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manuals, schematics, etc.
« on: August 23, 2004, 05:30:46 PM »
Why do we have to "reverse engineer" or scan all the Amiga hardware and manuals? Commodore must have had it in electronic form. They should give it away, because we all spend so much money on Amiga. :-o
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Re: manuals, schematics, etc.
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2004, 07:33:52 PM »
Someone purchased the rights to these things, and it is their right to do something or not with it. Believe it or not, we do not spend very much money on Amiga. There's not many of us left to make anyone rich and truely deserve free things in return from those who we have made rich.

You'd have to figure out who owns the copyrights now and request them to release this information publically. They may not read these web site discussions.

Besides, whatever electronic format this data was stored in may not be usable to us. We don't know what tool or file format was used... It'd be wicked cool to have pdf files for them all, but it was probably not done in pdf format. I've wished for an A4000T (Escon/Quikpak style) service manual for years, but now have an AmigaOne to distract me... I don't expect to see any manuals for it either, there's not much to play with on this board. And no PC motherboards have schematics available, fixing a busted motherboard means to replace it these days... No fun.
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