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  1. Title link are unavailable in mobile view mode by aglider · · Score: 1 · on AmigaOS 3.1.4 For Classic Amigas Released (hyperion-entertainment.com)

    http://www.hyperion-entertainm...

    Is there anyone who knows enough to fix this?

  2. Re:Linux by kegon · · Score: 0 · on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out

    But can it run....

    AmigaOS 4 ?!!

  3. Re:Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Return of the Commodore?

    It's amazing how someone always has to whine about something that interests other people. The large majority think this is cool. The former zealots for a given platform that has moved on tend to get all defensive about their choice. "Let's move on". "It's dead!". Hell no it isn't. You're just not using it. Both the C64 and Amiga are alive and well. The latter is still waiting for the rest of the world to really catch up. If I wanted another platform I'd have no alternative - and no, no matter how nice OS X, Linux etc. are by now, they don't replace the real deal.

  4. Re:I feel a song coming on... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Return of the Commodore?

    Remember when computing used to be fun? Some of us do.

  5. Re:After all... by StarWreck · · Score: 4, Informative · on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million

    The company making the new Amiga hardware is Eyetech Group, Ltd.

    The company making the new Amiga Operating System is Hyperion Entertainment

    And an example of one of the dozen or so online stores that currently sell the new Amiga Hardware coupled with the new Amiga operating system as well as Classic Amiga Hardware and Software is Vesalia Online --- Thats right! You can already buy it!!!!

  6. Re:Slashdotted already by Seehund · · Score: -1, Troll · on AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release

    Here is Hyperion Entertainment's announcement. The link in the /. article goes to a rather disgusting corporate fansite (deceitfully labelled "Amiga community portal") that's best left alone in their alternate reality.

  7. Re:Amiga sold it LAST year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Amiga Sells AmigaOS

    Here's the same press release dated March 15 on Hyperion's site: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/_amiga/news_ 040316.html

    Sell the company a year ago. Let your partner announce it earlier than you do but don't confirm or deny. Very strange.

  8. Re:If you want serious software then go elsewhere by POds · · Score: 1 · on Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

    New PPC machines have been released. You can buy them now from a dealer new your or from the manufactorer...

    The boards are as follows.
    Pegasos From Genisi

    AmigaOne From Eyetech Based on MAI Teron design.

    Soon Pegasos II From Genisi

    The pegasos board runs various operating systems including the flagship os MorphOS

    AmigaOnes run the new AmigaOS4 developed by Hyperion Entertainment.

  9. New stuff from Hyperion by An+Ominous+Cow+Erred · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Linux Gaming after Loki

    Hyperion just completed an agreement with IncaGold to bring their games to Amiga, MacOS, and Linux, the first title being Midnight Racing. Here's to giving Linux another shot. ::raises glass::

  10. Re:Games, Games, Games by dtosti · · Score: 1 · on What MorphOS Is All About

    The only game company that support PPC is Hyperion Entertainment (ported or porting freespace, worms: armageddon, heretic2 and shogo to amiga), but they're going to support AmigaOS4 instead, since they bought the right to develop and maintain it. ;-)

    I think they're the only people on amigascene with the know-how and the guts to get your favourite FPS on amiga (they also maintain a quake2 aniga GPL'ed port).

    So, forget MorphOS and Pegasos, please :)

  11. No Amigas by Seehund · · Score: 5, Informative · on PPC Amigas Go On Sale
    This "story" is horribly misleading, it's almost as if somebody made a cut-n-paste from the Eyetech marketing...

    No, there are no "new Amigas." No, nobody will make any "new Amigas."

    Hardware has no longer got anything to do with anything "Amiga."

    Once upon a time (almost two years ago), the UK Amiga shop Eyetech became "hardware partners" of the new company "Amiga Inc." They were to provide actual new PPC Amiga hardware, and contracted the German firm Escena to design it. This failed. I'm sure those "AmigaOne 1200/4000" motherboards are still praised somewhere on the horribly outdated amiga.com web site.

    Instead, AmigaOS 4 and newer will run on third party PPC hardware. That could of course have been fantastic news, but for some reason Eyetech, as a thank you for services not rendered and already being a "partner," got to invent a compulsory hardware-licensing scheme.

    In order to see AmigaOS run on a piece of hardware, a hardware vendor has to:
    • Get a license from Amiga Inc., both for himself and his hardware.
    • Become an AmigaOS vendor, distribute AmigaOS together with his hardware and provide software support.
    • Apply some form of hardware-license verification mechanism, a dongle, to his hardware.

    AmigaOS will NOT be sold separate from hardware.

    Not very surprisingly, Eyetech is the only distributor that has accepted Amiga Inc's and Eyetech's rules. They are now distributing Mai Logic's Teron CX and Teron PX POP motherboards under the trademarks "AmigaOne SE" and "AmigaOne XE" respectively. (NB: the 4 figure price listed on Mai's Teron CX page is for a developer board including unlimited dev tech support, they sell their commercial version for $500). The market for the exact same hardware is split up into one microscopic "for AmigaOS" part and one "for everyone else" part.

    If you're interested in AmigaOS, you're not allowed to buy it. You have to buy a new Teron board via the sole Amiga Inc-licensed hardware distributor Eyetech. You aren't allowed to buy a board cheaper directly from Mai. A very easily made port to other POP boards like e.g. the Pegasos, or to (in comparison) cheaply and abundantly available PowerMacs can't happen until someone decides to become an Amiga Inc licensee and AmigaOS distributor, and renames the hardware to "Amiga."

    In one blow, AmigaOS by default lost every possible hardware option on the planet, except for the "licensed" one.

    "Why do they not want to sell AmigaOS?" you ask. Who knows. Amiga Inc is a newly formed company that has nothing to do with AmigaOS (and certainly nothing to do with any hardware), their interest lies in selling their "content engine" AACE/AmigaDE to PDA and mobile phone vendors, and distributing third party developers' little games for that thing. Apparently, and judging from their silence in response to e.g. this petition from AmigaOS fans, they seem to just not care as long as they get some licensing cash from a few Teron boards sold to trademark fanatics. The only apparent beneficiary of this damn ludicrous mess is the sole licensed hardware distributor, Eyetech. Hyperion, the company that has taken over AmigaOS development, has repeatedly stated that they themselves naturally are interested in seeing AmigaOS run on as much hardware as possible, and since AmigaOS no longer is tightly coupled to custom chips or something like that, the HAL is very easily portable.

  12. Adding some facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS

    To begin with, the name Amiga was bought by Amino in the begining of year 2000, so no, Gateway don't own Amiga longer. I think Gateway owns the patents thought.

    The new AmigaOS4 is a port of the old ones for PPC, and porting is if I have got everything right mostly made by Hyperion(http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/).

    The first AmigaOnes will have a G3@600MHz, but will probably ship with G4s later.

    Bplan (http://www.b-plan.gmbh.de/) makes their own Pegasos PPC motherboard which might at some stage run AmigaOS but to begin with with run Linux or MorphOS (http://www.morphos.de/). The Pegasos is a dual PPC motherboard and can use both G3 and G4.

    I always liked Amiga, I still do, and I will probably always do. But I really think it's to late and to slow progress, but who knows. One day...

    // Hagge, IRCnet

  13. WineX is great but support the Ported Games! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on WineX 2.0

    Support people that porth the games!! I mean Wine is nice for trying to get people to use linux, but in the long run we need ported games! - - Happy Peguin - Hyperion - - Tux Games - Introversion . .. plus hunt for more!

  14. Re:Lokigames by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nokia Set-top Boxes to Ship with AmigaDE

    The sad thing is hyperion-entertainment, another company porting Windows games to Linux/Amiga/Mac said that they've stopped doing Linux games too- and that their Amiga ports where outselling their Linux titles. Maybe Loki should have done some amiga ports- they might still be around. :)

  15. Re:I wept silently to myself, when I read this. by Derfs · · Score: 1 · on Running AmigaOS on a PC (The Proper Way)

    AmigaOS 4 (meant to be released to developers this month) is being designed for PPC computers by Hyperion and a few extra Amiga developers they have hired.

    It is aimed to work on new PPC hardware designed by eyetech and bplan, as well as current amigas that have older 603 and 604 PPC processors like the blizzard and cyberstorm accelerator cards, allowing people to use existing equipment, or newer equipment that allows use of off the shelf PC items such as PCI cards etc.

    There are other PPC expansions coming out and they may be supported as well.

    x86 is not a goal for AOS4, as to change it for that, instead of going the naturla route of 680x0 to PPC, would take a lot longer, and people want product asap (as always).

    all this is just a small piece of the market Amiga is aiming for anyway, and has aimed for since they were created. See this recent interview with CEO Bill McEwan for what is currently on the minds of Amiga.

  16. Re:same old bull again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Maxis Developer on Linux Game Porting

    Actually, hyperion made a decent amount by porting PC games to Amigas with 3D cards (a tiny market, but pretty much every person in it buys a copy of every game they release). Hyperion have branched out into Linux and Mac ports.

    Clickboom also make a respectable amount from the Amiga games market - "napalm" in particular was a big hit, and is also available for the PC.

    That said, their presence in the amiga market probably meant that there wasn't room for much else :-).