Hyperion Entertainment
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| Private | |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | February 1999 |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
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Key people
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Ben Yoris Benjamin Hermans Timothy de Groote Evert Carton |
| Products | AmigaOS 4 |
| Website | www |
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (formerly Hyperion Entertainment VOF) is a Belgian software company which in its early years focused in porting Windows games to Amiga OS, Linux and Mac OS. In 2001, they accepted a contract by Amiga Incorporated to develop AmigaOS 4 and mainly discontinued their porting business to pursue this development. AmigaOS 4 runs on the AmigaOne systems, Commodore Amiga systems with a Phase5 PowerUP accelerator board, Pegasos II systems and Sam440/Sam460 systems.
Hyperion Entertainment was founded in February 1999, in their own words, "After Belgian lawyer Benjamin Hermans wondered why no one had ever tried to license PC games to do Amiga ports." Hyperion does not maintain programmer staff but sub-contracts software programmers for projects as necessary. Hans-Joerg Frieden, who had previously worked on ports of the games Descent and Abuse as well as the Warp3D library, was contracted to be Hyperion's main developer. For the next few years, Hyperion would port several game titles to the Amiga and later Linux and the Macintosh, starting with Heretic II.
The port of Heretic II was generally well received by the Amiga press, but had weak sales. Following this, Hyperion set out to target a broader range of platforms: Amiga, Linux, and Mac OS. They also approached Monolith Productions to port their Lithtech engine, culminating in their port of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division in 2001. The game had not sold as well as had been hoped, most notably on Linux, despite becoming a best seller on Tux Games. Hyperion put some of the blame for weak sales on lack of publication by its then-publisher Titan Computer (a claim bitterly contested by Titan) and also stated that Linux users were likely to dual boot with Windows to play easily available games rather than purchase more expensive specialised versions years after release. In any case, Hyperion then mainly discontinued licensing and porting games as it was not profitable as Hermans had claimed. A Linux port of Gorky 17 contracted by Hyperion to Steffen Haeusser was published by Linux Game Publishing in 2006. They also marketed a commercial Amiga port of Quake II, which was already available as source code under the GNU Public License. Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War in 2010 was ported to AmigaOS 4 by Peter Gordon, around ten years after it was ported to AmigaOS 3 by Hyperion Entertainment contractors.
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