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No Amiga OS listed but loads of granular of others less popular OS are? Guess there's a lot of more work to be done there!

guessbest 5y ago
Well, the legality of making copyrighted software available for free and even providing serials really makes it a warez site. They see to be trying to skirt the boundaries of the law by mostly providing software images from disks of software from defunct companies pre2000.
- ocdtrekkie 5y ago
  I could totally see Microsoft or Apple issuing a DMCA here, even though nothing hosted here would even approach a risk to revenue.
  - userbinator 5y ago
    I believe this site has been around for a while already.
- lostgame 5y ago
  I think Macintosh Repository does the same thing, just trying to avoid any legal issues by posting mostly abandonware. That being said; there’s a lot of commercial software there.
mdpye 5y ago
I was also surprised by the omission, but then realised they're hosting archives of the installers. Much of classic AmigaDOS is in the Kickstart ROM (with the workbench environment loaded from disk). I'm guessing that as an OS it's too tightly integrated with the hardware to make sense in this context?
- icedchai 5y ago
  I doubt that is the reason. Kickstart ROMs are available for download, both legally from Cloanto as part of "Amiga Forever", and otherwise.
  - mdpye 5y ago
    But what would you install them on? (aside an emulator of course). As ROMs they seem more a part of the hardware than the other stuff there. But hey, it could just be lack of interest on the part of their audience. It looks like they've got an image of the atari dos disk, and gem (for msdos albeit) but not the TOS ROMs... /shrug
    - wk_end 5y ago
      Well, aside from emulators, you could "install" them onto your own ROM chips for use in your own Amiga, if so inclined.
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wk_end 5y ago
The current Amiga copyright owners are remarkably litigious. WinWorldPC tries not to step on any toes (this is why they refuse to post XP - see the big red notice here [1] - even though it's beloved, relatively useful, and long out-of-print and out-of-support). AmigaOS wouldn't stand a chance. [1] https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-xp/final https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-xp/final

guessbest 5y ago

Well, the legality of making copyrighted software available for free and even providing serials really makes it a warez site. They see to be trying to skirt the boundaries of the law by mostly providing software images from disks of software from defunct companies pre2000.

ocdtrekkie 5y ago
I could totally see Microsoft or Apple issuing a DMCA here, even though nothing hosted here would even approach a risk to revenue.
- userbinator 5y ago
  I believe this site has been around for a while already.
lostgame 5y ago
I think Macintosh Repository does the same thing, just trying to avoid any legal issues by posting mostly abandonware. That being said; there’s a lot of commercial software there.

mdpye 5y ago

I was also surprised by the omission, but then realised they're hosting archives of the installers. Much of classic AmigaDOS is in the Kickstart ROM (with the workbench environment loaded from disk). I'm guessing that as an OS it's too tightly integrated with the hardware to make sense in this context?

icedchai 5y ago
I doubt that is the reason. Kickstart ROMs are available for download, both legally from Cloanto as part of "Amiga Forever", and otherwise.
- mdpye 5y ago
  But what would you install them on? (aside an emulator of course). As ROMs they seem more a part of the hardware than the other stuff there. But hey, it could just be lack of interest on the part of their audience. It looks like they've got an image of the atari dos disk, and gem (for msdos albeit) but not the TOS ROMs... /shrug
  - wk_end 5y ago
    Well, aside from emulators, you could "install" them onto your own ROM chips for use in your own Amiga, if so inclined.

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wk_end 5y ago

The current Amiga copyright owners are remarkably litigious. WinWorldPC tries not to step on any toes (this is why they refuse to post XP - see the big red notice here [1] - even though it's beloved, relatively useful, and long out-of-print and out-of-support). AmigaOS wouldn't stand a chance. [1] https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-xp/final https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-xp/final