Amiga, Inc.

Amiga, Inc.

Type	Public
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Issaquah, Washington
Key people	Bill McEwen
Products	Xpedio tablets, Amiga Anywhere, AmigaOS 4
Website	www.amiga.com

Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation), including the Amiga trademark.

Contents 1 Brief history of Amiga brand 2 Current 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Brief history of Amiga brand

In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari, Inc. staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga, Inc.), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, Inc.^[1] went into contract with Amiga for licensed use of the chipset in a new high end game console and then later for use in a computer system.^[2] $500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset.^[3] In a breach of contract Amiga negotiated with Commodore 2 weeks prior to the contract deadline of June 30, 1984.^[4] In August 1984 Atari sued Amiga for breach of contract under Jack Tramiel, and the case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement.^[5](See "Amiga Corporation".)

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1996. The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 1999, Gateway sold Amiga to Amino Development^[6] for almost 5 million dollars.^[7] Gateway still retained ownership to all Amiga patents.

The owner of the trademark, Amiga Inc., licensed the rights to make hardware using the AmigaOne brand to a computer vendor based in the UK, Eyetech Group. However, due to poor sales Eyetech suffered substantial losses and ceased trading.^[8] In 2010 Commodore USA acquired rights to the Amiga name.^[9]

Current

Amiga, Inc. holds the intellectual property related to the Amiga personal computer that was developed by Amiga Corporation and Commodore International.

Timeline of events:

2007-04-29:

• Amiga, Inc. revealed specs for a new Amiga ^[10]

2007-04-30:

• Amiga, Inc. sued Hyperion Entertainment ^[11] for trademark infringement in the Washington Western District Court in Seattle, USA. Amiga, Inc. sued Hyperion for breach of contract, trademark violation and copyright infringement concerning the development and marketing of AmigaOS 4.0.^[12] Hyperion's official statement [4]

2007-05-07:

• Amiga, Inc. revealed specs for a new high end Amiga ^[13]

2007-07-31:

• Amiga, Inc. was dumped as the naming-rights sponsor for a planned hockey arena in Kent, Washington due to failure to deliver a promised down payment.^[14]

2009-01-22:

• Pentti Kouri, Chairman of the Board and a primary source of capital for Amiga, Inc., passes away.

2009-09-30:

Amiga Inc and Hyperion Entertainment reached settlement where Hyperion is granted an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to AmigaOS 3.1 in order to use, develop, modify, commercialize, distribute and market AmigaOS 4.x and subsequent versions of AmigaOS (including AmigaOS 5).^[15]

2010-08-31:

• Commodore USA announces they acquired the rights to the Amiga name and relaunch Amiga branded desktops running AROS.^[16]

2010-12-13:

• After legal threats from Hyperion due to conditions in the Amiga Inc. settlement that they are now subject to as an Amiga licensee, Commodore USA later drop their AROS plans and announce on their relaunched website, that they will create a new OS called AMIGA Workbench 5.0 (name has been changed to Commodore OS), which was later revealed will be based on Linux.^[17]

2011:

• Amiga Inc. licenses the brand name to Hong Kong based manufacturer IContain Systems, Ltd.^[18]
• Amiga Xpedio Tablets:
  • Amiga Xpedio 10 MT,
  • Amiga Xpedio 10 MTL,
  • Amiga Xpedio 8,
  • Amiga Xpedio 7 MT

• Amiga All-In-One Computers:
  • Amiga Sentio BR,
  • Amiga Sentio RO,
  • Amiga Sentio KLT

See also

• Amiga, Inc. (South Dakota)
• Amiga Corporation
• Amiga computer
• AmigaOne
• AmigaOS 4

References

1. ^ http://www.atarimuseum.com/ahs_archives/archives/pdf/misc/atari-amiga-contract.pdf
2. ^ ATARI Corp. vs. Amiga Corporation, U.S. (Santa Clara, California Federal Court March 6th, 1984 contract between Atari Inc. and Amiga Corp. included in evidence filings).
3. ^ "AMIGA'S HIGH-TECH GAMBLE", New York Times (New York, New York), 29 August 1984, http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/29/business/amiga-s-high-tech-gamble.html?sec=technology&&scp=5&sq=amiga&st=nyt, retrieved 2010-11-27 
4. ^ "Atari sues over chips", Modesto Bee (Modesto, California): 19, 22 August 1984, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-8wqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qtMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5098,634690&dq=amiga+500000+atari&hl=en, retrieved 2010-11-27 
5. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; Atari, Commodore Settle", New York Times (New York, New York), 24 March 1987, http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/25/business/company-news-atari-commodore-settle.html, retrieved 2010-11-27 
6. ^ "Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway". 1999-12-31. http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=019991231173706&category=news. Retrieved 2010-09-03. 
7. ^ Bouma, Mike (2002-10-08). "A Closer Look at MorphOS on the PEGASOS". OSNews. http://www.osnews.com/story/1897. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
8. ^ "AmigaOne News : 20 Answers with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech". 2005-06-06. http://www.amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2339. Retrieved 2010-09-03. 
9. ^ "Commodore USA announces acquisition of Amiga exclusive worldwide licensing rights". 2010-08-31. http://www.amiga.com/news/2010-08-31-commodore-amiga-aio.php. Retrieved 2010-11-06. 
10. ^ [1]
11. ^ [2]
12. ^ "Amiga, Inc. sues Hyperion VOF". AmigaNet.net. 2007-05-01. http://amigaweb.net/index.php?function=view_news&id=486. Retrieved 2007-05-02. 
13. ^ [3]
14. ^ Brunner, Jim (2007-07-31). "Amiga fails to deliver cash, loses naming rights to Kent arena". The Seattle Times Company. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003813881_kentarena31m.html. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
15. ^ "Hyperion, Amiga, Inc. Reach Settlement, All Legal Issues Resolved.". OSNews. 2009-10-17. http://www.osnews.com/story/22360/Hyperion_Amiga_Inc_Reach_Settlement_All_Legal_Issues_Resolved. Retrieved 2009-10-18. 
16. ^ "Commodore USA to relaunch Amiga brand with series of AROS desktops". Engadget. 2010-08-31. http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/commodore-usa-to-relaunch-amiga-brand-with-series-of-aros-deskto/. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 
17. ^ "Introducing AMIGA Workbench 5.0". Commodore USA. 2010-08-31. http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS.aspx. Retrieved 2010-12-13. 
18. ^ "Press release on Amiga.com". Amiga Inc.. 2011-04-05. http://www.amiga.com/news/2011-04-06-icontain-amiga.php. Retrieved 2011-10-07. 

External links

• Amiga, Inc.
• Amiga licensee iContain

Amiga companies Property owner Amiga, Inc. Original developer Amiga Corporation Mainly software Grasshopper LLC • Haage & Partner • Hyperion Entertainment • Runesoft GmbH Other companies - Present ACube Systems Srl • A-EON Technology • Commodore International • Genesi Other companies - Former Amiga, Inc. (South Dakota) • Escom • Eyetech • Gateway, Inc. • Phase5 • Xetec

Amiga hardware (history) Amiga models 680x0 based CD32 · CDTV · A500 · A500Plus · A600 · A1000 · A1200 · A1500 · A2000 · A2500 · A3000 · A3000T · A3000UX · A4000 · A4000T PowerPC based A1-SE · A1-XE · Micro-A1 · AmigaOne 500 · AmigaOne X1000 Unofficial 68k models Minimig · Natami · Turbo Chameleon · Multiple Classic Computer Unofficial models Pegasos II · Efika · Sam440ep · Sam440ep-flex · Sam460ex · Sam460ex Lite Amiga prototypes Walker · A5000 Amiga chipsets OCS · ARC · ECS · AGA · AAA · AA+ · Hombre · (Agnus · Alice · Denise · Lisa · Paula · Blitter · Copper · Akiko · others) Other hardware Action Replay · Chip/Fast RAM · Flicker fixer · Kickstart ROM · Amiga Sidecar

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