse 2 (Vision Software) sound problem fixed on fast machine, QuitKey added (Info) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2018, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	AmigaRemix: New songs added AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added: Torvak the Warrior - Level 1 (Axe & Bow mix) Chuck Rock Theme (REVISITED) Shadow of the Beast (Guitar Edit) Amegas Vibe the Pipe (plus Rockpart) Turrican 2 (Krazy Metal Head) Stormlord (Psychedelic Trance Remix) Enchanted Land Intro Pinball Dreams (Beatbox Remix) Xenon (Ready Player 1) Lethal Weapon Level 1 Speedball 2 Industrial Remix Echoing (Remix) Turrican II Level 1 The Desert Rocks Remix Gods - Into the Wonderful Hybris Title Music (2018 Chill-out Remix) Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge - Track 3 (Krull0r remix) Ghouls'n Ghosts - Continue Turrican - Techno Dungeon (Level 2-2) Wings of Death (Stage 1 - Sagyr's Castle) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2018, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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