Amiga Inc AGA patents?

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Amiga Inc never held any Amigs patents, Gateway (now acer) did, I don't think there was sufficient change to the original chipset to warrent anything patentable in the AGA chipset (AGA is just a slight improvement to the Amiga design), and the last Amiga patent to expire was one relating to the right mouse button... And that went a few years ago.

Amiga technology is just a pretty exhibit in the history of computing.

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I can't see how anything in the AGA chipset is patentable, it is built using the 1983 patents of the OCS... There was no new technology in there.

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little wrote:
Maybe the akiko chip is where all the patents were? Has anyone looked for akiko in the patent database?

AKIKO is nothing special, and little more than a last ditch attempt by the engineers to cover for the fact Commodore wouldn't put a decent CPU + Fastmem in the A1200...

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There are a lot of posts online of people running aros68k in uae in 2012.

Yeah, it's quite usable now... I was running the early alphas put out by Toni and Jason even earlier than that.

I'm referring to the AROS implementation of graphics.library, HID is the AROS device interface. By designed for VGA, I mean an actual VGA card sitting in a PC and not the 60hz/31khz video output that it produces.

Yeah, the AROS 68k Amiga Graphics Chipset drivers lack any optimisation, so it is slow at the moment without a gfx card.

But most games only need AmigaOS/AROS to boot and configure the machine making AROS 68k rather useful for running games

Toni includes an AROS Kickstart ROM with WinUAE as a fallback option for people without an original Kickstart ROM image!

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I think it's a bit of a waste if AROS is just used for that though.

I agree, and if you have a gfx card (or when AROS gets a decent AGA driver), then it's the way to go over the original AmigaOS IMO.