01.May.2017
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.11
Yannick Erb's "ZunePaint" is a simple bitmap graphics program for AROS. Changes in version 0.11:
- added possibility to "stretch" clipboard and text objects
- remove use of static variable in mcc_Pictdisp.c
- added Eraser function
- tolerance range extended to 0-255
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01.May.2017
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.5.2 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
For the program currently there is only a closed Facebook group, but the authors also can be contacted via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded using Google Drive.
Changes in version 0.5.2:
- In Animation Menu offset of each frame can now be changed by dragging the image with the mouse
- In game setup you can select if you want enemies to collide against other enemies to avoid them using the same space
- Edit Level has been renamed to edit map, map now only refers to the level tilemap
- Background image in map edit screen can now be removed using the new Remove button
- Load map and Save map features have been added
- Added a condition trigger to check tiles with a comparison. Old one is keep for compatibility
- Added condition trigger to check if tile is solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
- Added condition trigger to check if tile is not solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
- Added action trigger to go to the next level (this sounded epic)
- Added action trigger to reload trigger. Right now it does the same as restart level, but in the future reload will reset the tile status of the map
- Added action trigger to change Display Offset of the object
- Added action trigger to change Size of the object collision box. Use it with caution
- Animation player in animation screen now takes into consideration the target frame rate of the game
- Tile border parameter for the tilesets is working again
- Fix for the issue causing past keys to be written when clicking on an edit gadget
- Fixed a graphic glitch when changing levels both in the editor and the player
- Fixed an issue with condition parameters not being edited correctly
- Fixed an issue causing a crash when using a background image for the level without tileset
- Fixed a glitch when going from animation screen to the main screen
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01.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present version 2.0 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. This program allows the conversion of Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK packages that can then be published on the Google Play Store or distributed in an other way.
Once the Hollywood APK Compiler has been set up, the conversion of a Hollywood applet into an APK file takes only a few seconds. Additionally, the Hollywood APK Compiler can also install the generated APK file onto an Android device connected via USB.
Version 2.0 is a major update that adds support for the Gradle build system. A few months ago, the Android SDK build system was changed from Apache Ant to Gradle. The Hollywood APK Compiler now supports this new build system. Version 2.0 also erases the dependency on Cygwin meaning the Hollywood APK Compiler can be used without Cygwin now. Finally, version 2.0 also allows you to set the Android target version. If you set this to 3.0, your app will no longer be marked as "Designed for phones" on the Play Store.
This update is provided free of charge for all licensees of the Hollywood APK Compiler and can be downloaded from the restricted download section.
The Hollywood APK Compiler comes with a convenient GUI that allows you to convert your Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK files with just a few mouse clicks. A detailed documentation of all the program's features is also included. The APKs generated by the Hollywood APK Compiler will run on all ARM-based Android devices that run at least Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).
The program's license also allows you to sell the apps created by the Hollywood APK Compiler without any restrictions or royalties. So there is nothing stopping you from getting rich quickly with your Hollywood applets on the Google Play Store now! Programming and publishing for Android has really never been so easy!
So get ready for Android development and purchase the Hollywood APK Compiler now on the official Hollywood portal! This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.
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01.May.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 92 to 94:
- Interview with Phlippe Ulrich
- Review of Magic Pockets
- Review of Elf
- File: Conception of a game scenario
- Interview with Stewart Gliray
- Review of Hunter
- Review of Gauntlet 3
- Comparison: Platforms/action games from 1990-1991
- Report: Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1991
- Hardware: 1000SU
- Review of Hero Quest
- Interview with Olivier Plaisier and Alan Kerjean
- Interview with Erwan Jestin (Happiga developper)
- Review of Emotion
- Hardware: Amiga 3000T
- DIY: Build your Amiga arcade joystick
- File: History of the magazine Amiga Information Online
- File: Biography of Muriel Tramis
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to ASDG?
- File: Amiga history, year 2002 (update)
- Tutorial: Recording an LP with Audio Evolution 4
- Galleries: Mike Dafunk's gallery
- Special quiz about the AmigaOne X5000
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30.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 29th, 2017:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 1.8M OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 6.4M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 702K MOS Advanced snake game
abacus_src.lha game/board 108K Abacus source code
GloomTrainer_src.lha game/patch 12K Gloom trainer source code
SeaShell_src.lha gfx/3d 221K SeaShell source code
plplot68k-5.0.1.lha gfx/show 3.3M 68k PLPLOT Plotting Library
Handy095.lha misc/emu 182K 68k Atari Lynx emulator
Handy095-OS4.lha misc/emu 228K OS4 Atari Lynx emulator
YAG_Genesis_src.lha misc/emu 46K YAG_Genesis source code
acalc_src.lha misc/math 55K ACalc source code
convcalc_src.lha misc/math 34K ConvCalc source code
MathPaint_src.lha misc/math 39K MathPaint source code
izmirmarsi_mod.lha mods/pro 146K izmir marsi by emarti
BootManager_src.lha util/boot 26K BootManager source code
FocusWindow_src.lha util/cdity 13K FocusWindow source code
StringInOut_src.lha util/cdity 15K StringInOut source code
PCalc_src.lha util/cli 16K PCalc source code
RndBG_src.lha util/wb 17K RndBG source code
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30.Apr.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 29th, 2017:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 285kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
handy-jacobs.lha emu/gam 228kb 4.0 Atari Lynx emulator
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
reactivetls.lha net/mis 704kb 4.1 ReactiveTLS is a TLS lib for sec...
enewsreader.lha net/new 2Mb 4.1 News reader for RSS, Atom, Twitt...
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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30.Apr.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 29th, 2017:
jfif.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 109kb jfif.library
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30.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Atom Demo IV Soundtrack (Strange Days 2017 Refurbish)
- Pinball Dreams (Beatbox Ingame Remix)
- Enigma - A Final Hyperbase (Piepie Remix)
- Return To Monkey Island Theme
- Ecolove VS Ghost In The Shell voices
- Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit]
- Apidya - Meadow's Edge (EXON 2017's REMIX)
- SWIV (Decimation Remix)
- Apidya - Meadow's Edge
- Elf - Forest world [2017 Remix]
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30.Apr.2017
Achim Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: First upgrade for ignition-OpenDocument support
In December Achim Pankalla released an extension for the spreadsheet ignition, which added the option of reading and writing OpenDocument files (amiga-news.de reported). This format is used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice-Calc, but also can be imported and exported by any other spreadsheets.
Version 0.20 of this addon now provides a first update of the functions and some bugs fixes. ignition 1.0 beta4 and AmigaOS 4.1 FinalEdition are required.
For this addon still is a beta version, the author asks for your comments, bug reports and possible updates for functions. Please write them in the forum of OS4Welt.
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30.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2017 from October 19th to 22nd
This year the AmiWest will take place from October 19th to 22nd in the capital city of California, Sacramento in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard.
Schedule of the event:
- AmigaOS DevCon starts on Thursday Oct 19, 2017 through Friday, October 20, 2017
- Classic Clinic starts at 5 PM on Friday Oct 20, 2017
- Show doors open at 10 AM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
- Banquet starts at 7 PM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
- Sunday starts at 10 AM on Sunday Oct 22, 2017
- Doors close at 4 PM Sunday Oct 22, 2017
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30.Apr.2017
VisioRetron (Forum)
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External HDMI-converter D520 in development
Thorsten Schubert is working on a device, which converts the analogue video signal of the Amiga as well as the sound into a digital signal in order to make it possible using current monitors with a HDMI-port. The external module will be connected to the video port of the Amiga.
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30.Apr.2017
AMiGA4Ever (Kommentar)
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Archive.org: Software Library Amiga online again
In August Jason Scott made available an Amiga software library in the Internet archive Archive.org which only worked for few days. Now it is online again.
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27.Apr.2017
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Amiga 32: Further guests and exhibitors announced
The organizers of the "Amiga 32" which will take place on 28. October in Neuss, have completed the list of guests and exhibitors:
- Return Magazin
- ACube Systems
- Dave Haynie
- ARES Computer
- Amedia Computer
- Ron Nicholson
- Mike Clark und Tim Wright (Psygnosis)
- A1200.net
- Hyperion
- Individual Computers
- Salvador Gomez
- Dr. Tim King und Jessica King
- A-EON Technology
- Trevor Dickinson
- Dr. Petter Kittel
- Richard Löwenstein
- Birgit Roßmöller
- Frank Geisler
- Perry Kivolowitz
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27.Apr.2017
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Hollywood: Graphics library G2D 1.8
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's G2D (demo video) is a graphics library for Hollywood programmers, which provides commands, objects and methods for manipulating 2D-graphics and offers a skinning system. G2D also is used in Falcucci's GUI-system HGUI.
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27.Apr.2017
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AmigaOS4: eNewsReader R1
Chris Handley's commercial "eNewsReader" follows RSS and Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Facebook acounts but "you will need to give eNewsReader permission to access your Timeline posts on Facebook."
Currently you can download a "trial" version from the website of the author which is not limited. After a certain period of time and the amount of downloaded files, the author will decide how much the full version of eNewsReader will cost.
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23.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present version 1.1 of one of the most popular Hollywood plugins: RapaGUI. RapaGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the creation of native (!) GUIs for AmigaOS- (MUI), Windows-, Linux- (GTK) and Mac OS X-based systems! GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!
RapaGUI supports all the widgets you need to create modern GUI applications, including multi-column listviews, treeviews, tabbed page widgets, toolbars, status bars, text editor widgets, menu bars, HTML views and much more. The highlight of RapaGUI, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MOAI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into GUIs which can be used to combine Hollywood's powerful multimedia functionality with RapaGUI's GUI abilities into one powerful application.
RapaGUI 1.1 is a major update and contains the following new features:
- Unicode support (requires Hollywood 7)
- 64-bit support on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (requires Hollywood 7)
- Drag'n'drop support
- Combobox class greatly enhanced
- Lots of new functions for Choice class
- Online help for the Windows IDE (requires Hollywood 7)
- Support for high DPI monitors (requires Hollywood 7)
- Several other smaller improvements and bug fixes
RapaGUI comes with almost 300 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide and CHM that describes the GUI programming basics in detail and provides a convenient MOAI function and class reference. A step-by-step tutorial that guides you to your first RapaGUI program is also included. On top of that, almost 20 example scripts are included in the distribution archive, including advanced scripts like a complete video player, which really show off the power of Hollywood and RapaGUI working together.
All this makes RapaGUI the ultimate cross-platform GUI toolkit, carefully crafted for you sailors of the seven GUI seas! Only RapaGUI allows rapid cross-platform GUI development on all islands - it is the ultimate fusion of all the different OS GUI toolkits into one MOAI face, carved in stone for eternity and beyond. RapaGUI is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at hollywood-mal.com. Versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are provided. AmigaOS users please do note that although RapaGUI is still compatible with MUI 3.8, it is highly recommended to install MUI 4.0 to use all of RapaGUI's features.
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23.Apr.2017
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Distribution: AROS Broadway 1.0 Preview 8 available
Preview 8 of Pascal Papara's AROS-distribution "AROS Broadway" includes new client versions for accessing his "AmiCloud" and "indieGO!-Appstore". Otherwise this version does not provide any other changes.
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23.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (ab 11.04.2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week.
Week of April 11th to April 17th:
- GIT for AROS native (Kalamatee)
- Build system improvements / fixes (Kalamatee)
- Nouveau wait_event implemented, lock added (mschulz)
- MUI autodocs improved (neil)
- Moved iconv to contrib (Kalamatee)
- Various source code cleanups for m68k/gcc-4.6 (wawa)
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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium evaluation version 0.1
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. He has released an early evaluation version of MUIMapparium for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ARM) under the title link.
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23.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 22th, 2017:
ShimmerDB_src.lha biz/dbase 40K ShimmerDB source code
eNewsReader.lha comm/news 2.1M OS4 News reader for RSS, Atom, Tw...
acc.lha dev/asm 20M 68k Amiga Coders Club diskset f. ...
vda68k.lha dev/asm 70K MOS Portable M68k disassembler w/...
vdappc-mos.lha dev/asm 37K MOS A PowerPC disassembler w/ Alt...
ShapeGen_src.lha dev/basic 16K ShapeGen source code
luaexplorador.lha dev/debug 59K MOS GUI based source level debugg...
WormWars.lha game/actio 796K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
GDTrainer_src.lha game/patch 12K GDTrainer source code
daleks_halibut.lha game/wb 46K Daleks (Halibut) game
daleks_halibut_src.lha game/wb 31K Daleks (Halibut) source code
Greedium.lha game/wb 863K MOS A small mui game about numbers
lw_wheel_tutorial.lha gfx/3d 1.0M LW tutorial for accurate rota...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 648K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
RNOAnim.lha gfx/show 1.9M MOS Animation player, converter, ...
RNOAnim_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.2M OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
ShapeShifter_src.lha misc/emu 317K ShapeShifter source code
mathx_src.lha misc/math 342K mathX source code
23Nisan_mod.lha mods/pro 58K 23Nisan by emarti
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 6.5M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
wpls2rtf.lha text/misc 152K MOS Convert First Word format to ...
KPatch_src.lha util/boot 3K KPatch source code
MakeHex.lha util/conv 151K MOS Convert an IRP file to Pronto...
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
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23.Apr.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 22th, 2017:
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
pythonssl.lha lib/mis 103kb 4.1 AmiSSL 4 based Python SSL Module
amisocial.lha uti/com 1Mb 4.1 A simple gnusocial client to upd...
rnoanim.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Animation player, converter, and...
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23.Apr.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.04.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until April 22th, 2017:
- 2017-04-17 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) access fault fixed, 2nd joystick can be disabled, quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 22 - Interview with new Amiga user
In its 22nd issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked in his podcast Amicast to 'slygon' from the forum Amiga.org. The AmigaOne X5000 is the first Amiga system to Eric at all.
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19.Apr.2017
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Trademark: Application of new "Commodore" refused
Two years ago, Italian Massimo Canigiani tried to have the mark "Commodore" registered in the European trademark registry using his UK based company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.". Although the design of Canigiani's mark was pretty much identical to the famous original mark - which is still listed as active in the very same EU trademark registry - he hoped to get away with this by applying for registration in a different procduct area (smartphones). But this hope has been dashed: The owner of the original trademark successfully appealed against Canigiani's application last autumn.
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19.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Memory extension A512 can be preordered
Under the title link Individual Computers has announced that the 512-KB memory extension will be available from 26. May. You can already order for about 25 Euro in advance.
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18.Apr.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiModRadio 0.998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." Version 0.998 provides bug fixes and adds another source, "The Module Archive".
You can report other bugs using the bugtracker.
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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.2.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.2.0 provides some minor improvements for updating the display and for changing the window size. Besides, minor bugs were fixed and a German and Spanish translation added.
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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga demos of Revision 2017
On Easter weekend the this year's demo scene party Revision took place. The Amiga Future has listed some videos of Amiga demos which have been released there.
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17.Apr.2017
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Amiga Inc. loses US trademark, new registrations from Cloanto and Hyperion
For years, Amiga, Inc. has been losing registered trademarks (examples: 1, 2) since expiring registrations were not renewed in time - but so far, only duplicate registrations or less important marks ("powered by Amiga") had been affected. On December 31 the final deadline for extending the registration of the only remaining US "Amiga" trademark expired: for a short period of time, the term was not a registered mark in the United States.
It looks like Italian software developer Cloanto, who acquired most of the Amiga copyrights in 2012, has been following these developments closely: On January 2 - i.e. the first working day after Amiga, Inc's trademark expired - Cloanto
applied for the "Amiga" trademark. The company already owns the registered US marks "Workbench" and "Amiga Forever".
It seems that Hyperion was not as alert: It took them until February to apply for their own marks. According to the information available so far, Hyperion did not try to dispute Cloanto's application for the "Amiga" mark, the Belgium company responsible for AmigaOS 4 applied for AmigaOS, BoingBall and AmigaOne. These trademarks, which had not or no longer been registered before, were originally licensed to Hyperion in the 2009 settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc. - apparently Hyperion's management operates under the assumption that Amiga, Inc. will be unable or uninterested in defending these marks after losing the more important "Amiga" mark.
After losing the US Amiga mark, the most important trademark registration still owned by Amiga, Inc. (list of US and European Amiga marks) is probably the registration of the "AMIGA" trademark with the European Intellectual Property Office, which expires in May 2018. This registration covers all of Europe, including countries like Germany or the UK - where the local "Amiga" registrations have already expired aswell.
Note from the editor: In all public trademark databases, Amiga, Inc's original Amiga trademark is still listed as active - trademark offices usually take several months to update their databases once a mark expires. But the entry in the US Patent and Trademark Office's database (search for serial number 73571532) features a section labeled "TSDR" which has a "Documents" tab containing a list of submitted documents - the most recent one is dated 2006 - and a "Maintainance" tab offering a pretty definite statement regarding missing documents.
Update: (18.04.2017, 15:00, cg)
Hyperion has not only applied for the "AmigaOne" mark, it is also trying to register the "AmigaOS" mark and the BoingBall. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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