Where are all the Minimigs?

[itix]

It is a translation of the copyrighted & published work "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual", English to Verilog.

Ehh? Is this new Hermanism?

[itix]

The design is described in detail in the HRM, it has numeric constant values, state machines, timing diagrams etc. The author has said that he converted this documentation into what became MiniMig.

But then WinUAE would be illegal too. And so would be AROS and MorphOS. AROS is Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual translated to C ;-)

Minimig is completely legal product as long as it does not violate Amiga patents and is not shipped with illegal copies of copyrighted material. That means they can not ship Minimig with the original Kickstart ROM without license from Amiga Inc but they could ship Minimig with Kickstart ROM clone instead (if there was any).

I was just trying to offer one possible explaination as to "Where are all the MiniMig's?" and why no company had picked up the manufacture, the point of this thread

I think real problem is funding and marketing. Especially marketing because Minimig can not be labeled as Amiga unless Amiga Inc loses its trademarks.

[itix]

alexh wrote:

itix wrote:
But then WinUAE would be illegal too. And so would be AROS and MorphOS. AROS is Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manual translated to C ;-)

Heh, yeah maybe ;-) But if you were the company considering manufacturing them would you take the word of anyone who wasnt a qualified techie lawyer? Me neither.

I would not take the word of anyone, especially not from the Internet, saying that manufacturing them would be illegal.

I rather would check it from online resource, i.e. www.finlex.fi in my case. If I suspected there could be some problems I would check if such case has been in the court already.

You dont have to be a lawyer to understand it. Understanding legal terms will help, though.

Like I said before, if no-one at Amiga Inc. cared about the classic then there would be no problem. However they have a track record of trying to milk their ownership of Amiga for everything they can.

I know they milked Amiga users with their Amiga DE scam but it was many years ago.