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- From: laurie@lknight.demon.co.uk (Laurie Knight)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: v1.3 ROM copying illegal? (was Re: kickstart 512k rom image (copy wanted))
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:40:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1588.6626T1217T2671@lknight.demon.co.uk>
- References: <312914DE.27BE@cs.duke.edu> <4ge9lm$67k@daily-planet.execpc.com>
- <4gf610$9cl@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4gg9dk$r3j@serpens.rhein.de> <4ghpkv$600@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
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- >In article <4gg9dk$r3j@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de says...
- >>>I belive Commodore gave their permission for the version 1.3 (and below)
- >>>ROM image to be distributed freely, for use with downgraders. Am I right?
- >>
- >>You are not right.
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- >Are you sure? I remember (vaguley) reading in Amiga Format or CU Amiga, AGES
- > AGO, that using the 1.3 ROM for degrading (or something) was ok - it might
- >have been Commodore UK who originally said so?
-
- I think you are right, there are plenty of degraders about and one of them
- (Kick1.4 strangely enough) contains a snapshot of the 1.3 rom image, Plenty of
- pd libraries in the UK carried this disk, I assume they still sell it. I dont
- check out pd ads now I have net access. ;)
-
- >And what is copying a 1.3 rom going to do to Amiga sales? I hardly expect
- >this to affect Amiga1200/4000s..... ;) Perhaps someone should find-out from
- >Amiga Technologies what their stance is? I've got no idea what address &
- >who to ask is.
- >If anything, degrading the machine to 1.3 will allow MORE people to buy & use
- > old (nostalgic?) games/software/etc.. Emulating 1.3 is still very useful in
- > this day & age - the ZeeWolf 2 demo, for instance, will not run on my
- >A1200/`030 any other way at all.
-
- >Can you still BUY a kickstart 1.3 rom? Seems unlikely.. If so, what do they
- > cost?
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- I think I have seen these for sale for 8ukp
-
- Take care.
-
- Laurie.
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- Laurie Knight \ Amiga A3000, Kickstart3.1, 10Mb Ram, 1Gb Scsi HD
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