What makes a real Amiga ?

[Amiga_Nut]

The link you provided contains neither a "legal emulation" page nor a description of a real Amiga.

A real Amiga in the context of classic Amiga systems ........ You could very well include an upgraded CDTV/CD32 or Amiga 1000 in there as well.

I don't understand this comment.

I don't count a keyboard, mouse and floppy drive an 'upgrade' for CD32, this configuration will run A1200 games I would guess. Also 256kb chipram cartridges were practically given away with A1000s to get them more or less up to 512kb internally.

Also on a side note.....why do you need to transfer your own specific ROM manually? If you own the machine and somebody else has already done the tricky bit, why force yourself to go through it again when the result will be an identical ROM file for UAE?

[Amiga_Nut]

why were there 'clone' Amiga's made??? always loved that term in the early 90's..'hey man is that an IBM PC or a clone??'

I presume you mean no clone Amigas?

1. Commodore didn't licence the chipset.
2. Reverse engineering Agnus/Denise/Paula was not cost effective.

Only simple machines have pirated clones usually, like the Hong Kong Apple II machines costing 2/3 to 1/2 the price of the real thing.

PC being cloned never helped IBM's fortunes, Microsoft were the only winners in that situation with DOS/Windows.