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derriz | 2 months ago

What puts me off the Amiga scene is how little of the 30 or 40 year old software has been released into the public domain.

I have no issue with charging for new software for retro platforms in order to support the scene but find it slightly offensive that you have to pay to acquire a legal 1.3 kickstart ROM - released and unchanged since 1988. It just feels like copyright squatting.

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sgt|2 months ago

Yeah but that's probably because the legal blocks are a bit complicated. Most people just pirate it, I'd assume. I find all that stuff on torrents if I need.