via the Hyperion Facebook account...

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Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation agree to pause legal proceedings Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation have entered into temporary agreements to pause their ongoing legal proceedings and enable both parties to better engage in settlement negotiations and work toward a resolution. As part of these agreements, Hyperion Entertainment BV will make AmigaOS 3.2 available in digital form. We remain committed to supporting the Amiga community and the continued evolution of AmigaOS. Thank you for your patience and support.

-- eliyahu

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A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.


Time to wear my rose-tinted glasses.

Woah and it is not even 1st April! Amiga/Cloanto need to give up their grifting, no results or actions for decades!

@kriz

it's as much as grifting as you paying for your landlord, i guess

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Great news, hopefully this doesn't break down and we all go back to square one. I still want to see OS3.3 come out.

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hopefully this doesn't break down

Isn’t that what "temporary" means?

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@kolla

it is not a final agreement but at least they agree final that they both want to earn money

@OlafS25

"final" doesn’t hold much meaning in Amiga land :)


Now, where are the announcements of Minuous quitting the OS team and IComp leaving Amiga?

(It’s funny to see how different the wordings are from Amiga and Hyperion on this temporary "agreement" to pause)

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Great to hear, my popcorn had run out

Hyperion & Amiga may finally see sense to just work together. Amikit 13, Amibench, Aros/Apollo prove you can move forward without them, so they should just work together and make great products for Amiga fans, I wonder if this will effect theA1200.

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@kolla

Actually I already left about six months ago when Costel Mincea suddenly decided for no apparent reason that OS3 developers shouldn't have any access to the OS4 codebase.

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@Minuous

Sweet! So maybe the OS4 cruft that was backported from OS4 will have to be reversed too? There’s hope!

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@mja65 from eab

Regarding the Hyperion EULAs have always been whack and Hyperion has never answered or cleared up any of it.

https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=45861#p45861

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eliyahu wrote: As part of these agreements, Hyperion Entertainment BV will make AmigaOS 3.2 available in digital form.

After AEon and Apollo refused to pay royalties for AOS3.x, the software was losing its significance.

@Minuous

that is indeed surprising if you look at how Hyperion benefitted financially from it. It was only income in recent years.

There is nothing surprising about Hyperion finally revoking the OS3 dev team's access to the OS4 code base - it simply means somebody at Hyperion is willing to respect other people's rights now. Better late than never, I guess.

The OS3 dev team should have never been given access to the OS4 code, because Hyperion did not actually have any rights to 90% of that code. Ben Hermans simply didn't care - and neither did the OS3 dev team.

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It's 2026, most moved on a long time ago.

They peed away the prime time when something could have happened, and none of us are getting any younger. The silly lawsuit went way way way to long and the bad will created won't bring many users and developers back that left.

I still prefer 3.9 more than the newer releases of 3.x still, although I own them. 3.2 cleans up some aspects of the OS and a few apps but it didn't move the system forward really. This isn't 1990 anymore where I would be happy with minor tweaks and bug fixes. Way to much time has passed for that.

At the end of the day, the software still isn't that good to just plain sucks and the stability and usability is just as bad.

I still love my classic hardware and OS and will play with it when time permits, but that is all. When I retire I will build the systems up again and waste weekends on them as a fun hobby, just to get a bridge board working or a network game playing or go outside and enjoy another hobby.

4.x still seems still to be splintered pieces that wastes time and doesn't have much to offer over 3.x. I don't even have 4.x anymore and if I did who would want to spend many hours just to get it going to do nothing.

So how much money and development and time will it take turn it around so people get something worth purchasing? I have no idea, and even if they did I'm not sure I would allocate the time to it at this point.

I don't want to be debbie downer but this was a total and complete mess, I mean how long have we been dealing with this stuff? I wish Amiga won the battle in the 80's and I wish it went on a different path and I wish the software was updated and capable, but it didn't and isn't.

We already have an Amiga inspired system that now has almost complete offerings for spreadsheet and word processing completing the suite of modern and actively developed software required for making it useful, so you can spend little money, get great performance/functionality and be up and going in 10 minutes in a stable and polished solution for those who want to still experience the Amiga "what if" and do their work on it.

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cgutjahr wrote: ... because Hyperion did not actually have any rights to 90% of that code. Ben Hermans simply didn't care - and neither did the OS3 dev team. ...

I thought Hyperion had only object files.

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@eliyahu

I hope this is a good sign and not just a temporary truce.


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