IncaGold and Hyperion Entertainment enter into comprehensive license agreement

[Rogue]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Leuven, Belgium. April 18, 2003.

IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms.

Hyperion's first target for conversion is ?Midnight Racing? which offers players the excitement of realistic night driving using a state of the art 3D engine.

"We are understandably very pleased with this agreement as signing with IncaGold will allow us to bring IncaGold?s outstanding and ever-growing portfolio of games to our target audiences", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment.

Daniel Aurell, Director at IncaGold, added, "We are pleased to have found such a competent partner in this field to take our PC entertainment products to other home computing platforms. We are looking forward to together with Hyperion bringing many of our titles  to the Amiga, Linux and Mac systems in the coming months."

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment (www.hyperion-entertainment.com) is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the onversion
of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work
in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.

About IncaGold
IncaGold (www.incagold.com) is a world-wide leader in the development and publishing of casual
gaming entertainment on PC CD-ROM. Founded in 1996, the company operates sales and development offices in Brazil, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

[jj]

Well this is good news, in light of all the recent software anouncments for MorphOS, good to see that we will be getting some recent games for OS4

[Alkemyst]

And Then :-D

[odin]

I don't care about the new stuff, just redevelop SlamTilt will ya Rogue ;-).

[Rob]

It'd be nice to have the new slamtilt come home to the Amiga.  I think
the original might be available for free if you don't have it I know
21st Century made the other pinball games available for free.

Good to see Hyperion striving to bring more diverse gaming experiences
to us software starved paupers of the gaming world.

[ikir]

WOW!

WE NEED GAMES :-)

[amigamad]

Great news amiga os4 will have much better games than morph os at this rate.

[Alkemyst]

Poster: amigamad Date: 2003/4/19 15:45:06

Great news amiga os4 will have much better games than morph os at this rate.

No need to rubb it in

[Kronos]

You mean more games are announced at this rate or what ??

Don't forget that all this has to be ported 1st, and don't
forget the typical time between an announcement and the
release on a Hyperion-project .....

(which is a problem they share with others in this "market").


Flames ahoi  :-P

[zacman]

>Great news amiga os4 will have much better
>games than morph os at this rate.

Yeah, I will miss games like "Do you know Jesus":

"Do You Know Jesus is a fun and fast paced game
that entertains as it educates. With over 1500
questions covering both the Old and New
Testaments, your knowledge of the Word of God is
tested in new and challenging ways. Play with your
family and friends in a rapid fire game show mode,
or just play alone to gauge your command of God's
living word. Never has so much fun delivered so
much Kingdom value."

http://www.incagold.com/products/jesus/jesus.php

[z5]

@Kronos:

message deleted because there is no point in answering troll messages. At some point, they might feel that they do have something to say...

[Ivan]

>Yeah, I will miss games like "Do you know Jesus":
>http://www.incagold.com/products/jesus/jesus.php
>

Smells of sarcasm. Do you have a problem with other people believing in Jesus?

Ivan

[RedWarrior]

Sorry to rain on your parade... with all the glee and hype about the joys of OS4... I can't help remembering that all the best games for Amiga didn't use Workbench at all.  You know- the ones that boot cold??  Without the operating system chewing up resources (efficient tho it was), old school games with no dos were generally the ones with the biggest "wow" factor. (speedball2, silkworm, r-type... and all the arcade ripoffs)

I'm coming from an A500/A2000 background, wb1.3 and 2.0 respectively...  so I dont know what improvements came with later releases (if any)... but could the A1 be used like that? say... boot from DVD or CD like a console?


just wondering...  the OS really wasn't the best thing about the amiga.

[Rogue]

Flames ahoi

Why can't you do a single posting with something like "Flame on" or "Flames ahoi"?

[gnarly]

but could the A1 be used like that? say... boot from DVD or CD like a console?

Aye, it could, BUT...

The AmigaOne isnt standard hardware like the A500, A1200 and the like. It doesnt have a built in graphics chipset, and doesnt necesarily(sp?) use the built in audio chipset. Games (and other software) are better off going through the OS instead of trying to support the thousands of audio, graphics and god knows what else chipsets themselves.