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[ikir]

Amiga-news.de reports that Haage & Partner has started a competition for users who design AmigaOS4 system and application icon sets. The best designs will receive a free cos of his popular OS4 icon & skin.

Competition

Screenshots:
Toaks1
Toaks2
Toaks3

(News partially taken from AW.net).

[Cymric]

I'd rather have a competition for the applications themselves rather than their icons, but I guess you have to start somewhere...

[Waccoon]

Any chance of making icons that don't look like they were ripped out of MacOS or KDE?

I always liked the fact that Amiga icons weren't always square, either.

[Warface]

As I asked there as well - where and what are the rules? And to be honest I didn't really knew what those screnshots have to do with the news item.

[xeron]

Apparently, they don't really have anything to do with the competition, they're just ToAks' OS4 beta workbench...

[Trev]

What's a "cos?" Should that have read "copy of ArtEffect?"

[Warface]

The question is: if I win the competition, will there be an Arteffect for MorphOS, or will someone provide me with an AmigaONE board for free? :-)

[T_Bone]

I thought H&P washed their hands of everything Amiga?

[redrumloa]

I thought H&P washed their hands of everything Amiga?

Me too, i thought there was some, uh.. unpleasantness between H&P and Amiga Inc :-? Maybe fences mended?

[Kaminari]

What's the point of using a higher resolution if all you do with it is using ever bigger icons? Doh.

[Kronos]

Wouldn't bet on it....

You may remember H&P searching for someone to adapt AE to OS4 on a freelance-basis.
Or in other words : " We'll pay you 0.0 upfront, but you might get a few ct when it works out"

Seems they have found someone .... I'm still not sure wether the new AE is
-just a patch to make sure the OS3.x-version runs on OS4.
- a plain port from OS3.x to OS4
- AE_V5 in the makeing

With competion is again something where they don't invest a dime, but may end up with an Icon/Skin-CD they can sell ....

Same old H&P as allways :-o

[xeron]

@Kronos

I can confirm that it IS at least OS4.0 PPC native. I don't know if its actually enhanced other than porting it, though.

[umisef]

In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the deal they offered the freelancer doing the port was a percentage-of-net deal (you couldn't imagine the idiocy of the arguments over that issue when it came to Amithlon!) --- and as these copies are obviously going out for E0.00 net, H&P are probably getting these icon sets for literally nix.

Of course, that's assuming they don't declare those copies of AE for OS4 to be "promotional" in the first place --- considering that repeated requests for a report what the 47 "promotional" copies of AmigaOS XL were used for (a report, I might add, which they were contractually required to provide) were utterly ignored, it seems not unreasonable to wonder how loosely they might define "promotional"....

Of course, I am somewhat biased by past experience --- but if anyone even considers taking part in this "competition" (competitions have rules, and clear statements regarding the ownership of intellectual property involved, and sometimes even webpages containing more than an image referring to that very same webpage for further information), then make *damn* sure you do not assign H&P any rights you might want to keep. Write it down. Make them sign it. Do not send them anything until you have gone through that process. *Then* watch them like a hawk, because they really don't care what rights they do or don't have.

I guess with H&P dabbling in Amiga affairs again, it's time to mail Garry Hare some sales reports

[Paul_Gadd]

I thought H&P washed their hands of everything Amiga?

Nope, the cancer is here to stay.

What Burned said above says it all.

[Rogue]

@kronos

Or in other words : " We'll pay you 0.0 upfront, but you might get a few ct when it works out"

Unless you know the specifics, you are just making things up. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.