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I wanted to own amiga rights
« on: February 04, 2014, 04:00:32 PM »
Dear Friends:
For a long time, I wish I could own the rights to amiga, to do my best
to help amiga succeed.
But now I realized, that to help amiga, all I need to do, is to develop
new amiga games and new amiga animations.
I am looking forward to help the world of amiga !!!
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2014, 06:32:43 PM »
What is your plan or your help? just curiosity.
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2014, 07:05:30 PM »
i can see this going south fast.
 

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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2014, 07:26:01 PM »
Quote from: rednova;758427
Dear Friends:
For a long time, I wish I could own the rights to amiga, to do my best
to help amiga succeed.
But now I realized, that to help amiga, all I need to do, is to develop
new amiga games and new amiga animations.
I am looking forward to help the world of amiga !!!


"Hope" is not a plan.....and hell will be full of people who had good intentions.
 

Offline vince_6

Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2014, 07:49:29 PM »
Well, u r 20 years late :-)
I had some ideas too back then but not the right age and money.
Now I have the right age but the money is still a dream, lol.
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2014, 08:40:28 PM »
They have licensed their most useful IP's to Hyperion and CUSA, so what's left besides making game apps etc for mobile phones which they already do at the minute.
 

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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2014, 10:16:36 PM »
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They have licensed their most useful IP's to Hyperion and CUSA, so what's left besides making game apps etc for mobile phones which they already do at the minute.


And CUSA currently suffers from a slight case of existence failure, so we do not expect anything to come from that anymore. Not that their plans were really relevant to what Amiga users are here for anyway.

So, depending on your faction preferences, the only IP that matters is in the hands of Hyperion, MorphOS team, or AROS teams.
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2014, 10:29:59 PM »
Quote from: rednova;758427
Dear Friends:
For a long time, I wish I could own the rights to amiga, to do my best
to help amiga succeed.
But now I realized, that to help amiga, all I need to do, is to develop
new amiga games and new amiga animations.
I am looking forward to help the world of amiga !!!


If I were king...

To an extent, I think that whatever McEwen Inc. still has should be rescued from him/them, but t the same time I also thing that is largely irrelevant at this point.

If I were wealthy enough for such things, I would make an offer to buy whatever McEwen Inc. still controls, just for the because of it. While I don't think it's necessary at this point, I'd figure out what the actual agreements are between entities, and make sure that things are friendly with Hyperion, as OS4 happens to be where I'm at. If it would make sense to do so, I'd extend olive branches to MOS and AROS groups, but I'm not sure that's really relevant to them at this point. I'd invest in things I find myself important, get some hardware that I want to have made, primarily for OS4, but offer it to MOS/AROS groups as well and fund ports if there is any interest there. I'd fund some development for drivers I care about and APIs that I care about, and such things. I'd put up funding toward an x86 port, if the required developers were willing to take the job, but I don't believe I would be in any position to make demands or force anything.

Unfortunately, I am not wealthy. I am well underway (currently homeless, in a way) to putting myself into great debt, with the goal of acquiring a different set of walls and roof for my family and I to dwell within. Though I am also working to resurrect a development company, and gradually fund my own projects as my paycheck and other finances allow, as well as returning to EE/CE graduate program to learn some additional relevant engineering stuff that I've either forgotten since my CE BS in 1998, or haven't had the experience of before, so also do things as time allows, which is actually a more challenging obstacle than money is.
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2014, 11:06:45 AM »
Do you have much money to invest in Amiga?
Amiga 500 with ROMs 1.3-2.05 and M-Tec AT 500 with hard disk and 4MB Ram.
WinUAE + Original OS 3.5&3.9
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2014, 12:57:16 PM »
If I had the cash: New A1200s with up to date connectivity and choice of 68030 or 68060 with a boat load of fastmem.
 

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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2014, 02:47:22 PM »
Warren Buffet could resurrect the Amiga!
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2014, 02:57:59 PM »
There is no IP left, it all expired.  There is simply the domain name, the right to make computers named Amiga and copyright on the AmigaOS.  Hardly worth worrying about, especially since Amiga Inc has permanently given the rights to develop AmigaOS to Hyperion.
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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2014, 03:31:13 PM »
If I had lots of money and the know how, I would make a tablet computer with an FPGA and Arm processor and port both the Amiga os and Android to it making it dual boot
 

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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2014, 04:01:58 PM »
What is the cost estimate for the Amiga rights?
 

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Re: I wanted to own amiga rights
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2014, 05:18:04 PM »
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What is the cost estimate for the Amiga rights?


There's no reason to estimate it when you can simply write to Darren Cohen and ask what he wants. (evil grin)

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