Amiga, Inc. and Bernd Meyer
announce licensing of Amithlon 2.0
 June
23, 2002 - Snoqualmie, WA and Melbourne, Australia - Amiga, Inc. today
announced the cross licensing of Amithlon 2.0. The agreement was made
with the author and the inspiration behind Amithlon, Bernd “Bernie”
Meyer.
As part of the agreement, Amiga will license Kickstart 3.1 and portions
of Amiga OS 3.9 to be distributed as part of Amithlon 2.0. In turn, Amiga
will actively promote and license Amithlon 2.0 to OEM customers looking
for an Amiga emulator on x86 platforms.
Bill McEwen, Amiga President and CEO, said, “Bernie has been a good
friend and partner to Amiga. I first demonstrated a beta version of Amithlon
almost a year ago at the Sacramento show. Even then the quality of the
product and its potential were obvious to me. Since then it has become
a more polished, a clear reflection of the passion and skills that Bernie
brings to the table.”
“I have also been impressed by the moral and ethical integrity that
Bernie has displayed as he has partnered with Amiga. Too often in the
past we have had to deal with companies who would like nothing better
than to split the Amiga community. Bernie has always had the best interests
of the community at heart and has created a product that we can all be
truly proud of.”
"It is with great pleasure that I finally enter into a deal directly
with Amiga", said Bernie Meyer. "This new version, to be distributed
with Amiga's seal of approval, provides customers with a clear indication
that Amithlon is an actively developed product with great prospects. This
partnership will allow users of Classic AmigaOS to use their applications
on modern, affordable hardware."
A demo version of Amithlon
2.0 will be available shortly which can be downloaded free of charge from
the distribution site here.
The demo version may be upgraded to a fully functional version with a
simple keyfile, which can be purchased online.
About
Amithlon 2.0
The goal of the Amithlon project was to make AmigaOS 3.9 run on commodity
PC hardware. Unlike other approaches to this problem (UAE, Fellow), Amithlon
provides AmigaOS with complete control over the hardware. Hosted on a
specially modified linux kernel, Amithlon's CPU emulation runs AmigaOS;
All access to graphics, sound, networking and interface hardware is provided
through standard AmigaOS drivers. Amithlon 2.0 is distributed as a self-booting
CD-ROM image.
About
Amiga:
In 1985, Amiga introduced the world to Multimedia with the launch of the
incredible Amiga 1000, a revolution in hardware with dedicated audio and
graphics chips and a revolution in software with the first 32 bit, fully
preemptive, multitasking operating system. It then went on to dominate
the 1980s and early 1990s, pioneering video and animation and giving rise
to many of the top gaming companies of today. That tradition will continue
with the launch of the brand new AmigaOne desktop computer and its companion,
AmigaOS4.0, destined to set new standards and expectations in the world
of digital living. Amiga can be reached on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
About Bernd Meyer:
Bernd Meyer is a freelance software designer with almost 20 years of experience
in professional software development. He has studied Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science in Germany and Australia, and is currently completing
a PhD on Image Modeling at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2000, two of Bernd's hobby projects got out of hand. One turned into
Glicbawls, a category winner in the 2000 International Obfuscated C Code
Contest, the other into a Just-In-Time compiler for the Amiga emulator
UAE, providing it with much greater emulation speed. In 2001, Bernd further
refined the JIT Compiler for inclusion in Amithlon.
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