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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Gulliver on September 04, 2010, 04:23:44 AM
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Good news: I contacted the ex CEO an owner of Oregon Research, which was the Amiga company responsible for releasing Amiga software titles such as:
GameSmith Development System (game programming)
Termite (BBS software)
Termite TCP (tcp-ip stack)
He kindly allowed me to put all Oregon Research Amiga software on the Public Domain!!!
Email exchange follows
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RE: Oregon Research
Friday, September 3, 2010 8:00 PM
From:
"Robert Luneski"
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Greetings,
Sorry for the delay, I was in the hospital and out of the office. Yes
you have my permission to place Oregon Research Amiga products in the
public domain.
Cheers,
Bob Luneski
Bob Luneski
Technical Manager, Industrial Sector
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xxx SW Third Avenue, Suite xxx, Portland, OR xxx
(xxx)827-8xxx ext. xxx http://xxx.org/
-----Original Message-----
From: Ignacio [mailto:xxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 6:18 PM
To: Robert Luneski
Subject: Oregon Research
This email was sent from a visitor to http://www.xxx.org.
Email From: Ignacio (xxx@yahoo.com)
Originating IP Address: xxx.xxx.106.229
Message:
Hi, I am sorry to bother you with this fifteen year old stuff. The thing
is that I have bought Termite TCP Amiga network solution, second hand, a
couple of years ago.
It is great sofware for Amigas, and since you have been in the past a
great supporter and developer for this now small Amiga community, is
that I dare ask you if you could please allow me to put all your Amiga
files on the Public Domain, so that they are freely available to
everyone. I would also add if you think it is necessary, that you wont
provide any suport whatsoever, and not be liable for any damage at all.
By the way, if at some point, you are willing to give out the sources of
your excellent Amiga software for non commercial purposes (If you still
have them), that would be even better.
So please, just say yes.
Thank you for your time,
Regards,
Ignacio Gully
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fantastic! thank you! and Rob too! so maybe you're on a roll now? out to get some more s/w for us?
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Happy to see some open-minded people, nice job Gulliver!
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Yes! another nice job Gulliver! Thanks.
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Thank you! Where will you put it - Aminet?
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A great job from you and kudos to Oregon. Nice to see.
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@Gulliver&Oregon Research
thx! any chance of opensourcing Termite TCP (using LGPL or APL license)?
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Thank you! Where will you put it - Aminet?
Aminet will require an email direct from Robert Luneski, but I guess that shouldn't be a problem.
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Cool! Termite TCP was what I used to get online back in the day with my A1200. It was a great program!
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;-) Now this is welcome news. Kudos to you, sir!
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I dont have access to the sources, but I will ask Mr.Luneski for them.
And the versions I have now, are not mine (my Amiga is in a non working state at the moment).
The last version of Termite TCP is 1.60 (circa 1998), if someone has it, please share it :)
Anyway, here are two downloads for your enjoyment!
http://lilliput.host-cafe.com/Files/TermiteTCP 1.5.dms
http://lilliput.host-cafe.com/Files/GameSmith.zip
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Any news about Torsten Bach, the author of SysSpeed ?
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No news in that front, my friend :(
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Nice work, and thank you Oregon/Mr. Luneski. I always thought GameSmith was a cool product.
Plaz
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O.R. - just terrific. I used Termite back in the day, bought and registered, and the TCP stack too. They made good software!
Thanks Mr Luneski and O.R. !
Now I wanna look into that games development stuff just for curiosity
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http://www.sgowdy.org/~gowdy/Amiga/AmigaReport/ar319_Sections/review1.html
Cool review of Gamesmith by Dave Haynie. Hey Cammy... were you working on a a game at one point?
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Excellent. How good is this GameSmith Development System? Has anyone here personally used it?
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Let's send up a big HOORAH! for Robert Luneski and Mr. Gully.
(I have boxed copies of Termite for each of 3 Amigas,but still good to see old software being freed.Maybe I'll do something with Gamesmith.)
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@Gulliver
Do you have copies of all of the software you want to post?
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@orb85750
The GameSmith Development System is about the best there is for 2D Amiga software. It comes standard with CPU-assisted blitting routines that make up for Commodore using such a slow blitter in the hardware. It also contains custom copper-list routines. Basically it makes up for all of the shortcomings of Graphics.library in the OS itself.
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Anyway, here are two downloads for your enjoyment!
I have the Termite telecomm (non-TCP) program and the nice OnTheBall personal organizer program I can contribute.
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@hardlink
Please share them with us! If you want send me a PM and I will upload them to a server. :)
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@Gulliver
Do you have copies of all of the software you want to post?
No, I have a legit copy of TermiteTCP only, the other software I dont have it.
Anyway, as my Amiga 1200 motherboard died, I only managed to dig copies that someone else uploaded to the web.
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thats really cool be good the chap that did maimi dx be as kind
am hoping that they did program called on the ball a diary calender alarm clock program
was awsome program still havent seen anything as good on the pc
thanks to you well done
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Excellent. How good is this GameSmith Development System? Has anyone here personally used it?
Back in the day it was the best most complete dev tool I could find. I never published any thing, but I began working on two games using GameSmith. Had them both about half done with graphics, custom fonts, sprites and very limited play. Only took a few weeks to get that far.
I wonder if I still have those old files... probably not. Anyway, my job changed, I had to move, priorities changed and those projects never got finished. Still I remember GameSmith fondly though.
BTW, found this link while poking around...
http://amiga-manuals.xiik.net/applications/GameSmith%20-%20Manual-ENG.pdf
Plaz
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Great! Kudos to Robert Luneski. I think I still have one of his Oregon Research newsletters when I bought a SquirrelSCSI and TermiteTCP from him.
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That's awesome news...
FYI, Termite was developed by Steven Frank of Panic Software (developers of Transmit and Candybar for the Mac). He's got a blog here (http://stevenf.tumblr.com/page/4) and he's quite a bit of an Amiga collector/fanatic!
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I remember using termite TCP, great program, then I upgraded to Miami
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thats really cool be good the chap that did maimi dx be as kind
am hoping that they did program called on the ball a diary calender alarm clock program
was awsome program still havent seen anything as good on the pc
thanks to you well done
On the Ball was a very nice program, I just got too lazy to input the information
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As I mentioned in another thread, links were broken, as I am now changing hosting, but meanwhile:
GameSmith Game development system at http://www.mediafire.com/file/x9pqmpqpphvra6r/GameSmith.zip
For the GameSmith manual go to the Applications section at http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/index.html
Termite TCP 1.60 at http://www.mediafire.com/file/6akka8rq44jc76z/Termite%20TCP%201.60.zip
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Happy to see some open-minded people, nice job Gulliver!
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Sorry for picking this one up!
But where can all the products be downloaded from? Mostly HiSoft C++? I'm really interested in that one!
And has there been any information/clarification regarding sources (maybe HiSoft C++ can be renewed)?
Thanks again for all the efforts spent on this!
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I dont have access to the sources, but I will ask Mr.Luneski for them.
And the versions I have now, are not mine (my Amiga is in a non working state at the moment).
The last version of Termite TCP is 1.60 (circa 1998), if someone has it, please share it :)
Anyway, here are two downloads for your enjoyment!
http://lilliput.host-cafe.com/Files/TermiteTCP 1.5.dms
http://lilliput.host-cafe.com/Files/GameSmith.zip
Any news about the sources codes? If he doesn't want to give them away we may start a bounty to buy them.
Kamelito
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I have the Termite telecomm (non-TCP) program and the nice OnTheBall personal organizer program I can contribute.
I wanted "OnTheBall" years ago but Software Hut ran out and was never restocked.
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Any news about the sources codes? If he doesn't want to give them away we may start a bounty to buy them.
Kamelito
No news about them. the sad fact is that they seem to be lost :(