Amiga August 2026 Update
August 4, 2026
Amiga August 2026 Update
New agreements<br>establish a clear framework for Commodore and Amiga technology, supporting<br>AmigaOS development, preservation, and new projects by Amiga and its licensees
Amiga Corporation today announced two agreements concluded within a few<br>weeks of one another. Amiga and Commodore International Corporation have<br>recognized their respective rights. A settlement with Hyperion Entertainment BV<br>resolves a contractual dispute and replaces its 2009 agreement with Amiga.
The agreements complement other rights and arrangements already in place,<br>some of which Amiga can now bring into active use.The Commodore and<br>Amiga Lineage
Amiga Corporation holds the registered and unregistered<br>copyrights in the works of the former Commodore and Amiga<br>companies. These include source code and binaries for CBM 8-bit and Amiga<br>software and firmware, together with hardware designs, manufacturing data,<br>documentation, marketing assets, and other materials. Amiga also owns the Amiga<br>trademarks. The chain of title includes rights previously preserved and<br>consolidated by Cloanto, together with additional rights acquired from other<br>sources.
Following the 1996 liquidation of Escom, one of Amiga's<br>predecessors in interest, the "Commodore" and "C=" trademarks followed a<br>separate path from the other assets. Tulip Computers acquired the trademarks and<br>used them for Commodore-branded PCs. Subsequent transfers brought the trademarks<br>to the present Commodore company. In the agreement, Amiga recognizes this<br>ownership. The copyrights in the historical software,<br>documentation, and other Commodore and Amiga works remained in the chain of<br>title now continued by Amiga. Under the same agreement, Amiga licenses CBM 8-bit<br>software and documentation to Commodore for use in its products.
Amiga<br>retains the right to use and reproduce the Commodore marks in historical and<br>descriptive contexts, including as they appear in original software,<br>documentation, notices, keyboard symbols, on-screen texts, and other content.
The agreement further confirms Amiga's continuing control of technical and<br>numbering resources historically associated with Commodore-Amiga, Commodore<br>Business Machines, Commodore Electronics, Commodore International, and other<br>now-defunct Commodore-formative entities: MAC address OUIs, IP address<br>allocations, port numbers, object identifiers, and other assignments used by<br>Amiga and its predecessors in connection with their systems and activities.
In August 1984, Commodore and Amiga brought their efforts together under<br>Commodore-Amiga, Inc., a name Amiga Corporation still uses as a registered DBA.<br>Forty-two years later, the circle is closing: apart from the "Commodore" and<br>"C=" marks, the principal rights and assets of the Commodore and Amiga eras rest<br>with Amiga.
AmigaOS 4 and 68K Continuity
Hyperion Entertainment<br>will continue to develop and distribute AmigaOS 4 under license from Amiga. The<br>rights in the independently developed AmigaOS 4 code have never been disputed,<br>and the new agreement preserves that position while clearly defining the Amiga<br>software and trademarks licensed for continued AmigaOS 4 development and<br>commercialization.
The position concerning 68K AmigaOS products is<br>different. Under the agreement, Hyperion Entertainment's rights in that field<br>are transitional and limited to AmigaOS 3.2 and AmigaOS 3.3 as upgrades for<br>existing licensed systems. Distribution of those products will end no later than<br>December 31, 2027. Amiga will continue to direct the development and evolution<br>of AmigaOS for the 68K platform, carrying forward the lineage established by<br>Commodore-Amiga in the 1980s.
Hyperion Entertainment will deliver to<br>Amiga the source code, revision history, and documentation for AmigaOS 3.1.4,<br>including all fixes and updates, but excluding AmigaOS 4 code backported into<br>AmigaOS 3.2 or 3.3, for use in Amiga's 68K AmigaOS development. The agreement<br>also provides for the company's contractors and developers to be released from<br>any obligations that would prevent them from working with Amiga. Developers<br>whose commitment has always been to AmigaOS are therefore free to contribute to<br>its future.
Preservation and the Future
Amiga regards the<br>preservation of historical Commodore and Amiga assets and continued development<br>as complementary responsibilities. Its work includes identifying, securing,<br>cataloging, and preserving source code, binaries, documentation, artwork,<br>photos, videos, corporate records, and other materials, while maintaining lawful<br>paths for their continued use, study, and development.
Amiga is working<br>with preservationists, former employees, other original contributors, and<br>cultural, educational, and research institutions, including libraries, museums,<br>and archives.
For example, Amiga is now in a position to restore the<br>iconic SoftVoice speech synthesis to AmigaOS. Several versions of the historic<br>Boing Ball demo are also being prepared...