Has Clone-A died?

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Can't he talk directly to Gateway, Inc ?

Besides if ACube can deliver complete clones. Then Jens ought to be able to deliver chip clones?

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I was talking pure HW

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A legal "hack" could be to setup a liability limited company that violates the copyright on the AmigaOS 2.x on record. Then see who will sue and challenge in court to have them prove their legal ownership. If no one sues, then statute of limitations should make the case expire and subsequent cases void.

Another approch is to write to the Copyright office and ask for any information regarding the chain of title.

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In particular Clone-A shoud provide a path to repair broken A500:s with pre-programmed CPLD/FPGAs.

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"but I'd love to know what things hook to what FPGA pins" easily fixed with a core that toggles them on command from a serial line (rs232//usb) and a oscilloscope

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Maybe Jens or someone else could simply buy Amiga Inc and get things in order that way?
Or maybe we have to wait until McEven (McOddbal?) gets even more desperate?

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Ok, So it's work in progress and there will be annoucement when it's done. It's not aimed at nichemarkets like NatAmi and FPGA Arcade. And will attract new developers.

So it ought to be a more general solution that make it attractive for developers.

Question is if it's worth waiting for a product with an unknown release date, uknown price, and unknown functionality.

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If Amiga want's to be on the edge. It better have memory protection. And something else that make it worthwhile to ditch an Intel core CPU at Gigahertz with Gigabytes of DRAM. And of course I/O interfaces to match like PCI-express.

I know the Intel architecture sucks rotten horse eggs (little endian, segments, cpuid, bus smartness). But instructions per second per dollar, it's hard to beat. And should one for example want to run an FPGA synthesiz. That software is x86 only asfaik.