Amiga vs. Hyperion - Any updates?

[Trev]

The court issued a protective order, so we're not going to hear any more about the case until it's settled or tried. Even then, we'll only know what both sides agree to reveal.

[Trev]

Well, someone, somewhere wins, it just won't be their customers. EDIT: Aside from the time and effort contributed by Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion employees, though, I don't think the Amiga IP is really worth anything. For modern projects, there are much better operating environments available, unencumbered by legal and community bickering. No serious (read: consistently profitable) developer needs the baggage associated with the Amiga.

[Trev]

SPOILER:

Atreyu dies because Falkor is stuck in court and can't help him on his journey.

Ah, man. You've gone and brought up what was one of the most traumatic experiences of my film-going childhood--the death of Artax. E.T. going home is up there, too, but E.T. didn't die. (E.T. does, however, continue to visit my nightmares. !@#% aliens.)

[Trev]

@amiga92570

I'll have to watch when I get home. (My iPhone tells me the video doesn't exist.)

[Trev]

I still think there is room for a niche platform with an innovative that's marketed well and spans several niche areas. Yes, the current OS still needs development.

That's the problem, though. AmigaOS hasn't been innovative since the early 90's. Even then, the platform was struggling to keep up with advancements in mainstream personal computer hardware and software.

The folks at Hypersion are doing an admirable job of keeping AmigaOS alive, but in my opinion, that's all they're doing. They need to produce more than just another target for emulating OS-friendly m68k applications and compiling portable open source software.

[Trev]

@amigadave

That was my point, really. :-) There's an odd, almost delusional disconnect in the Amiga community between what people think the Amiga represents (innovation in personal computing) and what it actually is (a quaint platform representative of personal computing in the 1980's).

[Trev]

On a side note, I really wish people hadn't been duped into believing MP3 is a good thing. That one little extension to MPEG-1 has all but killed innovation in digital audio formats. Better formats exist, certainly, but the perception that MP3 is "better" than even the lowly PCM used by CD-Audio has done almost irreparable damage. :-/ (EDIT: I'll concede that it beats lugging around a box of tapes with a Walkman, but that's about it. The tapes--with the hiss filtered out--do sound better, though.)

The good news is that modern music is rarely worth listening to, so we're not really missing anything. ;-)