Type Public Website www.amiga.com Founder Jay Miner | Key people Bill McEwen Headquarters Issaquah Founded 1996 | |
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Products Xpedio tablets, Amiga Anywhere, AmigaOS 4 | ||
Amiga, Inc. is a company that holds some trademarks and other assets associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation).
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History
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 Corporation), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, Inc. 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. $500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset. In a breach of contract Amiga negotiated with Commodore International two weeks prior to the contract deadline of June 30, 1984. In August 1984, Atari Corporation, under Jack Tramiel, sued Amiga for breach of contract. The case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement. (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 for almost 5 million dollars. 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. In 2010 Commodore USA claimed to have acquired rights to use the Amiga name on branded x86 Linux computers, which however Hyperion Entertainment promptly disputed, on the basis of a 2009 settlement agreement between Hyperion and Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc. holds some trademarks and other intellectual property related to the Amiga personal computer that was developed by Amiga Corporation and Commodore International.
Timeline of events:
2007-04-29:
2007-04-30:
2007-05-07:
2007-07-31:
2009-01-22:
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).
2010-08-31:
2010-12-13:
2011:
2012: