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Re: Legal Status of Amiga Clones (past and present)
« on: January 09, 2009, 08:29:41 PM »
>kickstart
yup - you're right

>The Amiga custom chipset,
well, you cannot "copy" the chips, but as far as I understand you are free to reverse engineer them. E.g. without "looking" you can design chips that do the exact same job with the exact same pin-layout.

>68000
nop, Motorola still owns that design (and frankly... rev.eng is simply not worth it here)

>burn KS roms
yes/no... as I see it: if you have an Amiga 3.1 rom chip legally aquired, then you are allowed to burn a copy (with extra stuff) as long as you ONLY use either the original rom OR the new one in ONE machine.

Just my £0.02
Tom UK
2000/2060/128mb/2320/2gb/C64-3D/Hydra-Aminet on OS 3.9

c128/1541/1750/1351 with Dolphin Dos and eprom burner