New Kickstart 3.9.1 68k on the way

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

With no downloads available, I dont see a reason to update or even test something that I cannot even lay my hands upon.

From his website:

"Update :
I just saw some %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!ers sell my hard work on EAB,

so no more release here."

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[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I want a fully system ready at power on. No more SetPatch, no more boring and slow loading on HD or CF. The goal is like the old computers : Oric, Amstrad, Atari ST...

A noble goal.  I missed that when I went from C64 to Amiga.  We've all just gotten used to requiring a disk to boot with "modern" computers.

TBH, a lot of these things get updated frequently, however.  A new version of icon.library was just released two days ago.  It's going to be hard to keep current, if you want "the latest and greatest" in your ROM.

TLSFmem would be fantastic, good luck!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's true that back in the day I ran Kickstart 3.0 from an A1200 on an A500 with a phase vi 14mhz 68000 (I didn't try 3.1 as I bought the a500 upgrade). It's true that they cherry picked different releases for each platform based on which worked at the time they submitted the 3.1 roms to manufacturing (I'm sure that years ago there was an description written by someone at commodore about why they picked each one). it's true that they could have produced one that worked in them all if there was a financial reason to.

I assume you mean you soft-kicked this, because I don't see how you would've gotten the two ROM's from an A1200 to fit in the one socket on an A500.  

3.1 was released after C= went bankrupt.  I think it was by Village Tronic.

I'm dubious of how much "020 optimization" went into any of these releases.  Think that was more on the Workbench software side, than in the ROM's?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is he making a profit off it somehow?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@Cosmos

can you please clarify whether you are merely distributing patches to commercial software or the commercial software itself already patched? if the former that's one thing, but if you're actually distributing components like exec.library and so forth, that is illegal. period.

-- eliyahu

I must have a half dozen of his patches on my system.  Every single one has been just the patch file, and required a copy of the original file to work.  I've also got some of @Thomas Richter's stuff on my system, as well.  With the way these two go at it, it's a wonder my Amiga hasn't exploded!  

You guys are making a mountain out of a molehill, here, IMHO.  Bunch of cranky old men arguing about copyright law for long-dead software.  Life is too short!  :furious:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You can't sell it, you cannot sell derivate works, you're basically reduced to bootlegging.

Who's selling anything here? As Cosmos has stated multiple times, all his patches are free to download. He only pulled them recently because (as the quote on his website said, anyway) someone else was selling them over on EAB.

Hell, I've been downloading his patches for years. After all this kerfluffle, I feel like I should probably send the guy a donation or something, LOL.

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 IMHO it's because of all of this public slagging that developers get fed up and leave our community. So, a round of applause, everyone. Good job!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

http://youtu.be/unqY2QD8uq8

No idea what's going on in that video.  You'd think with as smart as Amiga users are, they'd be able to figure out how to upload a video in higher than 240p resolution?  Also it's from 2010.  Oh well, if you can read anything on that screen you must have younger eyes than mine, and good luck with the project!