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Offline Franko

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Re: Amiga workbench
« on: May 02, 2011, 03:05:40 AM »
Nah... on OS1.3 and 2.x as far as I remember basic functions like Dir, Copy etc... were on the floppy and not in the ROMS... :)

Darrins right, tons of commercial software came with such files (ie:part of WorkBench including libraries) on them and no-one ever complained back then even when Commodore was still alive. I think these days it's just down to armchair copyright lawyer wannabes trying to find something to moan about... ;)

Look's like this thread could be another long drawn out affair on the subject of copyright so methinks I'll just bow out now and say... I don't care anymore... :)
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Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2011, 09:12:44 PM »
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So this is it? Amiga.org has become a forum for thiefs and naysayers?


Well it is an Amiga site and by default nearly 25 years of thieves and naysayers (being the Amiga way of things) it hasn't "become" it always has been and it's only that you've just noticed it... :)
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Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2011, 09:16:33 PM »
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This actually takes me back to the 90's and I'm thinking of CUCD's and AFCD's (Amiga Format & CU Amiga).  They were bootable and contained Workbench in its entirety from what I can remember.  From memory, you could create a whole Workbech 3.1 system if you wanted to...and that's one way I upgraded my Workbench files - I just copied later versions of libraries and other system files from CU Cd's over to my 3.0 system to upgrade it.  I'm sure I wasn't alone in doing that.
I wonder if those magazines had to foot the bill to do this?


It states quite clearly on the old AF & CU CDs that the Workbench sets on them were only there under licence... :)
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Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2011, 03:26:08 AM »
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Holy crap!  So Petro actually gave OS 3.0 to the Amiga community!  What a guy!


That's one of the reasons I don't get what the copyright mafia on this site rattle their gums about, they seem to conveniently forget about things like the old AF Coverdisk CDs where the stuff was released free into the wild many moons ago.. ;)

Methinks they just like a good moan even more than me... :)
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Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2011, 04:08:01 AM »
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Not entirely true. Relokick will only patch those parts of the kickstart that causes problems with old games (this actually means that a hybrid kickstart is used). Relokick is useless without there being a real 2.0 (or higher) kickstart present, and it can't be used directly as a kickstart ROM in (win)uae for example. But you are right, Relokick was given away for free on various magazine cover disks, and this was with the blessings from Commodore.


Hmm... odd I use ReloKick1.3 quite often but not with the ROM image that came with it on the CUAmiga coverdisk CD but with a real 1.3 ROM image captured using GrabKick... :)

Perhaps your talking about ReloKick1.4 which came with a modified 1.3 ROM Image file... :confused:
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