Hyperion: "Halloween special double-treat for the Classic AmigaOS"

[Boing-ball]

Considering a thread on eab about the forecasted death of Hyperion, this old … thing… seems forgotten? Was it really 3.1.4 that “triggered” Cloanto, or was it perhaps this, and 3.1.4/3.2 was merely adding to injury? In addition, Hyperion has also been distributing OS 3.1 along with OS4 (and Cloanto at one point were allowed to distribute OS 4 with AmigaForever). Where’s all this in Malko’s timeline?

When 3.1.4 was released, Hyperion first claimed full ownership, copyright Hyperion, “All rights reserved”, but then swiftly changed it to “Developed under license”. Olsen claimed it was a mishap as a result of source code repo blabla, but a “mishap” that made it unnoticed all the way to the shipped floppy/kickstart labels? I find that very doubtful. Then there was this thing in the download-archive of 3.1.4, where the kickstart images existed both as .rom and as .bin for flashing to chips. The name of the folder for the .rom files was named “emulation_or_maprom”, which then was “corrected “ to "unsplit_unswapped”. What does all this indicate? Was Hyperion provoking Cloanto on purpose?

Bored are we? Holly thread resurrection Sheldon! 😳 this thread should have been kept in 2016… Move on!

[kolla]

@Boing-ball

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and bumping the thread

[Boing-ball]

Bazinga!

[F0LLETT]

Really.

I take some time off and you pull this.
Kolla revived an old thread, at least what he was saying was on topic so to speak.

[kolla]

Yes, my thought was that it was better to revive the old thread than to make a new one with a link to the old one, since from what I can tell, people don’t bother following such links anyways.