As already mentioned before the work of the original authors is respected and acknowledged. They are invited to talk to the apollo team directly.
Which they did not want to...
It may not be fair but it is legal. That's an important difference.
Remind me next time you complain about missing drivers or missing initiative for Amiga development.
AFAIK the "documentation" came from looking at the open-source implementation in uaegfx.
That's what I guessed, yes. Hence, no official API documentation.
This is almost funny. First you use the author's hurt feelings as an argument and then you say they weren't even interested enough to take part in the negotiations and of all possible companies left it to Hyperion to make a deal? And Hyperion itself negotiated with a potential licensee while trying to take over the rights to the product to be licensed? Do you understand what you are saying there? I had to look up the English term because I don't deal with penal law: this could be a case of breach of trust on the side of the proxy ("Untreue" in German).
Not at all. Again, you were not part of the negotiations, so you do not know. But please don't make up nonsense. T&A wanted to license to Hyperion to get a guaranteed stream of income. Hyperion wanted to licence to Gunnar. Everybody was informed on this deal, there was nothing hidden from any party. T&A did not want to make a deal with Gunnar directly. One can speculate why, I don't know. Probably too much hassle. With Hyperion, it would be one-time deal, money paid, deal done. With Gunnar, it means continuously checking the sales numbers and sending invoices. But one way or another: I do not know, but I neither make up my truth.
Hyperion pays people? I hope the contractors demand up-front payment.
Guess what.
People "like you" but not you? Or do you have an interest in this deal yourself?
I *had* an interest in this deal, though it's surely not a task for a single man. I do not have any interest anymore. What for? It's not that there is any market anymore.
Given the reactions here, there is neither an interest in an updated AmigaOs, nor in updates for P96. So why should I invest any work into such an activity? I've a lot of other things to do these days. These ideas are dead, deceased, ceased to be, and have seen its maker. AmigaOs is finally, completely, utterly dead. Whether that's good or bad is of course everybodies choice.
If the community wants to go AROS, why should I stop them? But then, if everyone is begging for OpenSource, please be also so honest and open the source completely, and with full consequences. That means:
*) Do not build on a proprietary interface. Create your own, and open source that interface. You would probably notice how much work went into it and would appreciate the work of the original authors.
*) Do not build on a proprietary FPGA solution. Open source the solution as well.
I *really* wonder whether Gunnar is fair enough to release the sources of his FPGA, or rather whether he wants to sell his own work on the back of free software developers. I personally would not want to work for free to fill somebody else's pocket. But again, that's just me. As said, I'm an old fashioned guy.
