AndrejXY

May he rest in peace.

The Register also posted an obituary today:

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-ami...

A longer discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670238

> Haage & Partner 'Amiga Forever' lineage

You are confusing one with the other.

Haage & Partner did "3.5" and "3.9". Those are no longer distributed, as the contracts with both Amiga and the developers/suppliers expired.

Cloanto (Amiga Forever) did "3.X", which is currently at v. 45.066, or 45.66. It is based on 40.068 by the Amiga companies, not work by Haage & Partner: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-125

This update wasn't really "unexpected", as there have been patches and updates for AmigaOS 3.x from various sources (not just Hyperion Entertainment) every few years.

Hyperion is operating while insolvent and has failed to file nine years' worth of accounts (2009-2014 and 2022-2024). Yet - perhaps because of that - they still found the resources to sue Amiga in 2018 in an attempt to seize its assets (https://x.com/amigadocuments/status/1897157746019196951).

The developers behind AmigaOS 3.2.3 are working for free, while Hyperion simply slaps its name on the box and the proceeds are being funneled into the lawsuit against Amiga.

For anyone who actually cares about the platform, it's as disheartening as it is infuriating.

Nice!

On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?

You are right in that this has nothing to do with trademarks. Copyright assignments can be researched on this US Government site (here a sample output for "Cloanto"):

https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3626D795 https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9946D337 https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9943D475

Where did Cloanto ever refer to this as "encryption"? It is a simple XOR, and it is open source. They always said they were "encoded" because Amiga International or Gateway asked them to. ROM encoding has been supported by UAE since 1997.

(Interesting takeover attempt by the usual "anti Cloanto" trolls.)

Post Scriptum - Found some info here:

https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-128

I am afraid you are wrong on two points: there was indeed a license agreement with every Amiga sold (whether enforceable or not, I don't know), but more importantly there were no rights to be waived in the first place.

System ROMs were protected copyrighted works well before the release of Amiga in 1985. See the case of Apple vs. clone maker Franklin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....

What you describe is piracy. Your other comment about legality having a "bad reputation among Amiga enthusiasts" makes it seem like the Amiga community is one of criminals. That is sheer madness.

"Who knows?" Playing the FUD game?

Acer never owned anything Amiga. The copyrights and trademarks can easily be looked up, while the patents expired before Acer even bought Gateway.

https://www.copyright.gov/ https://www.uspto.gov/

You mean it would be legal to copy Windows 11 from one PC, and put the copy on a barebone system? :-D

You mean OS/2? :-)

You are blaming the wrong people.

Amiga wanted (wants) to make an open source branch. Cloanto said the same on multiple occasions. I know people who saw settlement drafts with Hyperion, the provision was there. Ask the 3.1.4 developers in the forums.

Hyperion lawyer-owner Ben Hermans, who is an "experienced IT litigator" is the one who keeps blocking it, like he keeps blocking the 2019 acquisition and the transfer of all assets into Amiga Corporation. He even sued his own managing director, Timothy DeGroote, to stop the settlement with the Amiga parties (Amiga/Itec/Amino/Cloanto).

What lawsuits are you talking about?

Cloanto never sued anyone, other than having been dragged in the case of lawyer-owned Hyperion Entertainment. Hyperion is owned by a litigator who is well known for his tactics in his home country of Belgium. When Hyperion failed to deliver on their 2001 Amiga OS outsourced development contract, they did what lawyers do best: they sued Amiga. They sued Amiga once in 2007, and they sued Amiga again in 2018 (case number 2:2018cv00381 filed March 13, 2018). This was completely unprovoked, and was largely seen as an attempt to trigger a "catch all" clause in the 2009 settlement with Amiga. Hyperion was hoping for Amiga to default. Instead, Cloanto helped them, as they always did.

If you want to educate yourselved on the Hyperion vs. Amiga case, "Amiga Documents" is as good as it gets:

https://twitter.com/amigadocuments

https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

Curious about hardware differences across markets. I bought my previous gen 2 watch in Japan, so it came with the Suica feature (which my phone lacks). Will they again limit this feature to Japan sales? And then, will LTE be different (optimized to frequencies) from country to country, given the small size?