Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Inc. reach settlement

[Boot_WB]

Excellent!

[Tension]

So, where does this leave Amiga Inc. ?

Bust hopefully...

[dammy]

It's over, Hyperion won!

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

No, Hyperion did not win.  Hyperion and Amiga Inc - Itec came to a new agreement.  

Now all those Red AI bashers, are you going to defend Hyperion's partner, Amiga Inc?

[amigadave]

No, Hyperion did not win.  Hyperion and Amiga Inc - Itec came to a new agreement.  

Now all those Red AI bashers, are you going to defend Hyperion's partner, Amiga Inc?

I would not exactly call them partners now.  I heard that Amiga.com website is now up for sale.  Makes you wonder exactly what Amiga Inc. is going to do next?  Will they continue to pursue Amiga Anywhere or Amiga DE?  Will they finally abandon the name "Amiga" altogether now that they have lost the right to the name "AmigaOS"?

Congratulations Hyperion!  Please tell us what your next hardware target is for porting AmigaOS4.x to.

Things are looking up in this tiny niche world of Amiga.

Also I would second, third, or what ever the idea of porting AmigaOS4.x to the MacMini G4 so we could have a dual boot MorphOS and AmigaOS4.x system.  I might use mine a lot more if that were available.

AmiWest 2009 Show is going great.  Hope you all are enjoying the news from here and the webcam feed is working okay.  Amiga Game Competition is tomorrow.

[kolla]

Being sued and not losing is actually a win.

[Darrin]

Does the access and right to use OS3.1 to develop their programs also give the the rights to use Kickstart 3.1?

I'm wondering if this would allow Hyperion to develop a pre-loaded SD card for "Minimig" type machines with an office Kickstart and OS installation.  Perhap even a complete "Minimig" games system for commerical release...

Either way, well done Hyperion and hopefully this will allow OS4.x to move forward in leaps and bounds.

[itix]

@amigadave

Makes you wonder exactly what Amiga Inc. is going to do next? Will they continue to pursue Amiga Anywhere or Amiga DE? Will they finally abandon the name "Amiga" altogether now that they have lost the right to the name "AmigaOS"?

Since there is an agreement Amiga Inc must have got something in return. Btw anyone noticed Hyperion Entertainment was at the same time restructured from VOF to CVBA?

[mingle]

Interesting...

The intelligent (thought obviously not the simplest) thing to do would be to commence a port of OS4+ to x86...

We can dream, I guess...

Mike.

[SamuraiCrow]

Or ARM instead of either x86 or PPC.

[tone007]

ARM machines aren't nearly as common as x86.  Porting to ARM would be silly.

[Argo]

No, Hyperion did not win.  Hyperion and Amiga Inc - Itec came to a new agreement.  

Now all those Red AI bashers, are you going to defend Hyperion's partner, Amiga Inc?

They are not partners. Not according to the Hyperion press release. Amiga, Inc. no longer owns or has rights to AmigaOS 4. Hyperion is the sole owner of AOS4. Just like Amiga, Inc. has or had, Hyperion now has unlimited rights to Amiga OS 3.1. Hyperion now has Amiga OS and is completely separated from any entanglemnet with Amiga, Inc.   All Amiga, Inc. has is Amiga Anywhere and whatever other rights/ownership of previous Amiga OS versions. Amiga, Inc. previously mention and long in development Amiga OS 5 is sunk. At least under that name.

[jagoche]

If Hyperion wants to fund future developments they need to make more money selling existing products including OS4.1?

Since OS4.1 for PPC MACs apparently exists in some form, my guess is we will soon see it released, right?

Right?

[Boot_WB]

Just downloaded (at a cost of $10) the company status from Delaware Division of Corporations:

Status: AR delinquent, Tax due
Status date: 03/02/2009 (ie 2nd March)

(From the website: "This represents a corporation that has not filed the required annual report and there are delinquent taxes due."

Looks like Amiga Inc isn't taking care of basic business anymore.

PDF available here. :-)

[little]

PDF available here. :-)

Thank you very much

[persia]

I didn't think OS 4 had a Kickstart.  

They have the rights to 3.1 to protect the bits of 3.1 that are in OS 4.  If AI goes belly up the right to classic OS will be in limbo, possibly a long time, with the possibility that whomever eventually ends up with those rights could take legal action against Hyperion, the specific granting of rights to 3.1 should prevent this.

Does the access and right to use OS3.1 to develop their programs also give the the rights to use Kickstart 3.1?

I'm wondering if this would allow Hyperion to develop a pre-loaded SD card for "Minimig" type machines with an office Kickstart and OS installation.  Perhap even a complete "Minimig" games system for commerical release...

Either way, well done Hyperion and hopefully this will allow OS4.x to move forward in leaps and bounds.

[Darrin]

I didn't think OS 4 had a Kickstart.  

They have the rights to 3.1 to protect the bits of 3.1 that are in OS 4.  If AI goes belly up the right to classic OS will be in limbo, possibly a long time, with the possibility that whomever eventually ends up with those rights could take legal action against Hyperion, the specific granting of rights to 3.1 should prevent this.

I was thinking of Kickstart from the Minimig point of view where it is needed.

That said, doesn't OS4.x use a kind of UAE environment to run legacy software and if so then doesn't it need a Kickstart for the classic emulation?