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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Version 1.3 is out!
Message-ID: <1195@agora.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 18:32:53 GMT
References: <3274@hubcap.UUCP:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <3274@hubcap.UUCP:, by rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux):
: 
: If anyone has access to an eprom burner, eproms can be made from the kickstart
: disk.  There is a program floating around that reads the write control store
: and makes a file that you can send to an eprom programmer.  You need access to
: an amiga 1000 to use this program but I'm sure you could probably also read
: it from the kickstart disk itself.  The 64k eproms are about $10 dollars and
: you need four of them so this may or may not be more expensive than the roms
: from commadore.  However, you can use the same eproms when kickstart 1.4
: is released.
: 
	Of course, this doesn't help the people who have 500s or 2000s. The ROMs
in those machines are real 16 bit wide ROMs, 40 pin packages. Not EPROM 
compatible. 

: Although this sounds like pirating, my justification is that since I believe 
: the kickstart disks are freely distributable, or at least I am allowed to make
: as many copies for my own personal use as I want, copying it to eprom is
: really no different than copying it to another disk.
: 
	I belive that as long as you've bought the 1.3 enhance pack, you own the
right to use kickstart in your machine. If you prefer to have it in ROM, you can
burn ROMs for your personal use. You may *not* burn a set for your buddy who
hasn't bought the enhancer pack yet though! The Kickstart is copyrighted by
Commodore, not PD or distributable.

: Rich Champeaux
: Clemson University
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