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Offline Cymric

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No. The only ones allowed to distribute the ROM code are the owners of the IP. No end user with an Amiga is the IP owner, so what you'd effectively be doing is mass piracy. Bad, bad, bad.

I do hope, however, that the current owners of said IP will eventually open up the code to the public in another five to ten years or so, to sites like The Underdogs, or Back 2 The Roots. These play an important role in collecting and preserving some of the best games and programs ever made for the small home computers, so why not add ROM code to those?
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