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A-EON Technology acquires Ringhio Messaging System
Cardiff, 21st May 2015

As part of our strategic alliance with ACube srl we are pleased to announce that we have purchased the exclusive rights to the Ringhio messaging system from its developer Max 'm3x' Tretene.

As part of the agreement Max has granted A-EON Technology a worldwide, exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable licenses to develop, publish and distribute Ringhio for the Classic and Next-Generation Amiga operating systems. Also included in the agreement is the exclusive ownership to all source code and binaries and the right to use the Ringhio name in all product marketing, promotion and branding of the Classic AmigaOS and Next-generation AmigaOS versions.

Ringhio is the advanced system wide messaging and notification system developed by Max for AmigaOS 4.1. Ringhio, which has has been in development since 2009, is Italian word for “growl” and in many ways it is similar to the OS X application of the same name. With the Ringhio server running, registered applications can inform the user via notifications displayed in a small pop-up box on the Workbench that a particular event has occurred.

These are sometimes called Ringhio messages because the server provides means through which the messages are communicated visually (in other words, Ringhio handles the actual display of messages sent by the Application Library).

The Ringhio message window is very similar to an info requester, only it does not require user interaction. The message is displayed for a short while then disappears. The short-lived pop-up notification window is displayed on the Workbench informing the user, for example, that an e-mail was received, a new tune was loaded for playback in TuneNet, or a program is being installed by AMIstore.

A-EON Technology has commissioned Max to create a new AmigaOS 4.1 version to add new capabilities and features. Plans for a Classic AmigaOS version are also in the works. On finalising the agreement with A-EON Technology, Max said, “I am very excited to work with A-EON for the benefit of AmigaOS software enhancements and securing Ringhio's future development". Matthew Leaman added, “It is a pleasure to work with Max, who is a long established, experienced and respected Amiga developer. We are looking forward to the progressive new features that Ringhio will offer for all of A-EON's software catalogue”.

note: the full press release is available here.

-- eliyahu

Looking forward fo the 68k version. Sounds good.

Maybe it can be a programmable inter-process notification system to compliment IP communication?

This is a good thing to have a standard event driven notification system.   Hopefully this could be standardised across all Amiga NG os

@wawrzon

You're not being forced to use it.  Even if it was on your system you can turn it off in the prefs or delete the whole lot.

It sounds like it would be useful to people who are online a lot. Others would have zero use for it.

Nice move

As I worte in the other thread, some people just want to complain. :p

im not holding you back. you may go and buy a system that pops up requesters on your computer if you want. fine. its a free world;)

and whats that good for? im must say i hate these annoying popups, while im doing something im not in mood to be interrupted with. most they carry with is advertising content, or whatever is not particularly essential...

I'm also not a fan, especially where they're abused (avast antivirus, adobe reader, system update notifications every time you logon...)

Thankfully Adobe doesn't support Amigalikes, we don't use antivirus etc.
Stripped of the abuse, and offered in a user configurable way (as you'd expect with Amiga software), I've actually come to like Magicbeacon (the MorphOS equivalent notification system by Geit), despite my initial misgivings about whether I wanted or had use for it.