Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
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vox wrote:
a) WORKBENCH AS TRADEMARK NAME: Workbench was and is a GUI name, as in LoadWB command.
IMHO this looking at "Workbench" as merely some kind of GUI/Window Manager first happened when alternative GUI's first made the scene on Amiga's, and was emphasized even more when the three "3.1" forks/alternatives emerged on other HW platforms.
Originally however, Workbench was more than just a "GUI", it was all parts of the operating system that was not inside the Kickstart. Or am I wrong? And originally, this was actually the official name of the operating system for Amiga's, and one of the points with this thread is, that now it is *again*!
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b)LEGAL EMULATION THING
Hereby, I am also saying licensing legal KS/WB packs for emulation packages was something Cloanto/Hyperion/AmigaInc
Cloanto could, as they apparently are the sole owners of every aspect of
the operating system for Amiga's, the
Workbench. Hyperion doesn't own this, and neither does Amiga Inc.
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could make a revenue earlier for smaller fee (meaning not just Amiga Forever but AmiKit, FSUAE, WinUAE, EUAE as complete packages). They would do better and we would have easier packages and less piracy.
AmiKit, AmigaSYS and AROS 68k is already available (and pre-configured) from the Amiga Forever 6 package (along with the usual systems). At least in the "Plus Edition".
And Cloanto could bundle the emulator, the needed OS parts, and any licensed game together, and make it available as a one-file download from the web. If Cloanto did it, it wouldn't be piracy at all.
Something like this: http://thecompany.pl
MorphOS is Amiga
done right! MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!
