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`25.Dec.2019` A-EON Facebook website	A-EON Technology: Pre-order registration for the A1222 Early Adopter Motherboard In a press release only published on Facebook - the company's website is now even lacking all the old press releases from 2017 and earlier - A-EON is announcing its pre-order registration for the 'Early Adopter' motherboard of the A1222. Press release: A-EON A1222 Plus Limited Edition: pre-registration and special AAA bundle A-EON Technology is pleased to announce pre-order registration for the limited edition A1222 Plus Early Adopter motherboard. The Early Adopter release is based on the original Tabor motherboard which has been under extended beta test for the past four years. Due to obsolescence, several minor onboard components need to be replaced and A-EON, with assistance from its hardware developers, has commissioned the production of 100 motherboards for a limited manufacturing run. Hyperion Entertainment's developer & beta test teams are working on the updated AmigaOS 4.1 distribution, while the ExecSG team is optimising kernel performance for the A1222 Plus. Each Early Adopter system will include a full AmigaOS 4.1 EA digital licence supplied by Hyperion Entertainment and have access to regular file and driver updates as soon as they become available. The A1222 Plus Early Adopter limited edition is available at a special low price of: GBÂ£ 350, â¬400 or US$ 450. Triple-A fun for all* Building on Commodore's bundling tradition, A-EON Technology is releasing a special AAA pack to celebrate the A1222 Plus Early Adopter release. The AAA pack will include: The new Enhancer Software V2.0 from A-EON Technology "Amiga.org" mouse & mouse mat "Personal Paint" for AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k "ImageFX" for AmigaOS 3.x A specially commissioned "AmigaSYS 35th Anniversary Edition" Digital copy of the "Viva Amiga Extended Remix" movie as soon as it is released Special "AAA display box" An "A1222 Early Adopter certificate" (see option 1) The AAA bundle is priced at: GBÂ£ 100, â¬115 or US$ 128* (* plus postage and packing). Securing your Limited Edition A1222 Early Adopter motherboard To pre-register for the special Early Adapter package you have two options: Option 1: AAA bundle purchase Purchasing the AAA bundle will automatically reserve your option to purchase one Early Adopter motherboard on a first come first serve basis, subject to the number of AAA orders received. Option 2: 20% pre-order deposit A-EON will begin accepting orders for Option 1 from December 24th. Subject to availability, pre-orders for Option 2 will begin on January 7th 2020. The AAA packs will ship in January. The Limited Edition A1222 Plus Early Adopter boards are expected to ship around the end of the first quarter of 2020 ( subject to change). For more information on A1222 Plus pre-registration options please visit www.a1222plus.com which will be live in the next few days. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2019, 06:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2019`	Vampire team distributed pirated software during 'Vampire Standalone' launch For years, a customized, unlicensed distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 targeting the FPGA based 'Vampire' accelerators and Amiga clones has been available on the net. The package comes with tons of preinstalled software - including hundreds of games and productivity applications that used to be distributed commercially. Whenever people were criticizing this, Gunnar von Boehn's Vampire team was quick to point out that they were not involved with the distribution called 'Coffin' and didn't see a reason to act. But in the days following "Amiga 34", where the 'Vampire Standalone' variant was sold to endusers for the first time, an increasing number of users reported on a1k.org that they had recieved a CF card with preinstalled Coffin OS from Gunnar von Boehn himself when purchasing their Vampire computer (screenshots (German): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). When other users started criticizing this approach to launching a commercial product into the market - selling 32 Vampire units at a price of 550 Euros each at A34 should have generated sales of more than 17000 Euros in just a few hours - Vampire spokesman 'grond' explained that the team had to switch back to Amiga Kickstarts due to "ongoing boot problems with AROS" and had bought Kickstart 3.1 licenses from Mike Battilana (Cloanto) right at the show. Additionally, "H&P had given their OK" for the distribution of AmigaOS 3.9, according to grond (Screenshot (German)). This would explain just a tiny fraction of the software actually contained in the Coffin distribution - the package has a total size of 32 Gigabyte and contains a complete collection of preinstalled WHDLoad games as well as many other commercial titles such as Cinema 4D, SAS/C or "Foundation Director's Cut" - but was probably meant to diffuse the main point of criticism: Pirating software still available from dealers, like AmigaOS 3.9, is generally frowned upon, even in the usually rather 'Abandonware' friendly retro community. But due to our own conversations with Jürgen Haage from many years ago, we doubted even the claim that the Vampire team got permission to distribute AmigaOS 3.9. And approached by amiga-news.de, Mr. Haage did indeed state that he didn't know about the Vampire project and did not have any communication with the people behind it - according to him, nobody approached Haage & Partner to ask about OS 3.9. amiga-news.de has contacted Gunnar von Boehn to ask for a statement regarding this matter and to see if he could forward our mail to 'grond', since we do not have a contact address for the latter. Von Boehn states that his team "considers the current legal situation regarding the OS as very sad" und mentions that "not even properly purchased licenses might not guarantee legal ownership" - we assume he's referring to the legal battle between Hyperion and Cloanto. Mr. Von Boehn did not address Coffin OS in his reply, but admits in a subclause that he thinks Vesalia is still selling AmigaOS 3.9. We did not recieve a reply from 'grond'. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 04. Nov. 2019, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Computer case: Second batch of Checkmate 1500 Plus can be preordered As announced, Stephen Jones will produce another batch of maximal 500 pieces. From the first batch, still 100 cases have to be delivered. These cases for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200 now can be preordered. The delivery time is three up to six months. In a video Jones provides further details. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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