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Hyperion and Individual Computers sign license agreement

Brussels, March 9, 2013

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (Belgium) and Individual Computers GmbH (Germany) have signed a license agreement for use of Kickstart 1.3 and Kickstart 3.1 ROMs in processor accelerators for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000 and Amiga 2500.

In addition to the binary license, Hyperion will grant Individual Computers access to the source code  of the IDE driver for further development  which may facilitate installation of AmigaOS 4.1 and beyond.

The first product to make use of this license will be the entry-level accelerator for Amiga  500 called "ACA500": With both Kickstart images in the flashrom of this product,the user will benefit from best compatibility with floppy-based and harddisk-based software.

 

Happy New Year

Antwerp, Belgium. - 31 December, 2007

Hyperion Entertainment extends its best wishes for 2008 to all of its customers and supporters world-wide.

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U-Boot update available

Leuwen, Belgium - October 6th 2004.

In preparation for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the much improved U-Boot 1.x.x for AmigaOne SE and XE motherboards.

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New AmigaOne firmware available

Leuven, Belgium - October 6th 2004.

In preparation for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the much improved U-Boot 1.1.1 for AmigaOne SE and XE motherboards.

New features include:

  • Support for multiple graphics cards. At this time the last graphics card (usually the AGP card) is used for primary display. Later versions will include an option to choose.
  • Support for booting off a Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller. This feature has to be selected manually at the moment, by entering setenv ide sii from the U-Boot shell.
  • New CPU support: IBM PowerPC 750GX is now fully supported.
  • A problem has been fixed that made the U-Boot environment settings unavailable when rebooting from Linux.
  • Support for LBA48 IDE Drives, i.e. you can now boot off drives that are bigger than 160 GB.
  • Support for the new Second-Level Bootloader (that can boot Linux besides AmigaOS), to be distributed with the upcoming AmigaOS 4 update.
  • Numerous bug fixes and improvements.

The new U-Boot will be required for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, to be released shortly to registered AmigaOS 4.0 pre-Release owners.

The download is available in our Downloads section.

Notice: U-Boot is licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can find a copy of the GPL here

 

New AmigaOne firmware version to support two banks of unregistered ram

Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003

Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians.

Newly implemented functionality includes:

  • Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0)
  • Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's
  • Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration
  • Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration
  • Support of additional types of memory modules
  • Integration of diagnostic code
  • Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults
  • New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM
  • Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers

The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly.

 

 
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