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Heretic II 2024 for AmigaOS 3.x (68K)

Brussels – August 05, 2024

Hyperion is excited to unveil a brand-new port of Heretic II (2024) developed by Steffen Häuser, tailored specifically for high-performance 68K Amiga systems.

About Heretic II

Heretic II is the highly acclaimed conceptual sequel to the Hexen and Heretic series by Raven Software ®. Heretic II relies on a modified version of the Quake IITM engine by Id Software and plays from a behind-the-back third-person perspective as in the Tomb Raider series but still controls a lot like a first-person shooter.

Features

  • Quake II TM 3D Engine from Id Software ®
  • Software renderer and MiniGL renderer (MiniGL renderer can only be used when 3D HW drivers are available for PiStorm). The software renderer runs 25 fps on 640x480 on Pi CM4, 21 fps on Pi4, 19 fps lowres on Pi3. For Pi3 there are also 480x270 and 640x360 resolutions.
  • Atmospheric game music via Ogg Vorbis Replay
  • Localization (both text and audio output) in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish
  • Improved quality of the video intro/extro
  • Multiplayer support (Internet or LAN for up to 32 players)
  • Impressive enemy AI
  • Excellent player control (mouse, keyboard, joystick), optional PSXPort support
  • Expandable with new mission packs such as Quake
Technical requirements
  • AmigaOS ® 3.x
  • PiStorm (Pi3, Pi4 or CM4) or via emulation such as UAE
  • 64 MB RAM minimum, more recommended
  • Picasso96 with chunky 16 bit modes (no AGA)
  • AHI 4.18
  • mpega.library (game installer can install it)
  • 400 MB free hard disc space
This new version of Heretic II is available as of the 9th of August via our dealers.

 

 

New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – New Director Appointed

Brussels – January 21, 2025

At a general assembly held on December 18, 2024, organized and convened by the temporary administrator, the shareholders of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA appointed Timothy De Groote as the company’s new director.

The general assembly also instructed the new directors to prioritize consolidating the company’s financial situation and restarting development of AmigaOS.

The general assembly followed the bankruptcy of Hyperion Entertainment’s largest shareholder, Ben Hermans BV, which, under Belgian law, resulted in the annulment of its shares.

 

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA obtains key victory in US Federal Court

Brussels  – April 2, 2023

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce it obtained a sweeping victory in the US District Court of the Western District of Washington at Seattle in the litigation brought against Hyperion by Cloanto Corporation and the Amiga Parties (Amiga Inc., Itec, LLC and Amino Development Corporation).

The Court dismissed all of the remaining claims in this proceeding filed by Cloanto Corporation and the Amiga Parties against Hyperion Entertainment and found entirely in favor of Hyperion Entertainment by granting Hyperion's Motion for Summary Judgment as to all counts.

The instant case was initiated against Hyperion Entertainment on December 14, 2017 (!) when plaintiff Cloanto Corporation (later joined by the Amiga Parties) filed suit against Hyperion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York alleging Hyperion exceeded the rights granted to it by the 2009 Settlement Agreement thereby resulting in copyright and trademark infringement.

Hyperion Entertainment wishes to thank all of the AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x development teams as well as our beta-testers for continuing their work during the many years of litigation.

During these many years Hyperion Entertainment was always keen to bring this litigation to a negotiated outcome and still, to this day, remains of the belief that an amicable resolution between the parties bringing all remaining litigation to a close, would be in the interest of the Amiga Community as a whole.

A copy of the Court’s order of March 30, 2023 can be found here.

 

AmigaOS 3.2 NDK update available

 

Brussels – March 8, 2022 – For immediate release

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another update to the Native Developer Kit (NDK) for AmigaOS 3.2. This R4 update of the AmigOS 3.2 NDK is a testament to our continued dedication to support the AmigaOS 3.2 ecosystem.

The R4 update of the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 includes:

 

  • Better integration with VBCC, Manx, Aztec and GCC compilers
  • Updated “include files” for AmigaOS 3.2.1 changes
  • General improvements
  • More example code
  • Newly researched documentation for operating system functions never covered in the past 35+ years
  • New developer documentation detailing the operating system interfaces and header files as well as documentation on how to make the best use of memory pools (with full source code).

 

AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R4 is available for free from our download area here.

AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R4 will also be made accessible in other venues to pursue greater adoption and wider availability by the AmigaOS development community.

Hyperion Entertainment wishes to thank the AmigaOS 3.2 development team and the AmigaOS 3.2 userbase for their continued efforts and support in these difficult times.

If you want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store!



 

 

Heretic II 2024 AmigaOS 4 update

Brussels – June 28, 2024

A free update for Heretic II 2024 for AmigaOS 4 is available for immediate download for all users that have bought their license from Alinea Computer or any other distributors.

Steffen Häuser is responsible for the port and this update contains small improvements on CD Audio and bug fixes.
This update offers:

  • Two versions of quake2.so, one of them plays Ogg Vorbis Music files instead of CD Audio, the other one CD Audio as up to now (copy the one you want to use as quake2.so into your Heretic II directory).
  • Interface to manipulate what Audio is used is "cd ?" as up to now, regardless if you use the CD Audio version or the Ogg Vorbis version.
  • In the CD Audio version the bug that it always would shuffle, regardless of cd_shuffle console variable, has been fixed
  • cd_shuffle console variable now exists, and is preset to 0
  • For software renderer the bilinear filtering before was only accessible by using the console. It is now available in the ingame settings.
  • The fixes on multiplayer skin from Update 1 are also included in this update
  • The update also includes Ogg Vorbis versions of the CD Audio tracks, just copy base/music to your HereticII/ directory.
  • Removes "Palleted" chooser of Video GL (it never did anything anyways, neither MiniGL nor GL4ES support palettes).
  • Corrects calculation of CD Track length for CD Audio version.The update can be found in the download section of Hyperion’s website.

The update can be found in the download section of Hyperion’s website.

Note: there has been an update 1 shared within small group, but it was not officially released. Update 2 includes the all the changes of update 1.

 
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