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30.Apr.2007
Mikey C (ANF)


Petition: Appeal to Amiga Inc. and Hyperion
Linked to the header Mikey "Mikey C" Carillo established a petition to call Amiga Inc. and Hyperion to a cooperativness. The correct wording is:

"We, the undersigned ask that Amiga inc and Hyperion Entertainment to put aside their differences and work together to ensure the success of the Amiga platform for the benefit of all fans of the Amiga operating system."

The author hopes that many signatures changes the political way of both companies. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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30.Apr.2007
Amiga, Inc.


Amiga Inc./ACK: Details of "Entry Level"-Hardware
Press release:
Issaquah, Wash and Fonthill, ON Canada – April 29, 2007 – ACK Controls and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the base hardware design that will address the needs of the Amiga market as well offering expansion into other markets. “The first product release is designed for flexibility and meeting the needs of the Amiga user, as well as offer a design that takes advantage of available hardware”, said Adam Kowalczyk President of ACK Systems This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $ 489.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started. * Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target) * 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs. * 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards. * 2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion. * 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports. * 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports. * 2 (two) serial ports. * 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller. * Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738. * Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware. * Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage) * Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder. * Standard ATX power supply connector. “Amiga is please to be working with ACK Controls and believe that by using flexible designs and aggressive manufacturing practices we will be able to deliver to our customers a great product at a great price”, said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc. Manufacturing partner and final ship schedule will be following soon. About Amiga Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com. About ACK ACK Software Controls, Inc. specializes in the area of embedded controls design for use in automation systems where low-power consumption and reliability is an absolute must. Concentrating on design for manufacturing with local manufacturing facilities has allowed ACK to quickly and cost-effectively develop solutions for customers with low-volume requirements. By integrating hardware, firmware, and device driver engineering capability in-house, ACK can provide complete turn-key solutions to customers. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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30.Apr.2007



Amiga Inc.: "Lizenz agreement closed" / Lawsuit against Hyperion (Update 3)
"In 2001, Amiga, Inc. entered into a license for the development of AmigaOS 4.0 with AmigaOne(TM) Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. The license agreement was terminated on December 20, 2006."

This was the same time as the "Final Update" of AmigaOS 4.0 was released on Christmas (amiga-news.de reports).

More information about the closed lizence and the matter about the development and the relation to the buyback of the Operatingsystem by Amiga Inc 2003 are still open at the moment.

Update: (14:40, 30.04.07, snx)
Acc. Justitia.com has Amiga Inc. on 26. April at Washington Western Federal District Court open a Lawsuit due to a breach against the brand against Hyperion.

Update 2: (19:15, 30.04.07, snx)
Rich Woods provides a link for the complete case: Case.PDF

(snx) (Translation: aj)

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30.Apr.2007
4Players.de (Webseite)


Turrican: 3D-Version for the PlayStation 3?
Linked to the header is a interview with Julian Eggebrecht Presidenten from Factor 5.

On Page 4 will be talk about the possibility of a 3D-Version of the Classic-Game Turrican for the PlayStation 3, which was developed for the C64 and Amiga. But the work was started only with the internal concept at the moment. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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29.Apr.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


AROS for AmigaOS: Updates to icon.library and picture.datatype for AfA
Bernd Roesch has released updates to icon.library as well as to picture.datatype for his AmigaOS port of AROS components, "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA).

With these, it is now possible to employ the Workbench plugin Eastern for generating thumbnail icons under AfA as well (reported by amiga-news.de).
more ... (snx) (Translation: cad)

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