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 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.