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From what I can tell, in 2012-ish Amiga Inc. transferred all copyright to Cloanto, which is why they're able to sell kickstart rom images. [1] This puts them i
by bane 11y ago
From what I can tell, in 2012-ish Amiga Inc. transferred all copyright to Cloanto, which is why they're able to sell kickstart rom images. [1]
This puts them in the position where they're pretty much the gatekeepers to making UAE legally usable, and they benefit from probably millions of man-hours of emulator development while demanding payment for 30 year old IP they never developed and a front-end UAE launcher that's not needed.
1 - http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html
- vidarh 11y agoPersonally I'd rather Cloanto sits on those rights than Amiga Inc. in any case, and while it's annoying that the kickstart images aren't legally unecumbered, few people care about distributing them... Worth noting also, that UAE can use AROS kickstart images, so increasingly an unencumbered, fully open source, UAE setup is possible (compatibility still needs a lot of work, though).
- orionblastar 11y agoArchive.org has the Amiga TOSEC collection of Kickstart ROMs and Floppy images. I won't link to it but it can be found via Google.