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`05.Jul.2021` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Apollo team: change in staff, new accelerator boards annouced As announced by Apollo team at the title link, Igor Majstorovic, developer of the Vampire accelerator boards, has left the group. On the other hand, Thomas Hirsch returned, the original developer of the former Natami project. The press release mentions the high workload Igor Majstorovic suffered from manufacturing the Vampire boards. Despite his withdrawal, he will still assume warranties for the cards he sold, though, while obviously the new board "Raptor" is affected. The latter was intended as a reduced version of the Vampire and should have been available in May already. Instead, Apollo team announced two new accelerator boards. FireBird (for Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000) and IceDrake (for Amiga 1200), which are based on the Vampire 4 core. At the same time, the Vampire 2 boards have reached their end of sale, remaining PCB and FPGA stock is currently being sold. The new accelerator boards are announced for Q4 2021/Q1 2022, beginning with FireBird being available first, followed closely by IceDrake - a third board, then for Amiga 4000, would be planned as well. Production will be taking place in Germany and in high volume, thus a quick clearing of waiting lists is expected by the team. Estimated prices have not been mentioned yet. Features of FireBird and IceDrake: Cyclone 5 (FPGA chip of Vampire 4) 512 MB DDR3 RAM 68080 CPU implementation SAGA chipset implementation 64-bit AMMX instruction set (accelerated multi media output) 165 MIPS 16-bit audio 100 MBit Ethernet adapter two IDE ports for CompactFlash and CD-ROM USB joypad support real-time clock (snx) [News message: 05. Jul. 2021, 18:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2021` Twitter	Amigakit threatening to oppose registration of 'Amiga Addict' mark in the UK British print magazine Amiga Addict started publishing half a year ago on a mostly monthly schedule. Back in February, publisher Simulant Systems Ltd. filed a trademark application for the magazine's name and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). As Simulant is now announcing on Twitter, British Amiga dealer AmigaKit is trying to oppose that registration. AmigaKit's reaction to the announcement was also posted on Twitter: According to them, the notice the publisher received is not opposition, it's (quote) "simply a formal standard mechanism to give us up to a month to communicate with Simulant Systems Ltd." Note from staff: According UK IPO, the process used by AmigaKit does indeed extend the registration process by a month automatically. But it is actually referred to as "Notice of threatened opposition", and Simulant's answer to the Amigakit statement makes it clear that so far, there have been no attempts to communicate. (cg) [News message: 24. Jun. 2021, 01:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.May.2021` Amigaworld.net (forum)	Lawsuit: Cloanto applies for admittance of Evert Carton as witness Regarding the lawsuit with Hyperion, Cloanto and the Amiga parties applied to vacate and reset the pre-trial calendar (PDF file). Given the differing motions for a summary judgement by Hyperion and themselves, respectively, and that they do not know which causes of action will go to trial or even whether trial will occur, they would be unable to efficiently prepare for trial within the short time remaining. Also for Hyperion the date set by the court for trial, June 14, would be too early, according to Cloanto and the Amiga parties. Furthermore they apply to depose Evert Carton, who would have recently come forward with potentially admissible and highly relevant evidence. Carton would have had negotiated the settlement agreement with Amiga Inc. on Hyperion's behalf back in 2009 that is pivot to the current lawsuit (amiga-news.de reported). He was, besides Ben Hermans, one of the two co-founders of Hyperion and a managing partner, being solely responsible for the administrative work since 2003. In 2011 he announced to leave Hyperion. The lack of a joint stipulation with Hyperion for rescheduling the pre-trial calendar would be caused by the counterparty. Each time the attorneys of Cloanto and the Amiga parties sending a draft for a joint motion, the responses and requests for revisions would have come from Hyperion’s director himself, using his law office e-mail address, instead of Hyperion's attorney of record. Without going the official way, plaintiffs’ attorneys would not have been able to submit a joint document to the court in time. Hyperion's attorney would have confirmed, though, that neither party would be ready for trial on the date set so far. Regarding the trial itself, based on the motion by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Hyperion wishes to proceed with an in-person trial by jury. The former instead would be willing to proceed as the court wishes, including a trial by videoconference without a jury, if doing so would expedite resolution of this case. (snx) [News message: 23. May. 2021, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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