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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: amigakit on May 28, 2015, 11:14:17 PM
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A-EON Technology acquires TuneNet
Cardiff, 26th May 2015
A-EON Technology Ltd (http://www.a-eon.com) is pleased to announce that it has purchased the rights to TuneNet, the multi-format Music Player and Internet Radio Streamer for AmigaOS 4 from its developer, Paul Heams.
As part of the agreement A-EON has acquired the exclusive rights to the full TuneNet source code, binaries and plugins along with the worldwide exclusive rights to publish and distribute the software and its plugins.
A-EON has also acquired the TuneNet web domain and exclusive rights to all trade names for product marketing, promotion and branding for the AmigaOS and Amiga-related operating systems including emulation.
Meanwhile Paul Heams will retain the non-exclusive rights to the "audio re-sampling class" source code for other projects.
TuneNet is a modular multi-format player which was developed from the ground up by Paul Heams in 2004. It supports a range of music formats through special plugins and includes recording and Shout/Ice-cast broadcasting. It also includes a system GUI along with a customisable miniature dock facility and XML drive skinnable interface. Over the years, TuneNet has received many notable upgrades. It was made freely available on OS4Depot and was also bundled as a third-party contribution with AmigaOS 4.1
In recent years, due to changing work commitments, Paul hasn’t been able to devote time to support and update TuneNet. Rather than let his creation stagnate Paul said, “I’ve realised for quite a while that TuneNet needed a new home. I just did not have the time to give it the attention it deserved and I’m really pleased that A-EON have taken up the challenge to drive it forward”. Matthew Leaman added,“TuneNet is quality AmigaOS software and we look forward to building on Paul’s excellent legacy”.
For more information please visit:
http://www.a-eon.com
http://www.tunenet.co.uk
(http://a-eon.biz/images/tunenet_news_icon.png) (http://a-eon.biz/PDF/News_Release_TuneNet.pdf)
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I'm curious. Not to criticize, or maybe I'm just misunderstanding, or not using the site correctly. I was able to purchase Personal Paint through there successfully and it works great, I love it, however when I look at the A-Eon website I see links for the following:
- ImageFX, links to "imagefx.amistore.net", however when you click on it it just dumps you back at http://www.a-eon.com
- OctaMed, links to "octamed.amistore.net", but when you click on it it just goes to the main AmiStore site with no mention of being able to buy OctaMed.
- Aladdin4D, links to "aladdin4d.amistore.net", but also just dumps to the main AmiStore site with no option to purchase.
So, please don't take this too harshly, but I want to support some of these projects but how do I buy them??? It looks like you're buying up a bunch of software but then not releasing it? Or are you saying that these programs like ImageFX, OctaMed, and Aladdin4D are being updated to only work under OS4, since that is the only version of the OS that's able to use AmiStore? I can't be the only one with these questions, right?
In other words, the website is a little short on information. Thanks! :D LOL
PS - when is Prisma Megamix going to be released?? :laughing:
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Unrelated to my above comment, are you certain that "Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard" was an appropriate choice of music for taking the screenshot for your flyer with? Wow, you guys rock out! Cheers! :banana:
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Interesting news, Tunenet is one of the few Os4 programs I actually miss using, is there any chance of an OS3 port? Would love to run it on my A4000.
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Unrelated to my above comment, are you certain that "Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard" was an appropriate choice of music for taking the screenshot for your flyer with? Wow, you guys rock out! Cheers! :banana:
The other radio station was Classic FM, we try to cater for all tastes! ;-)
TrevorD
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The other radio station was Classic FM, we tray to cater for all tastes! ;-)
Nice. :)
(http://xza.us/dio/photos/dio01.jpg)
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Now there is the "Man on the silver mountain" I live an hour from where Ronnie grew up. OS4.1 + TuneNet + Ronnie, now things are looking good :)
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buying up software is all fine, the question is what to do with it then, what the original coder couldnt have done. whoever would like to pick up instead, needs probably to understand the code and the concepts first. likely not everything is everybody piece of cake, and i only hear of few people associated with aeon who apparently all are working mostly on their own projects and committing a bit to software in related areas. im curious who might be appointed on all that acquired code, because with the current resources doubt it will make a big difference for the community in whose hands it rests.
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Looks like we have got new software house in the competition what is always good.
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The other radio station was Classic FM, we try to cater for all tastes! ;-)
TrevorD
Thanks,:). Nice to know their are others who want ClassicFM.
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Superb!! :D :drink:
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They should buy the OS too and put the ressources to move it forward faster IMHO. Be it Morphos or AmigaOS.
It'll mean also improving the 68k version. (AmigaOS)
Kamelito