26.Oct.2018
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Legal battle: Amiga Inc. resurrected from the dead
While responding in the legal battle against Cloanto, Hyperion didn't just take Cloanto to court
but all of the so-called "Amiga parties" as well - i.e. all companies that are or used to be owners of the Amiga IP since 2000 and that
are parties of the 2009 settlement agreement with Hyperion:
Amino (formerly "Amiga Inc.", Washington), Itec LLC and Amiga Inc. (formerly "KMOS", Delaware).
Both Amino and Amiga Delaware
had been listed as inactive or "void" in their state's corporate registries.
Amiga Delaware had been neglecting all of their trademark registrations for years, resulting in the loss of many registered marks
including the important 'Amiga' mark in the US - which ultimately resulted
in the current litigation.
It seems that due to Hyperion's lawsuit, both companies got active again. Last week, Amino tried to stop distribution of AmigaOS 3.1.4 by sending a Cease and Desist to
Hyperion's eCommerace partner. Earlier this year, for the first time in years, expiring trademark registrations had been renewed:
The EU trademarks Amiga
and powered by Amiga are still registered as active marks owned by Amiga Inc.
As the author of Amiga Documents is now
reporting,
Amiga Inc. Delware is now listed with a status of "Good Standing" again, in contrast to "void" which used to be their status
until recently. An interesting detail in the two screenshots posted to Twitter (this kind of information is only available
to paying users of Delaware's corporate registry): In 2017 Amiga, Inc. still had a tax debt of 540,000 USD, which seems to have
been taken care of by now.
The activities of both companies are already affecting the situation, apparently. During the last few days, it was discovered that Hyperion
didn't just change their eCommerce partner as a reaction to Amino's Cease and Desist - they also changed the copyright texts
in AmigaOS 3.1.4: Where the Workbench 'About' dialog and the Kickstart screen used to say (Screenshot from a
Youtube-Video) "Copyright 2018 Hyperion Entertainment. All Rights Reserved", it now states
"Copyright 2018 Hyperion Entertainment CVBA. Developed under License".
Editor's note:
If somebody really made tax debts of half a million dollars go away, just to make Amiga Inc. capable of acting on its own again,
that suggests there are parties working behind the scenes that are still quite interested in monetarizing the remaining IP
still controlled by the company.
While Ben Hermans is using the news service of his business partner APC&TCP for one of his usual
pithy statements,
in which he explains that there's "very little room for doubt" that it's Cloanto who's behind the "administratively dissolved
Amino's" Cease and Desist, we severely doubt that Cloanto's Mike Battilana would invest six digit sums into
reactivating questionable US companies.
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25.Oct.2018
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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3D printing: Case parts for Amiga computers
The Dutch shop 3dprintserviceshop.com offers several case parts for diverse Amiga computers which are made by 3d printing, e.g.: Disk drive buttons or slot frames for the A1000 as well as disk drive frames or brackets for the floppy emulator Gotek.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2018
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New graphics board drivers: Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade
A-EON has announced the immediate availability of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade" which is a supplement to the Enhancer package. The upgrade offers 2D and 3D drivers for "Radeon RX" graphics boards with Polaris chipset. Besides, Warp 3D - the "Nova" as well as the clasic version - now can address more than 256 MB graphic memory.
What is included:
- RadeonHD version 3.6 driver
- RadeonRX version 1.11 driver
- Warp3D Nova 3D Driver for RadeonRX
Enhancer Software version 1.x as well as a supported Radeon-HD or Radeon-RX graphics board with Southern Island/Oland or Polaris-Chipsatz are required. Currently the RX driver only works with the X5000 or the announced A1222/Tabor - other systems obviously require a firmware upgrade. A Sam460 does not show any BIOS output using the latest U-Boot version but boots without any problems AmigaOS if the RX driver is installed.
In a discussion on amigaworld.net Amigakit explained that for customers of the "Plus" edition of Enhancer about 35 Euro have to be paid, owners of the standard edition have to pay about 44,50 Euro (plus taxes and charges of the online biller service). Purchasers of the package will get "a licence" for the announced second generation of the "Enhancer Software" package.
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24.Oct.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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CS530 and CS540: New A500 accelerator boards in development
The Polish people Szymon 'Cizar' Paprocki and Andrzej 'Sellen' Rogozynski are working on accelerator boards for the Amiga 500 which will be equipped with processors of 68030, 68040 or 68060. Prototypes already exist. You can watch videos about the "CS530" and "CS540" on the Youtube channel of Paprocki.
All statements of the developers only are available in Polish and the boards still are in an early development stage. The following features are planned:
- MC68030 (with FPU MC68882) and 040 processors, 68060 also planned
- SDRAM or DDR chips as FastRAM, controlled by a Spartan6 FPGA controller
- Slot for CF cards
- IDE port (40 Pin)
- A ARM ST32H7 microcontroller with 400Mhz, its function is not clear. Translations of third parties from the Polish say "a new chipset with access to the complete FastRAM".
- NAU8822AYG-based soundcard with MP3-decoder and AHI implementation. The original Amiga signal is supposed to be taken through the card
- USB
- UEXT
- WIFI (ESP 32 WROOM)
- MicroSD slot
- 12-bit stereo sampler
- Hardware MPEG decodierung
- HDMI port
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24.Oct.2018
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Arcade game: Mink Gold 2
Another release for the game competition of the Retrokomp is "Mink Gold 2" written with AMOS: You have to collect jewels, operate switches and avoid collisions with enemies.
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24.Oct.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 135 - preview and excerpts
A preview and extracts of issue 135 (November/December 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a meeting report from the 'Classic Computing' as well as reviews of Rocket Ranger and Workbench Explorer. (cg)
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23.Oct.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Sokoban clone: Magazyn
Magazyn is a Sokoban clone developed for the game competition of the Retrokomp. The latest release still has not any sound.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up previews: Invaders (playable preview) and Inviyya (video)
Inviyya is a shoot'em up game (videos: 1, 2) inspired by R-Type which has been developed for two years. The engine was finished but according to the author still some bugs have to be fixed and diverse levels to be completed. The final release is planned before Xmas.
Invaders is a clone of the classic Space Invaders. The game has been developed for the game competition of the Retrokomp but still is not quite finished - e.g. sound is missing.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga Hackroom122 Meetup (27./28. October, Warsaw)
On October 27 and 28 in Warsaw the 'Amiga Hackroom122 Meetup' will take place. The first day is dedicated to the demoscene and a MorphOS presentation of Grzegorz Kraszewski. On the second day there will be workshops on AMOS and music trackers. Ticktes are available for 10 Zloty (about 2,40 Euro).
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23.Oct.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Scene World: Podcast Episode #54: Gamescom 2018
In the latest issue of the "Scene World" the editors report about their experiences as exhibitors at the Gamescom. On site developers and publishers were asked about their expectations for 2019 regarding the retro gaming scene.
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22.Oct.2018
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Linux distribution with Amiga design: Workbench OS
"Workbench OS" (video) provided by John Petrella and Adriano Morselli is a Linux distribution with Amiga design. The desktop Mate is changed with several themes and and a corresponding icon set based on the look of different AmigaOS versions.
Besides, the emulator FS-UAE is preinstalled (Kickstart-ROMs are not included) and the usage of Icaros under a virtual environment is explained on the website of Workbench OS.
Workbench OS is available as these different versions: The "preview" version from December 2017 as PCLinuxOS edition with RPM package manager or with DEB package system. The "stable" version was released about three weeks later and is only available as RPM/PCLinuxOS version. For this December a version based on Debian Testing was announced.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Oct.2018
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Hyperion: Graphical illustration about origin of AmigaOS customers
A few days ago Hyperion has published a pie chart on its Facebook site which illustrates from which countries all the customers are who purchased a download during the last 30 days. About three weeks ago AmigaOS 3.1.4 was released which might be a big part of the downloads:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Oct.2018
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Event: Pictures of MicroAlchimie (France)
Last weekend in Clérieux (near to Lyon) the "MicroAlchimie" took place. About 60 visitors and the Amiga traders Amedia and Relec met to celebrate retro computers. Pictures of the event now can be found on amiga-ng.org.
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21.Oct.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga On The Lake: Replacement keyboards by Kipper2K
The company owners of "Amiga On The Lake", Aaron Smith and Jeffery Yoder, did finance the production of the replacement keyboards developed by 'Kipper2K' in advance and have taken over the worldwide distribution. Replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 1200 will be available about Xmas, the ones for the Amiga 600, 2000, 3000 and 4000 will follow. Additional to the complete keyboards also replacement PCB membranes for repairing the A500/A600 and A1200 computers "are expected to be available after Xmas 2018".
The replacement keyboards will be sent as keyboard kits with instructions. You have to pay 189 US-Dollar for the A1200 version and ten more for the A500.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.10.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 20th, 2018:
dizzytorrent2.lha comm/tcp 540K 68k Amiga BitTorrent client with ...
tw05.zip demo/mag 764K 68k The Word #5, UK scene diskmag
tw06.zip demo/mag 775K 68k The Word #6, UK scene diskmag
tw07.zip demo/mag 1.5M 68k The Word #7, UK scene diskmag
tw08.lha demo/mag 683K 68k The Word #8, UK scene diskmag
feelin_68k.lha dev/gui 375K 68k A framework for AmigaOS and f...
feelin_common.lha dev/gui 1.1M 68k A framework for AmigaOS and f...
feelin_src.lha dev/gui 510K A framework for AmigaOS and f...
Microsoft_Tools_1.0.lha dev/mui 477K MOS Microsoft Office Tools
AGA_Monthly_19.txt mags/misc 240K AGA/CD32 newsletter, Septembe...
ANews06.txt mags/misc 66K AmyNews #6; info on new Amiga...
Channel_Z_01.zip mags/misc 668K 68k Freeware AGA disk magazine, S...
Channel_Z_02.zip mags/misc 618K 68k Freeware AGA disk magazine, N...
Channel_Z_03.zip mags/misc 1.3M 68k Freeware AGA disk magazine, J...
Channel_Z_05.zip mags/misc 923K 68k Freeware AGA disk magazine, M...
Channel_Z_06.zip mags/misc 1.2M 68k Freeware AGA disk magazine, J...
Antares.lha mods/misc 59K TFMX 7V module 'Antares' by J...
Monday_morning.lha mods/misc 48K TFMX Pro module 'Monday morning'
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 471K 68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.2_aros.lha mus/edit 584K x86 Opus Audio Tools
AmiKick.lha util/misc 42K ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
Polluks3.lha util/time 1K 14 clock faces for MorphOS
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 22K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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21.Oct.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.10.2018
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 20th, 2018:
ico_datatype.i386-aros.lha dat/ico 31kb Windows Icon (.ico) datatype
opensyobonaction.src-aros... gam/pla 12Mb game source to compile with aros...
smw.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 17Mb Crush the opposition in this pla...
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21.Oct.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 20.10.2018
The following archives have been added to MorphOS Storage until October 20th, 2018:
vbcc_0.9f.lha Development/C A highly optimizing por...
Iris_beta41.lha Email New email client suppor...
WormWars_9.13.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
ReportPlus_7.51.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Applauncher_sbar_2.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Run your apps from the ...
TheBucheron_wallpapers... System/Ambient/Wallpapers Wallpaper
InstallerLG_0.1.0a30.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
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21.Oct.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.10.2018
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 October 20th, 2018:
- 2018-10-19 improved: Robin Hood: Legend Quest (Codemasters) keyboard routine rewritten, 68000 quitkey support, timing fixed, trainer options added, blitter waits added, source code included (Info)
- 2018-10-16 improved: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Lucasfilms Games) reduced flashes on saving a game (Info)
- 2018-10-16 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) trainer added and improved, pause key added, possibility to disable music (Info, Image)
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21.Oct.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MS Tools 1.0
Carsten Siegner's "MS Tools" are a MUI-class and a library for MorphOS to show Microsoft-Word binary files. An example program which uses these tools also is included (screenshot). Supported features:
+ text
+ lists
+ pictures (bmp,png,jpeg)
+ embedet Excel Spreedsheets
+ header
+ footer
+ footnotes
+ document properties.
Download: Microsoft_Tools_1.0.lha (477 KB)
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20.Oct.2018
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Amino taking legal measures against AmigaOS 3.1.4
Yesterday, Hyperion's AmigaOS 3.1.4 stopped being available for purchase, the relevant links on Hyperions Website didn't go anywhere. Today, the company announced on Facebook that "normal online purchase services" had resumed and wished its customers "Happy 3.1.4 buying again!".
If you look closer, you'll realize that Hyperion is using a different service provider for its online sales now: until yesterday, Avangate was handling the commercial downloads for the Belgian company. Now all "buy now" links are pointing to shareit.com. The first party to point out that 3.1.4 sales had been stopped due to a cease and desist from Amiga Washington (Amino) was author of the Amiga Documents report in a Twitter posting yesterday.
We were now able to have this confirmed by several sources: behind the scenes, Hyperion management is confirming that the company - or rather, its service provider Avangate - recieved a cease and desist from Amino. As of now, it is unknown to us what this C&D is based on. But Hyperion simply switching to a different service provider and continuing to sell the product worldwide is a clear statement that the two parties disagree about the legal situation. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Oct.2018
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Arcade game: AMiner
AMiner (video) is a still not quite finished, simple arcade game for one or two players. The game was written as competition entry for the Retrokomp under some time pressure. Therefore it still has little bugs.
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20.Oct.2018
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Arcade classic: PONG 4k for the CD32
In August PoNG4 was released which is a version for four players supporting a four player adapter. Now a version for the CD32 was released as well calling itself PONG 4k and offering CD audio tracks and an intro animation in CDXL format.
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20.Oct.2018
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Amigakit: Report of AmiWest 2018
The British trader attended the AmiWest 2018 which took place last weekend in Sacramento (USA) and now has published a detailed, illustrated report.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2018
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AROS-Linux symbiosis: Status update on "ARIX"
The goal of "ARIX" is to run most parts of AROS on a Linux kernel. The project was started several years ago and the latest information dates from 2013. Since August the developer Michal Schulz writes regularly entries in his blog about the latest developments.
Update: (21.10.2018, 16:00, cg)
As Schulz points out in a posting (German) on amiga-news.de, his new ARIX project is using a different approach: he's no longer trying to run AROS hosted on the Linux kernel, he's now trying to create a Linux based operating system mimicking AmigaOS/AROS wherever possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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