Umilator (aka Amithlon 2.0) DemoCD Preview

[LaBodilsen]

Hi
I've recently found my old DemoCD of Umilator, and got it running under VirtualBox.

Thought some people might want to see it in action, so i prepared a small video:

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[Seiya]

i hope this demoCD after so many years could be released

[malko]

Originally Posted by seiya

i hope this democd after so many years could be released

+1.

[LanceT]

Originally Posted by LaBodilsen

DemoCD of Umilator

This is so cool, remember reading of the Umilator many years ago, Thank you for sharing the video.

Also would like to try/test out the Demo CD iso.

[LaBodilsen]

Although i can't promise *anything* as of now!

I am currently reaching out to the IP holders of the products on the CD, to see if they would accept to have this DemoCD released to the puplic purely for historic reasons.

Two more weeks (just kidding)

[Locutus]

I never knew Umilator ever got to the point of demo releases!

Cool to see.

[Karlos]

I really hope that it's permitted, but I've learned to be pessimistic about such things

[malko]

Originally Posted by Karlos

I really hope that it's permitted, but I've learned to be pessimistic about such things

That is so true that sometimes it's better not to ask and simply share what we have preserved to be sure it will be preserved further...

[pcotter]

It would be great to see this shared. I would be most interested mainly in testing the picasso96 drivers :-)
Thanks for the video.

[pixie]

Umilator, so close yet so far. In Portugal we have a saying "morrer na praia" and umilator, as so many things Amiga related, had so much potential and then got stopped. Thanks God we had PPC

[ImmortalA1000]

Commodore would have needed to recompile KS/WB to x86 if they had survived just 2 more years in reality. All that guff talk about HP RISC or other very expensive CPUs for their future systems (which they touted would use the Win NT as the host OS for the "A5000" etc) had it the wrong way round.

Amiga could only go the way of Apple, x86. Anything else was terrible £/MIPS. Amithlon proved I was right.

[Karlos]

For anyone that wasn't already aware, Bernie has replied in a thread over on aw.net that I created to relay this one.

https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb...=44854&forum=8

[malko]

Originally Posted by Karlos

For anyone that wasn't already aware, Bernie has replied in a thread over on aw.net that I created to relay this one.

https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb...=44854&forum=8

Thanks for the link.
BTW, there is a discussion about the sources and maybe I missed it but where did he gave an answer regarding the Umilator Demo CD and the share of it ?

[LaBodilsen]

Originally Posted by malko

Thanks for the link.
BTW, there is a discussion about the sources and maybe I missed it but where did he gave an answer regarding the Umilator Demo CD and the share of it ?

He did not give an answer to that publicly, And he is not the only one that needs to give permission for this to be released to the puplic.

[ImmortalA1000]

I doubt the IP holder has the financial means to even get a lawyer to write a standard letter let alone a Peyo style quest to bankrupt somebody releasing a demo CD from decades ago LOL

[milanca]

It would definitely be nice to have a public release of Umilator. I don't know much, actually anything, about legal rights, but shouldn't we obtain permission from all three parties here? Amiga Inc., Bernd Meyer and P96. Not sure who is the current holder of Amiga OS license, is it Cloanto? I would really like to see a working "Umilator" but I am sort of pessimistic about it. Maybe there is a chance to get the green light for this demo release, for historical and educational reasons, as it is definitely a great piece of software. To actually use it, there is a key needed because demo release is heavily protected, write locked, time-limited, encrypted, who knows, maybe something more. Releasing it as it is, a demo, looks pretty harmless to all parties (if they all agree) but there is not much use for it. Educational reasons still count, to archive it as an awesome piece of work.

[SnkBitten]

Did you ever decide if you were going to upload the demo of Umilator?

[LaBodilsen]

Originally Posted by SnkBitten

Did you ever decide if you were going to upload the demo of Umilator?

Unfortunately.
I have been ignored by the IP holders of this product, or at least put on ice. So i can not in good faith release this CD.

[Dunny]

Uploading an ISO dump to archive.org would probably be your best bet, as they're generally accepted as being a repository or library of files these days.

[malko]

Originally Posted by LaBodilsen

Unfortunately.
I have been ignored by the IP holders of this product, or at least put on ice. So i can not in good faith release this CD.

Or release it.
If they care you will quickly know. Which may never happen if nobody cares without wanting to say it.