Furthermore, what is it they believe in? What is their mode of operation in regards to these ownership rights? Do they or do they not have interests in the Amiga community that still persists to this day? And will they play ball in regards to the many Amiga resurrection efforts? (including Natami)
 

I am looking forward to Hyperion Entertainment winning the court case, becoming the owner of said source code, and making a new version for NatAmi. But not AOS4.0, as it's looking at getting MP, which can't be used on later versions of NatAmi thus would be useless.

Also, AOS4.0 has PPC assembler segments, and would make it hard to convert. Of course, those parts may not really be relevant to NatAmi HW anyhow. Unfortunately, AOS3.x and 4.x diverge.

Doesn't mean that BOTH OSs aren't a class act!!!!!!

Because of how things have worked out, we need both. Let AI have AOS5. ;-)

My preference is that AOS3.1 source code is poured over, looking to see if there are any bugs, and new enhancements added, and I wouldn't mind some of it being done in assembler, too. :-)))))

As long as it doesn't cross 10 Megs. Excepting new fonts.

It is not commercially viable at all to start coding new versions of OS 3 as a company today.
In fact, if I ran Hyperion I would absolutely not do it even if i won the court case. It would be outright stupid given the resources I had (two contractors already busy with another OS). I would also take into consideration that I could be dragged back into legal battles anytime, with the risk of my company dying.

It would also be extremely arrogant to ignore the efforts already made with AROS. It is in every way a modern OS 3.x. It just needs to be compiled for 68k. If I owned the source code I would license it under the AROS license to be merged with the AROS codebase, to the benefit of _every_ Amiga effort and operating system.
Not just for some trademark sectarianists.

However, a DVD player would be a good thing to create.

Will the Natami consumer version be fast enough to play a dvd film at right speed?

AMIGA OS 3.0
AMIGA OS 3.1
AMIGA OS 3.5
AMIGA OS 3.9
 
 
Please help me here and try to answer this.

When this is found out we can chat all do long about memory protection and the possible DVD playback features of the NATAMI, ok? :-)

I think that the Amiga souce code is held up in an ongoing leagle battle right now between Hyperion and Amiga Inc.  So, I don't think there is a clear answer until the courts decide.

Is this legal battle about OS3 or OS4 or both?

On which OS version was OS4 based?

Cheers

If your looking to make inquiries I would start with Hyperion

Amiga.org
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executive update, Jan 3, 2000
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Here is what was acquired from Gateway:

1. All trademarks logo's etc.
2. All existing inventory of Amiga International
3. All existing licenses.
4. License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but we are able to use them).
5. All web sites, and registered domain names.
6. The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.
7. The Amiga operation as it exists today.

Gateway
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On October 16, 2007 the acquisition by Acer became final and Gateway became a privately held company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acer. The board of directors resigned and a new board was appointed.

Gateway, now Acer owns the Amiga Patents ?
Maybe get a licence the same way ?

Or just use AROS and finally support the community OS ?

Does AROS support the full classic chipset?
-Paula Audio ?
-Amiga Floppy ?
-Amiga Sprites ?
-Cias?
 
Does AROS has a Kickstart equivialent that allows it to load and play floppy based OCS or AGA games?
 
 

In this case I would like to see more work for AFA, which is currently done by one man I belive. 

Nice thing is that the Aros lic is flexable enought that if someone had the old AmigaOS code we could probably get a really cool AFA out of it.

David

@gunnar: i dont expect anyone here to have dependable answer to your question. that stuff is being discussed on every amiga site i know for years. why do you care to ask anyway? you repeatedly said it is no problem, since you can have licences from cloanto?

I think the best and simplest option for having OS3.0, OS3.1, OS3.5 & OS3.9 on Natami is to on-licence Amiga Forever from Cloanto who have done the hard yards obtaining the various licences already.

The following give a good low down on what seems to have been a complicated process:
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Later versions (3.5 and 3.9) belonged to Haage&Partner, for some reason (personal? money?) Hyperion was not able to obtain the source to those.