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> Hyperion began its quest to modernize and improve this classic version of AmigaOS for Motorola 680x0 platforms in 2018 when it released version 3.1.4. The Ami

> Hyperion began its quest to modernize and improve this classic version of AmigaOS for Motorola 680x0 platforms in 2018 when it released version 3.1.4. The AmigaOS 3.2 lineage began in 2021. I didn't really get why. Reading Wikipedia articles about AmigaOS and Hyperion wasn't helpful either. Anyone has insights why this project was started and how is it financed? Not that I object it in any way, lovely to see retro software being maintained. Just being curious.

snvzz 2y ago
>Reading Wikipedia articles about AmigaOS and Hyperion wasn't helpful either. Interested parties take great care to obfuscate. >Anyone has insights why this project was started and how is it financed There is The Amiga Documents[0]. 0. https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/
ndiddy 2y ago
Hyperion Entertainment is a company that has access to the AmigaOS source code because they were contracted over 25 years ago to port AmigaOS to PowerPC (called AmigaOS 4) as part of a failed attempt to keep the platform going. After that didn't go anywhere, they decided to start selling AmigaOS 3 updates meant to run on old Commodore Amiga hardware to retrocomputing enthusiasts. The project has very little overhead because despite being a commercial product, all development is done by unpaid volunteers. Note that there's been ongoing lawsuits over whether Hyperion is legally allowed to sell AmigaOS 3 updates due to their contract being to develop AmigaOS 4. Here's a pretty good summary of that situation and how it's been holding up the release of an Amiga replica product: https://x.com/MuseumCommodore/status/1902705399234756786 https://x.com/MuseumCommodore/status/1902705399234756786