DENEB various small issues

[Trev]

I ordered a Deneb from AmigaKit yesterday, so I now feel entitled to my two cents worth of commentary. ;-)

Regarding Installer: The Installer executable is freely distributable pursuant to the terms in Installer.license and Germany's current export laws. (Has any incarnation of Amiga ever revoked that license?) Apart from storage limitations (Installer is huge!), it seems reasonable to include it with any installation that requires it. That's the most user-friendly approach, obviously.

Regarding MUI: C'est la vie. MUI is a near de facto standard with the unfortunate property of having an acronym that's the same as one used by Microsoft, although I gather SASG used it first. Hopefully, the Deneb documentation directs the end user to http://www.sasg.com/mui or another appropriate location. I don't have MUI installed at the moment, but I suppose now's the time to get it done.

I once commented on the total cost of ownership of an Amiga system, including registration charges for the most commonly used system and user applications. It's a bit ludicrous. ;-)

I'm looking forward to receiving my Deneb. (I also joked about choosing a new nVidia display adapter over a Deneb. I guess I needed both of them.) It's replacing my Kickflash, which unfortunatley, doesn't support the MAPROM feature on the Blizzard 1260.

[Trev]

@quenthal

Mine just goes into a reset loop when trying to use ROM remapping. Jens told me Coyote Flux didn't have a Blizzard 1260 for testing, which is understandable given the Kickflash's original target market of Amiga OS 4 users with Blizzard/Cyberstorm PPC accelerators. Changes in Amiga Inc.'s plans for a new Kickstart ROM obviously left Jens in a difficult marketing position.

I'll probably keep it around for testing clockport software, but if anyone needs or wants a Kickflash, I might be interested in a trade (no cash) of some sort.

@amigakit

Awesome.

[Trev]

@mboehmer_e3b

Wuha... ever ordered something in US? Never?
I ordered some schottky diodes there, and was asked by a phone call half an hour later if I planned to bring down the US government using these diodes... (for god's sake, I didn't tell them that I studied nuclear physics, who knows what would have happened then...).
So, if you feel like moaning about German laws, then start with the Stiftung EAR or the GEZ issue, that's really unique in the world :-/

Diodes? You should have told them you were building energy efficient mind control devices. You could have made millions of dollars as a US government contractor.

I was just paraphrasing from the Installer license agreement, which was written by Escom. My point was that anyone can distribute the Installer executable with their Installer scripts, assuming there is enough space on the installation media. :-)

I live in the US, so I have not had difficulty ordering electronics from US companies. ;-) I have had problems with US customs holding up hardware that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft consider questionable. (*sigh* I miss liksang.com.) I understand your point, though. We are a bit draconian with regard to electronics exports.

FedEx tells me I will receive my Deneb tomorrow morning. As long as customs doesn't think I'll be using it to write homebrew Gameboy software, it should arrive on time.

Trev