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Offline Gulliver

Re: Amiga workbench
« on: May 03, 2011, 01:40:08 AM »
My 2 cents:

If you just take a peek at the last two or three Amiga Format coverdisk CD-Roms, you will find a fully legal set of Workbench 3.0 floppy images, authorized by uncle Petro for free distribution and use.
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Quote from Amiga Format CD #51:  AFCD51/+System+/Tools/Workbench/Workbench 3.x/AF_Readme

Here are the DMS archives for the complete Workbench 3.0, in case you haven't
got an install disk, or you corrupt your originals. We can't put later versions
on because we'd need a licence to do so, but Petro Tyschtschenko has given us
permission to include this version of AmigaOS on all AFCDs from now on.

To extract the files, simply have a stack of six disks at the ready for
insertion into df0: (or whichever drive you've set up in AFCDPrefs) and then
double click on the DMS archive icons.
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Files on Amiga Format CD #51:  AFCD51/+System+/Tools/Workbench/Workbench 3.x/

Install.dms
Workbench.dms
Locale.dms
Fonts.dms
Extras.dms
Storage.dms
OS3.1_BoingBag1.lzx
AF_Readme
« Last Edit: May 03, 2011, 02:13:55 AM by Gulliver »
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2011, 09:03:07 AM »
Quote from: Bamiga2002;635033
Would that be a pack that updates WB3.0 to WB3.1 perhaps? That would mean there is a free WB 3.1 available *legally* ...

From what I remember, it was a wrongly named AmigaOS 3.5 BoingBag 1 archive
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2011, 03:12:07 AM »
Another thing to notice:

Historically speaking, whenever you bought a real Amiga, it ALWAYS came with a set of AmigaOS floppies, maybe not the latest ones corresponding to that specific kickstart though. The point is, that Amigas were always sold with its OS, so if you have a real Amiga, you are always entitled to legally obtain its corresponding AmigaOS disk set without paying any royalties whatsoever for that specific machine. Unless, of course, you wanted the copying service, and nicely labeled floppies, from withing CBM/Escom and then you had to pay for that, but that its obvious.

Furthermore, if you see it from another perspective, whenever you acquired legit Amiga kickstart roms and or complete systems you always had the core/kernel of the AmigaOS built inside those roms. So in the end, this way, you were/are always entitled to freely and legally obtain its corresponding distribution media.
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2011, 04:03:27 AM »
Quote from: PanterHZ;635573
I don't think there exists a freeware alternative to the LoadWB command, so that rules out Workbench. But there is a free command line alternative called ZShell which has the most basic CLI commands built in, it isn't 100% AmigaDOS compatible though. I seem to remember that somebody already have created a boot disk that is based on ZShell.
Anyway, you can find it here: http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/ZShell
.

You are wrong :)
This is a freeware loadwb command, you even have the sourcecode of it and it works great. http://aminet.net/util/sys/MSys-1.2.lha

BTW, I already built sometime ago a kind of "FreeWBench" with free alternatives. If interested, I will search for it in my stack of backup floppies and upload it.
« Last Edit: May 05, 2011, 04:08:03 AM by Gulliver »