Socket 42 for Kickstart 3.9.1 (A500/A2000)

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I think somebody is pirating something - the color printed labels make it even more likely!

Why, because pirates like colours?

Pay attention to what the poster writes and what is written on the site, dont let all the coloured stickers distract you.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8588642.stm[/URL]

Relevant because...?

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I don't think you can copyright chips, only software.  (o:

The eproms aren' kickstarts until you load software on them.

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And nothing is illegal when we change our own AMIGA ROMS, if it remains in private use, without being released. We have purchased original ROMs (with AMIGA or only chip).

Well, the question is - do you own a legal copy of OS3.9 for those machines?

But a question remains: if I, French, I change the ROM and I invent the ROM 3.9.3: what are the risks? AMIGA.COM is still down and nobody knows who retains the rights to the ROMS and sources.

The risk of getting chased by Amiga Inc. or even Haage & Partner is rather low, I suspect. The risk of getting a "stop doing that, or else ..." from Hyperion and/or Cloanto a little higher. The risk of getting chased around on the web, being banned from certain sites, mailed and harassed by their volunteering crowd of henchmen, though, is rather high. Whether any of them actually have legal grounds to stand on for harassing people over this is an interesting question.

It is very strange what is happening right now: the announcement of Hyperion, the website AMIGA.COM, the false announcement COMMODORE USA ...

Nah, it's same old same old, really :laughing:

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Unless you're selling it for a profit, what's the problem?

Nothing illegal about selling stickers for a profit. Stickers meant to be glued onto EPROMs. Heck, they even bothered to put information about copyrights info on the stickers, about who they think are the owners of the content of the EPROMs. Great stickers!