Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
by rasz on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:39PM
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Their Amiga emulator lasted 2-3 weeks before they pulled it offline, probably due to legal issues.
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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
by floatboth on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:45AM
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The Amiga world is massively more copyright-happy than e.g. Apple.
There was a legal dispute around OS 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_AmigaOS_4_dispu...
MorphOS, the popular AmigaOS clone, is also proprietary and "the price is 79 EUR for one laptop or desktop computer" (lol that's more expensive than an iBook G4 you can run it on)
The accepted way to run emulators is https://www.amigaforever.com ($$$), using pirated ROMs is very discouraged by the community.
Aminet only hosts freeware/shareware/FOSS!
Meanwhile, Macintosh Garden hosts pretty much everything for Mac OS 9 and earlier (and some things for OS X PowerPC too). You can get all OS 9 versions of Photoshop. MS Office. Baldur's Gate. Fallout 2. And Mac OS itself.
Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
by gbraad on Monday April 17, 2017 @10:01AM
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The situation with the Amiga emulation was more related to compatibility issues. When I tested about 100 images, only about 15 worked properly. This was related to configuration issues, but also due to the use of the free Aros ROMs. Most software resulted in s Guru Meditation error. At the moment, the real kickstart ROMs are distributed/licensed by Cloanto and not available for online distribution. But ad mentioned, it likely wasn't a legal issue why they took it offline... It wasn't mature enough.