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From: cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton)
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Subject: Re: Amiga portable
Keywords: I need a portable
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Date: 27 May 91 15:37:52 GMT
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In article <2468@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> force@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (Jason Henry Den Dulk) writes:
>>
>> Care to comment as to what KIND of legal problem?
>> 
>I can't be sure, but it's a good bet that it has to do with copyright/patent
>violations.
>

I knew a guy who had made a portable Amiga 2000, (It was a HUGE portable), but
he got heat from commodore...  It wasn't copyright or patent problems, because
he used STOCK Amiga 2000's to make his portable, therefore he owned the machine
and could do what he wanted with it. (Throw it off a bridge if you want to, but
who would!)  Something about how they might do it one day, and they didn't want
any inferior things on the market... (He wired it up to have more ports, and
some other neat stuff...)  Anything of this sort, where you use the original
components, can be classified as an addon, of enhancment, which 3rd parties
are free to make.  Look at Bodega Bay, and the A1500 case.  These are basically
the same thing as making a portable Amiga.  Problem is that no one has been
able to do it using, stock Amiga computers, and make it small, and useable.
The one I am talking about was from Micro Momentum, about 3 or 4 years ago.
(This baby was HUGE!!!)

Christopher Walton
cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu