MorphOS Developer
Posts: 1516 from 2003/2/24
From: Finland
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johey wrote:
MOS applies enforced restrictions while AOS does it by having parts of the OS in hardware ROM chips. That's completely different. You can still use your old Workbench disks from your A500 on another A500 or even an A1200 with another kickstart if you like.
To be pedantic the operating system is not on Workbench disks.
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You can also rip your ROM from one computer and use it either by soft kicking or program it into a ROM chip, without enforced restrictions like with MOS (although in some circumstances you might violate the EULA by doing it).
You can do that but you are not allowed to use ROM copy simultaneously with the original ROM. If you had ten Amiga 1200s (lets say, in a school, Amiga was used in elementary schools even in late 90s here in Finland) you would still have to buy 10 copies if you were upgrading to 3.1/3.5/3.9.
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Practically it has a big effect on emulation/virtualization. As you know there is no problem to run multiple instances of Amiga emulators on one machine with a completely different architecture. You can actually do it legally as well via Amiga Forever.
When you buy Amiga Forever you buy another set of Kickstart ROMs with it.
1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
