Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Inc. reach settlement

[orb85750]

Maybe this means that we'll rise up again.
Maybe there will be brand new Amiga branded machines and we'll get again our identity back!

I have in mind a couple of Amiga-based machines so we can find again in our shops an Amiga branded machine... i can imagine in shopping malls along the Apple Stores we'll find and Amiga Store... maybe I'm dreaming but I WANT TO BELIEVE

YES, AMIGA BRANDED MACHINES IS THE ONLY WAY THAT AMIGA WE'LL EVER REGAIN FULL IDENTITY, even if the machines can be purchased only via the internet for the time being.  Porting to this or that machine to be installed by this or that hobbyist is small thinking, IMO (but it still beats being held hostage by AI).

[orb85750]

Well, just call the new hardware AmigaOS [whatever], such
as "AmigaOS Workstation" -- but maybe I shouldn't argue with
an armchair attorney :-)

@Editor,

I have no qualms about selling the Web site, regardless of what obsolete and unobtainable hardware Hyperion choose to port the OS to.  I'm not even quite sure I'd care if they ported it to an off-the-shelf, current, Intel Mac to be honest.

The problem I see, and have always seen, is that regardless of who the "winner" of the lawsuit turned out to be, the OS is still absolutely worthless without three things.  Cheap and fast commodity hardware, programmers and software.

This is 2009, soon to be 2010, and we are a far cry from the massive development community of 1987/88.  Back in those days, there were far fewer choices for developers.  Namely, there was Unix, PC running DOS, Mac, or the Amiga, and the specs on the Amiga were 10x any of the others at the time.

Now, that's simply not the case any more, and frankly, it'll be impossible to attract any real development base to any future OS platform *unless* Hyperion pull the stick out and port it to modern, cheap, commodity hardware (aka Intel)..

In regards to Hyperion and all this talk of porting, please keep in mind that they did NOT win the right to develop new hardware and/or call it an "Amiga".  They simply -- apparently -- won the rights to AmigaOS 4.x...    It would still be up to Amiga Inc (from what I understand as an armchair lawyer) to develop any hardware to match the OS if you want some new machine to be labeled an "Amiga".

edit: back to the point though...  I'm at a point in my life (unemployed without prospects, and quickly approaching bankruptcy) where -- even if Hyperion does port it to something top-shelf, I can't guarantee I'll be interested.  As such, better the site goes to a new team with fresh eyes and a more dedicated heart than for me to keep passively participating.

Wayne