Classic Amiga patents...

[itix]

There must be some... I looked into C= patents some years ago and there was all kind of weird stuff... I recall some of them were patented in 1985 or so. Mostly (now useless) HW related stuff but some patents regarding the Intuition too.

[Kronos]

@SKAN
And when did that someone try it ?

I mean roll back a few years and the same could have been said bout the C64, but the C=1 "exists" for roughly 3 years, and is much more powerfull than a C64.

So yes it is (or soon will be) possible to recreate OCS/AA with some sort of programmable chips.

I just don't see who could do it.....

[SKAN]

@kronos

Mik Tinker...
...but I guess Xilinx FPGAs are far better now...

[Chas916]

I did a search at the US Pattent Office website and found 17 pattents registered to Commodore Business Machines. I grabbed one of those and it was submitted in 1988

United States Patent      5,088,035
Gardei ,   et al.    February 11, 1992
System for accelerating execution of program instructions by a microprocessor

I didn't see any patents for datatypes though.

[Chas916]

I also found some pattents for Commodore-Amiga Inc files by RJ Mical.

I'm not sure Apple would like this Patent:

United States Patent      4,772,882
Mical    September 20, 1988
Cursor controller user interface system

Abstract

Menu item selection is performed in a personal computer system through the use of a mouse device which has means to allow the user to call up onto the display a header block which performs the function of the menu bar and to erase the header block from the screen when menu operations are not required. Multiple menu items can be selected during the same menu session by using a pair of mouse buttons to generate a sequence of selection commands which are utilized by unique system software to accumulate plural item selections without terminating the menu operation.

[AccyD]

Chas916 wrote:
I'm not sure Apple would like this Patent:

Why not?

The Mac has only one mouse button, and as the extract from the patent states, it requires two mouse buttons.

[Orjan]

So in other terms, one would need a "stereo" mouse?  :lol:

[whabang]

The Mac has only one mouse button,

Because the patent for the two-button mouse was an amiga-patent. IIRC, this was the real reason why GW bought Amiga.

[AccyD]

Seems an expensive way of obtaining a GUI which is / was superceded in its implementation, surely they could simply have bought the patent at a fire sale or modified their implementation sufficiently to circumvent the patent regulations (as most other companies do)?