There is nothing more than what is in the news. I had contact to one of the new "cinemaware" owner. They only partly had the sourcecode so developing a successor is always meaning starting from scratch. They tried to get the money by kickstarter and failed and if they develop one of the games I see no big chance that they would create a version for a couple of hundred users (potential buyers), propably not even a AROS version. Propably something for mobile devices, XBox and PC (Windows/Linux). So do not interpret more in the news than there is.

@Robert

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Not everyone has upgraded to 4.1.

Ah ok, i thought you were speaking from a general POV and not for your own situation, which i remember from your own other thread.
OS4.1 has changed significantly from OS4.0 so a lot of things are starting to require OS4.1 as a minimum.
Especially in this regard - with latest updates - you have a preconfigured emulation environment with legal copies of the ROMs and OS3.

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OS4.1 has changed significantly from OS4.0 so a lot of things are starting to require OS4.1 as a minimum.

Indeed and I appreciate that.

I was just pointing out that I think they should either remove "all" or add "4.1" to:
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All registered AmigaOS owners now have access to these Cinemaware games at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz...

... because it is not accurate.

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legal copies of the ROMs and OS3

Which is also legally available to most people who bought classic Amigas.

URL of cinemaware on the news item lack the A (it's cinemAware.com not cinemware.com).

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@Channel_Z

So what? Do you have anything to add except stating the obvious? Of course downloading an ADF doesn't automatically mean that you can have a legit use of it unless you have either: a real Amiga (classic or OS4), Amiga Forever or AROS' replacement roms.
I thought this was obvious for everyone.

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@Robert
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Not everyone has upgraded to 4.1. If an up-to-date install of 4.1 is required to take advantage of this offer, it should be clearly stated.

It is in the news item, you must have missed it.
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Everything you need to run these classic Cinemaware games is already included in AmigaOS 4.1.

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@Swoop:

The announcement says:

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All registered AmigaOS owners now have access to these Cinemaware games at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz...

That is not accurate.

You must've missed it.

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Probably already reported... but the Hyperlink to Cinemaware in the news item is broken.

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Of course downloading an ADF doesn't automatically mean that you can have a legit use of it unless you have either: a real Amiga (classic or OS4), Amiga Forever or AROS' replacement roms.

Yes, AROS replacement ROMs, which are now bundled with the by far most used Amiga emulator, WinUAE, and thus automatically installed and available for free and legal use for anyone wishing to play those games in a modern computing environment.

My issue is with trying to pose something freely available for over a decade as "added value for our customers only". It's kind of like C=USA beating their drums over having VICE pre-installed in their Linux distro.

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Most cinemaware games do not work with Rom Replacements right now (except Wings) but that will certainly improve in future. It is not important anyway and we do not need to provocate each other.

Hyperion can offer some ADFs for download now. Not more not less. It does not mean any sort of "cooperation" or that Cinemaware will support AmigaOS as a major target platform now. If we want that kind of news again there must be offers that create interest by developers (new innovative concepts f.e.)

@Robert

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All registered AmigaOS owners now have access to these Cinemaware games at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz...

How is that not accurate?.

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Poster: SlayeR__ Date: 29-Jan-2013 13:28:55 @Robert Quote: All registered AmigaOS owners now have access to these Cinemaware games at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz... How is that not accurate?.

It says all registered AmigaOS owners have access.

They don't.

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@Robert,
Don't fret too much - you can download them from Cinemaware directly, just like people have been doing since 2001:

http://www.cinemaware.com/games/

Run them on any system that can emulate an Amiga, just like you would with OS4.

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@Jorkany:

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Don't fret too much - you can download them from Cinemaware directly, just like people have been doing since 2001

Yes, I know. I already own boxed versions of two of them and downloaded most of the rest ages ago.
However, that is not my point.

As I've been repeatedly saying, all I'm doing is pointing out an inaccuracy.

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It says all registered AmigaOS owners have access. They don't.

The games are in a separate folder alongside the OS4.0 and OS4.1 ones, so as long as you have registered any OS4.x version you likely have access to the games. Did you try to download them?

@AmiDog:

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Did you try to download them?

No. Did you read the rest of the thread?

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This is great to see.

I wonder if the games are still the cracked copies.
I remember a few years ago, that when I downloaded Sinbad from cinemaware, the adf was a cracked version from megabyte!

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