Licensing Kickstart ROMs for Raspberry Pi

[Art]

I totally missed some of the content of some replies here.
Thanks, particulary Ezrec and deadwood. I am a little less dumb now

If there's a world shortage of 42 pin sockets a broken Capcom system board
of the right family would ensure you never need one again.
Not sure which system, but it is driven by 68000, looks like an Amiga,
and ran Street Fighter II. Unfortunately, I gave up the remains of mine
so that someone could revive their board.

42 pin EPROMs I do have, but I think they are mask EPROPMs of the same nature
as a real Kickstart chip, and of no use to anyone for Amiga projects.
I actually still own Street Fighter II ROMS, and can say OK in MAME when it asks!

Are Amiga chips of use to anyone? Or can at least identify them?
I can't identify a 40 pin one, I thought it was a Kick, but it's dated 1991.
which makes little sense???

COMMODORE - AMIGA
390979-01
(c)1991 V2-04 37-175
9141XD001

I know that I have an A500 or A500+ Denise.

One curious one is a 20 pin DIL IC with Commodore's logo on it dated 1989.

Another one has some unremarkable numbers, and the "PROTO" printed on a line
of it's own. You'd love that to be an Amiga, but I really think that's from Arcade board.

Can a chip marked with "CIG" instead of "CBM" be commodore?
Because then a few of them 1984, 1996.

[Art]

It can be done
If it's an old UAE, it needs a new Kickstart slot, serial port, and floppy drive, in that order.

[haywirepc]

From extensive research I found WinUAE only needed Pentium III 600mhz for OCS/ECS and Superstardust AGA needed 850mhz. These were laptops running Win XP SP1 in 2007ish.

I'm not sure how fast the Pi is.

With what settings? I've always found it needed 2ghz+ to be smooth...

AGA games like superstartdust aga run best with 2.4 ghz+

Maybe thats just me, I didn't ever tweak settings very much...

[Havie]

I hate to bring this thread back on track but surely the answer for Eben is this:
 
http://www.amigaforever.com/news-events/af-essentials-android/
 
If they can release kickstart ROMs then either they have the right, they know someone who gives them the right or they are doing it anyway?:argue:

[slaapliedje]

There is a post here;    http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64438  So try Hyperion for the kickstart roms as well as Cloanto.

slaapliedje

[Art]

I hate to bring this thread back on track but surely the answer for Eben is this:
 
http://www.amigaforever.com/news-events/af-essentials-android/
 
If they can release kickstart ROMs then either they have the right, they know someone who gives them the right or they are doing it anyway?:argue:

It appears they do, but I don't see how the distribution method would work for the Raspberry Pi
Selling it the way they are for Android is a very tidy approach for them,
but not every platform makes it possible to regulate that way.

iOS is one of them.
They say they are working on a distribution method for iOS,
but the dist method for Android won't work because iOS programs can't share each other's files.
(not that I don't have ideas)...

The problem I see with Raspberry Pi distribution is how do they restrict the
files they provide to the user they are intended for?

I guess the usual Windows distribution makes no allowance for this anyway..
the ROMs are encrypted with a rather simple routine that can be decoded
by just about any version of UAE nowadays...