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[News] IncaGold and Hyperion Entertainment enter into comprehensive license agreementANN.lu
Posted on 18-Apr-2003 20:06 GMT by Mikey C34 comments
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Leuven, Belgium. April 18, 2003.

IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold’s current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms. Hyperion’s first target for conversion is “Midnight Racing” which offers players the excitement of realistic night driving using a state of the art 3D engine.

“We are understandably very pleased with this agreement as signing with IncaGold will allow us to bring IncaGold’s outstanding and ever-growing portfolio of games to our target audiences”, said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment.

Daniel Aurell, Director at IncaGold, added, “We are pleased to have found such a competent partner in this field to take our PC entertainment products to other home computing platforms. We are looking forward to together with Hyperion bringing many of our titles to the Amiga, Linux and Mac systems in the coming months.”

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment (www.hyperion-entertainment.com) is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.

ABOUT INCAGOLD
IncaGold (www.incagold.com) is a world-wide leader in the development and publishing of casual gaming entertainment on PC CD-ROM. Founded in 1996, the company operates sales and development offices in Brazil, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Posted by Anonymous on 18-Apr-2003 18:37 GMT
Dude :-)
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Posted by Richi on 18-Apr-2003 19:01 GMT
Go Hyperion go!
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 18-Apr-2003 19:29 GMT
GREAT NEWS...

Seems some nice software will come to OS4.. :-)

Hope OS4 will be ready soon...
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Posted by NihilVor on 18-Apr-2003 20:16 GMT
Is "Slamtilt Resurrection" any good?
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Posted by Anonymous on 18-Apr-2003 20:28 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Troels Ersking):
Where does it say it's for OS4?
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Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 18-Apr-2003 20:37 GMT
Cool!
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 18-Apr-2003 20:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
"....entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold’s current and future entertainment software titles converted for the ***Amiga***, Linux and Macintosh platforms."

Doubt we're talking 68K here ;)
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Posted by reflect on 18-Apr-2003 20:44 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
You're right! It DOESN'T say it's for OS4, only for Amiga! So it's probably only for 3.9 and below!! Damn, that would be bad for sales of OS4.. hm.. how will they rectify this one.. darn it!
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Posted by Anonymous on 18-Apr-2003 20:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (reflect):
Or it could mean installing linux on your 68k amiga & run the linux version on your amiga ? :-)
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Posted by hooligan/dcs on 18-Apr-2003 20:50 GMT
Well, not that they have done even one game to move the nerdkind, good luck in Amiga business.
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Posted by Anonymous on 19-Apr-2003 02:17 GMT
Good to hear there will be games for OS4.
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Posted by JoannaK on 19-Apr-2003 05:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous):
Yep, I hope they first finish that OS4 and don't get too much sidetracked on making Linux and Mac gameports in between. Personally, I have no hurry for OS4 anymore (as I have Mos/Pega) but there are quite many Aone owners waiting.
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Posted by Sam Smith on 19-Apr-2003 08:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (JoannaK):
Hyperion are far too professional to fall into any sort of trap regarding prioritising products.

And you are right - lots of us are eagerly awaiting OS4! :)

Excellent news Hyperion - it is much appreciated.

---
Sam
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Posted by smp266 on 19-Apr-2003 12:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Sam Smith):
Starting off with a bang! Racing sims are one of my favourites and that one looks great!
Only I hope it doesn't crash frequently. I don't look forward to buying games anymore on the PC because they crash so frequently.

I'll be patiently waiting for those releases on Linux or Amiga. :-)
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Posted by Radfoo on 19-Apr-2003 12:52 GMT
Yep, we need a good 3D racing game.

I hope OS4 comes first though.
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Posted by Lando on 19-Apr-2003 14:33 GMT
This is good news. I hope they will run on Pegasos+MorphOS too. If so I will definitely buy them.
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Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 19-Apr-2003 15:30 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
Hi!

Yes, it doesn't say it would be for OS 4 in the announcement. There will definitely be a OS 4 Native version, though, even then if there would also be
an OS 3.x version.

As if there will *only* be (asides from the Mac/Linux versions) an OS 4 version, or if there will also be a
OS 3.9 version, this is not yet decided, but I'd say it is *not too unlikely*
that this will be one of the first "Amiga OS 4 only" (asides from the Mac/Linux versions of course...) titles. I cannot tell you definite right now, though,
the acquirement of the licence was just too early to give any more details
on "Midnight Racing" and other IncaGold titles than what was written in the
announcement...

Important note about "AmigaOS 4 only titles" - such titles would run BOTH on
an AmigaOne and on a AmigaClassic machine (running OS 4).

And don't worry about Hyperion being "Sidetracked". Different people work on
the OS than are working on the games...

Steffen Haeuser
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 19-Apr-2003 15:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Lando):
They only mentioned a license for Amiga, Mac and Linux so I doubt you will see a MOS version.

And 600 MOS users aren't really a large customour base for a game anyway...
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Posted by JoannaK on 19-Apr-2003 16:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (Troels Ersking):
Well.. you tell me how many Amiga Ones there are? It's not a big number, and a lot less than Pegasos sold by this time. So if decision is made by existing user base alone it's not much of contest. (Not even mentioning lack of OS4 causing delays to games making)
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Posted by Anonymous on 19-Apr-2003 16:34 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (JoannaK):
Joannak wrong there are many more pre ordered Aones then sold pegasos.
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Posted by Anonymous on 19-Apr-2003 16:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (JoannaK):
Even Amiga.inc coupons have sold more than pegasos.
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Posted by David Scheibler on 19-Apr-2003 16:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (Anonymous):
How do you know? That's at least not true for for Comoputer City. At
ComputerCity there have been more Pegasos sold than AmigaOnes preordered (see
interview in the Amiga Future).
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Posted by Anonymous on 19-Apr-2003 16:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Anonymous):
What do the invisible/ illegal coupons have to do with anything?

Amigans were encouraged to buy a coupon even if all they wanted was OS4/CSPPC. In fact plenty of people /claimed/ to have bought a coupon despite not being able to afford the computer, the OS or anything else, just to "show support" for Bill's scam.
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Posted by Anonymous on 19-Apr-2003 16:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (David Scheibler):
the Polls say it all
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Posted by greenboy on 19-Apr-2003 16:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (Troels Ersking):
Nice try ; } ...But ultimately, probably just not so. And as far as I have seen, Genesi is not asking developers to cordon themselves off from potentially larger sales for what has been determined would be rather trivial work. They know developers need to eat, and probably shouldn't be getting too involved in alienation tactics that might later haunt them.

And nobody even -mentioned- all the games being worked on for the -big- contract for Genesi/Plexuscom Pegasos-driven STB yet - many of those games are also slated for desktop sales.


<--greenboy---<<<<
coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium [http://phinixi.com]
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Posted by JoannaK on 19-Apr-2003 17:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Anonymous):
Oh Boy.. :)
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Posted by Lando on 19-Apr-2003 17:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Anonymous):
>Even Amiga.inc coupons have sold more than pegasos.

Well, someone buying a imaginary coupon is not a guaranteed purchaser of OS4. Once bitten...
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 19-Apr-2003 18:54 GMT
@Joanna

"Well.. you tell me how many Amiga Ones there are? It's not a big number, and a lot less than Pegasos sold by this time. So if decision is made by existing user base alone it's not much of contest. (Not even mentioning lack of OS4 causing delays to games making)"

At the time that OS4 is out there will be a lot more than 600 Amigaone's, no doubt about that. Maybe there is allready, or during the next weeks as pre-orders are delivered.

Anyway it will be interesting to see how the 2 platforms will evolve during the coming years, hopefully succesfully for both.
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Posted by JoannaK on 20-Apr-2003 07:30 GMT
In reply to Comment 28 (Troels Ersking):
Agree.. And by the time OS4 gets to AmigaOnes, Pegasos 2 has been on sales and deliveries on long time. So it'll be totally different picture than today. :)

But in the end it's good to see this movement going on. New games and applications are coming to these systems. More people will have to chance to select some alternative to this nowdays upholding m$ monopoly (Imho, Linux ain't personal OS.. not at least for me).
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Posted by StormLord on 20-Apr-2003 11:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 27 (Lando):
(OT)
Are you the same Lando that moderates Plus/4 world site ?
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Posted by Anonymous on 20-Apr-2003 11:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 29 (JoannaK):
"""Agree.. And by the time OS4 gets to AmigaOnes, Pegasos 2 has been on sales and deliveries on long time. So it'll be totally different picture than today. :)""

Yes a another no clue person knowing when Aos4 will be out BRAVO!
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Posted by Anonymous on 20-Apr-2003 13:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 30 (StormLord):
>Are you the same Lando that moderates Plus/4 world site ?

Hi, no that is a different Lando. And I'm not the Lando.co.uk Lando either, so please don't ask about my stinking hole (when people did this on IRC I thought they were just being offensive). There were no other Lando's when I took this nick back in 92 but now they seem to be everywhere!
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Posted by JoannaK on 20-Apr-2003 17:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 31 (Anonymous):
" Yes a another no clue person knowing when Aos4 will be out BRAVO!"

Spoken by yet another anonymous coward...

Well... World may as well end before August, Who's to tell?

But I would be hightly surpriced in either case.. :)
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Posted by priest on 22-Apr-2003 11:03 GMT
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=6265&action=flatview
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