[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

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Please stop making your own history. HAM8 modes are/were quite slow, and it was far from (quite) common to use them for anything else than showing images.

Pretty sure I used this back in the 90's

http://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/WBHacksAGA

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If the driver implements the P96 API, the problem remains - no license. If it only uses CGfx, I guess they'll have to deal with whether or not this is a legitimate option for CGfx. The latter I do not know. For P96, the situation is quite clear: No license, not legal.

The current P96 driver is one thing(Though TBH you cannot say what Jason based his design on.  I'm sure I could ask and give you his answer.)... the future AROS driver is a completely different story as it is to be based on the AROS hidd design.

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Doesn't P96 implement the CGFX API too?

Did a lawyer who specialises in Western Intellectual Property law tell you that this is illegal or is it just your opinion as a lay person?

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Yes it does therefore P96 is illegal and should not be used period.
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I don't *care* for AROS or CGfx. That's why I said "they probably need to check with the CGfx authors". Is this a wrong statement? No.


Wait a minute! Just because my software isn't your flavour of "free", you call that "lack of cooperation"? Actually, there have been quite some cooperation in the Amiga land from my side. Look at MuForce, for example. This thing wouldn't have come to life without cooperation with Mike Sinz.

Os 3.9 wouldn't have come to life without cooperation with Haage and Partner, and people like Olaf Barthel.


Then that's reluctant to know for AROS and Gunnar's team. I never stated the opposite. I just said "it needs to be clarified".

Actually the cooperation that an AROS developer got from Hyperion was something like this.   Sure we'll do the AHCI driver for Hyperion any way you could help us with what we need for reaction?  response  "I'll email you tomorrow" ... silence.  and that is why the AHCI driver had to be worked on by someone else.

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I don't know what he did or not did, but one may wonder where the API docs came from. Such information is not on file or on github. It's at least a pretty questionable practise.

A quote from Jason...

Well, _I_ didn't get the SDK from Toni nor Cloanto.

and

I would be willing to itemize where I got every line from, if need be.

As a personal friend of mine I take offense to your questioning his ethics.

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Give him a little rest. Thomas wrote the first vampire/apollo RTG driver hoping that the whole project would go the route he favours. His work seems now to have been done in vain because it was replaced by a second driver. I can understand this doesn't feel good. And the new driver was written in such a short time (I'm still awed) that I can also understand that somebody who didn't witness its progress would wonder about whether this could be done without peeking at some illegitimate resource.

Just a few hours ago Jason asked when he will finally get the SDcard hardware documentation. He brought it up only yesterday and I wonder whether BigGun & Co can deliver fast enough to keep him happy. If they do, we can probably expect the Sdcard driver by the end of the week... :lol:

It's such a pity for us that his interests have moved away from AROS/Amiga. Just imagine what he could do if this was his main project.

His sugar printer is pretty impressive too.   But yes Jason's work and speed is very impressive(3 days for the RTG driver).

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I cannot be that a closed source project operates on the back of open source developers. It's not a fair trade.

You are correct... Therefore AOS4 should be opensourced and so should AOS 3.5 and 3.9.