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Re: Hypothetical Kickstart ideas
« on: May 11, 2009, 05:06:52 AM »
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Doesn't the AmigaOS license explicitly prohibit even clean reverse engineering?

It doesn't matter what M$ lawyers says, a contract enacted when you open the box where the install media of an operative system is packaged is not a binding contract.

Also, I rememeber the #$%& DMCA has a clause that allows reverse engeniering of hardware that is no longer produced and guess what, it has been more than a decade since an amiga with a kickstart rom was last manufactured.
 

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Re: Hypothetical Kickstart ideas
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 09:14:18 PM »
If I remember correctly Dragon's Lair for the Amiga 1000 had it's own kickstart as a mean to save precious ram.
 

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Re: Hypothetical Kickstart ideas
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 11:37:39 PM »
@save2600

Rembeber that the amiga 1000 (as well as early 3000s) loaded the kickstart into ram, they did not had roms built in the motherboard.